back in 2003 I was living in oxford, michigan, and I didn’t have a cell phone. So, I went up town to the bank, got $500 out, and proceeded to go to my local cingular dealer where I bought a Nokia phone that was like $400, on a prepaid plan because i didn’t want to have any bills.

While signing up for the account, i made sure to use a fake name, so I picked out a spin on my name, Mike P. bailey, but I also gave them my actual address, in case anything important happened with the account, and they needed to contact me.

Well, this all went through, and the phone ended up breaking, with absolutely no support from nokia, so I just let the prepaid account go, and never touched it. Then after a couple more months, I started getting mail addressed to Mike P. Bailey at my house, credit card applications and such. I never got into any of that, and just threw away the mail whenever i got it.

In june of this year, I ended up moving away from michigan, and was still recieving mail. After a couple of months I realized this was still happening, so I called up AT&T who bought cingular some time ago, and asked if they could just delete the mike p. bailey account. During this call, I gave AT&T my actual wireless account info, because i already had an account with them for my iphone (which they’re fucking raping me with). Well, they told me they couldn’t delete the account, but they could put my information into their ‘do not send offers’ database. “Fine, super, thank you!” I said, and happily hung up.

And I did remain happy up until yesterday afternoon, when I recieved two credit card applications from capital one: one addressed to Paul M. bailey, and one for Mike P. Bailey.

It seems that AT&T not only lied to my face, but also violated my privacy. Isn’t this kind of illegal?