Hello Peach:

If you really feel like you've been victimized/scammed, don't stand for it.

If you paid with a credit card, you can dispute the charges and usually prevail. The key is to be aggressive and get a paper trail started. DON'T PROCRASTINATE. Over the years I've made credit card companies eat all kinds of charges and/or backcharge merchant/scammers.

You can usually dispute charges with your phone company too. Start the paperwork and get the charges into dispute resolution. That will get you several weeks to settle. Typically you can offer a reasonable amount and most carriers will take it and backcharge the scammer.

You really have nothing to lose... And maybe if more of us reject being victimized we can put these Telescammers out of business.