Jack Nicolas received a $27,000 phone bill last November. And Most of the charges were for overseas calls he didn't make. See that's what gets me about technology today you know, that people will do that to others because they can. I mean why do you need to call overseas so much?

AT&T knew what was going when the bill was so high so they just waived their part of the bill for Jack but Verizon wireless said they couldn't do that because the situation was "out of our control" so they want their $14,000 from Nicolas.

Jack's attorney Doug Dufault said this about the whole ordeal, "Well, you've got a small business owner who is essentially being extorted by a large business". I think his words ring true pretty much and he said two ther people in Jack's neighborhood had similar problems with Verizon.

Personally, i think the Phreacker should go to prison, if he gets cought, of course, but then, perpahs he or she made this for revenge, perhaps a personal vendeta, i don't know.