perhaps not in this particular case, but this is a great reason (among many) to keep those credit card numbers revolving. i "lose" my cards every 6 months. cc companies reissue lost/stolen cards with new numbers. automatic bill pay has caused more headache than cure for me, too. i've abandoned it completely. plus, in light of recent list notes on identity theft, it's definitely not a good idea. justin * -----Original Message----- From: Rich Rohrich [mailto:Rich_Rohrich@private] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 08´30 To: crime@private Subject: RE: CRIME Earthlink strikes again... Nope, Earthlink has been known to do the same thing. They took the same credit card information from Teleport/Onemain and used it to automatically renew (without my consent) a web site hosting service I had started with Teleport. I had aready moved the domain away from them and later found the charge on my bill. They wouldn't do a cancellation via email, and the wait times on the phone were in excess of an hour. I finally resorted to filing a complaint with the FTC and the Oregon Department of Justice to get my money back. >>> Seth Arnold <mailto:sarnold@private> 08/12/02 6:01 PM >>">sarnold@private> 08/12/02 6:01 PM >> (As a side note, teleport, who we originally had for our ISP service before mergers brought us to earthlink/mindspring, had no qualms about re-billing credit card information automatically when accounts expired without giving any advance warning that they were going to do so. Maybe this heinous practice has stopped with earlink/minkspring, maybe it hasn't.)
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