At 8/24/02 1:42 PM, Mike Allen wrote: >This sounds really fishy to me. Anyone have any advice as to where to go >from here on the order? I feel it is fraudulent, but I could be wrong and >would hate to loose the business. But as you all know, you have to be very >careful these days on registrations due to the crooks that are lurking the >net... Also, the first time we went to their domain registration site it >was up, and now it is no longer up (Blank HTML page) > >Any advice would be greatly appreciated...
You could contact your credit card company (your merchant bank) by phone and tell them you have a suspicious charge. You will be surprised how much they will help. When we do this, our merchant bank asks us for all the details of the charge, then puts us on hold, then calls the bank that issued the credit card and asks them about the account. The other bank looks up how closely the name and address information matches their records, how much activity there has been on the account recently, and so forth. They often spot unusual activity right then and close the account. Sometimes the other bank calls the cardholder to ask if it's a legitimate charge. In any case, they'll tell you whether they consider it suspicious. All this usually takes less than five minutes, even if the other bank is in some far corner of the world. ------------------------------------ Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
