Thread: Internet fraud

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Wow.

I saw this on the news like 5 days ago. I guess you're one of the unlucky bastards who got hit with this.

Haha.

This company is actually smart, they only charge people 10 dollars, but they charge alot of people. most people wouldn't care enough about 10 bucks enough to call the credit card company so they just let it slide.

Kind of reminds me of the porno "scam" (which isnt really a scam): a company advertises a porno video, and people order the video. A week later, the "customers" get a letter saying that the company has gone out of business, and they were offered a full refund, with a genuine check, however the company name on the check is listed as "german teen foot licking fetish porno inc", so people are too embarassed to cash it, and forget about it.

yeah, they are pretty smart by charging a bunch of people only $10. in fact, some websites i read talking about the scam actually said some credit card companies will tell you that $10 is too small for them to worry about. i even thought about just letting it slide, but decided that I WANT MY $10 BACK, BASTARDS!! so i will be calling the bank when i get home from work.

Originally posted by kage23
yeah, they are pretty smart by charging a bunch of people only $10. in fact, some websites i read talking about the scam actually said some credit card companies will tell you that $10 is too small for them to worry about. i even thought about just letting it slide, but decided that I WANT MY $10 BACK, BASTARDS!! so i will be calling the bank when i get home from work.

Do you live in a boarding house or something? It's just $10 let it be..

Its on principal. I wouldnt just let it slide. Thats some bullshit right there.I wouldn't care if it was one dollar I'd be making a phone call.

Originally posted by MisterBubbles
It's just $10 let it be..

That $10 could be the difference between life and death.
Imagine that Kage is walking to a local shop with some loose change from the $10 to buy a milkyway. He puts the change in his shirt pocket, walks out of the house, then suddenly he sees a fireball streaming across the sky at 1583 miles an hour, heading straight for him. The meteor collides into Kage, but luckily some quarters in his shirt stop the rock from penetrating into his heart, saving his life. Without the $10 he could die! And we don't want that.

Anyway, Fraud is fraud, no matter the amount of money.

Originally posted by gameover
Its on principal. I wouldnt just let it slide. Thats some bullshit right there.I wouldn't care if it was one dollar I'd be making a phone call.

Amen! i didn't have time to call the bank last night, but i am definitely doing it today. this will not stand!

Imagine that Kage is walking to a local shop with some loose change from the $10 to buy a milkyway. He puts the change in his shirt pocket, walks out of the house, then suddenly he sees a fireball streaming across the sky at 1583 miles an hour, heading straight for him. The meteor collides into Kage, but luckily some quarters in his shirt stop the rock from penetrating into his heart, saving his life. Without the $10 he could die! And we don't want that.[/b]

plus, you just never know when something like this might happen.

but yeah, if a friend of mine borrowed $10 and never paid me back, i'd let it slide. but these bastards stole it from me! it's about the principle of the thing!

Why let $10 be?

So that the next shmuck can come along and get his $150 stolen from the same company, which still operates 5 years from now because all of the people that they stole $10 from just "let them be?"

Fuck that. If someone stole $10 from me, especially someone disguising themselves as a legitimate business, I'm not going to just sit there and take it like some patsy. Give'em hell, Kage.

Originally posted by pOOp
Kind of reminds me of the porno "scam" (which isnt really a scam): a company advertises a porno video, and people order the video. A week later, the "customers" get a letter saying that the company has gone out of business, and they were offered a full refund, with a genuine check, however the company name on the check is listed as "german teen foot licking fetish porno inc", so people are too embarassed to cash it, and forget about it.

Personal story? Hahha... j/k j/k.

$10? That's like 1 and a quarter hours of work for me! So that wouldn't just be stealing money, they'd be stealing my time.

i just checked my bank statement online and, although the $9.95 charge is still on there, there is now also a $9.95 credit.

HA!! TAKE THAT, KCSOFTLLC BASTARDS!!! :finger:

$10 turns into $44 if it causes you to have an overdraft

Kill them! I'm going online right now to check my account....

Originally posted by Seeker
$10 turns into $44 if it causes you to have an overdraft

yeah, luckily i had enough in my acct that losing $10 temporarily wasn't a big deal. but i would think that if you did have an overdraft, the bank should refund it, right?

so it's only a temporary victory against KCSOFTLLC. i got a letter from the bank yesterday in the mail explaining that the $9.95 credit they put on my account is only a temporary measure. it's there so i have full use of my funds while they continue their investigation, but if they find out it was NOT fraud (which they won't, since it WAS fraud), then i lose the money. so basically, they are still looking into it. it took me, like, 5 minutes to do a google search for the company name and find many other people who were frauded in the same way. i even included the urls of some relevant sites in the dispute report i sent to them! but i guess they have to be a little more thorough than that . . . oh well, i can wait, i guess.

Originally posted by pOOp
Kind of reminds me of the porno "scam" (which isnt really a scam): a company advertises a porno video, and people order the video. A week later, the "customers" get a letter saying that the company has gone out of business, and they were offered a full refund, with a genuine check, however the company name on the check is listed as "german teen foot licking fetish porno inc", so people are too embarassed to cash it, and forget about it.

haha what a sad, yet funny way to make money

people are either too lazy or too embarrassed to get their refund, so the fraudulant company keeps the dough

it's brilliant

My cousin got £2000 and stolen from his, he was lucky his bank refunded the money...

Originally posted by the real pieman
My cousin got £2000 and stolen from his, he was lucky his bank refunded the money...

shit! that makes me feel much better about being swindled out of $10, which i will get back anyway!