Recently I was going through a closet and found my old notebook full of unpaid phone bills. This is a thick folder, containing thousands of dollars in fraudulent phone charges in other peoples' names that, for some reason, I thought would be a good idea to keep sitting around my house for nearly a decade. I've decided that it's time for this notebook to be thrown away. But first, I'm going to scan all the totals in and post them on this page to gloat about. It also lets you get a glimpse of what phone bills looked like in the mid-90's since so much has changed with phone companies since then. So enjoy! And if you've got a huge phone bill that you'd like to see on this page, send it to me!

This first one is a bill that's actually under my own name. It's from when I lived in Texas in 1995 and the PLA was just starting to get noticed. Throughout the bill there were lots of 900 number charges (from failed attempts at scamming free 900 calls via call forwarding), lots of calls to el_jefe, Greg Carson's home and work, EvilCal, the Defcon Voice Bridge, random numbers in Roy, New Mexico and lots of emergency operator inturrupting.

Here's one from a hotel I lived at in Portland, Oregon in 1994. They had the nerve to charge 25 cents for local and toll-free calls. But I put my calls to good use by dialing 1-800-CALL-ATT a lot and then dialing multiple free numbers from there.

A friend of mine in Austraila ran up a pretty good sized phone bill in 1994. I asked her if she would mail it to me so I could add it to my collection. It looks like she did a lot of calling to the States.

This one isn't a very impressive amount but I'm putting it in here because it's Nynex. It's from when I ordered a calling card for somebody and forwarded their bills to my PO Box so I could get the calling card.

This is an old picture I made for the PLA site where I took a bunch of scanned phone bills and pasted them all together.

The total on this bill was actually $15,599.29 but I don't have the final page for this one anymore. It took 3 months of 900 numbers, Alliance teleconferences, emergency inturrupting and letting friends 3rd party bill calls to my number to achieve this amount.

This is BostonJoe's phone bill. He asked PLA Forum members to help him run up the bill by billing 3rd party calls to the PLA voice bridge to him. But the real bulk of expensive calls came from the hours of 900 number porn lines that Joe called.

The following bill was submitted anonymously and not only shows a very impressive amount of $7,553.83 due, but a $49,803.96 credit from a previous $50,654.34 balance. The submitter didn't give us any insight on how their bill achieved these high numbers. Click on the bill for a larger view.