Thanks for the advice, and I already asked that of my CC processor, but they said because it is a out of country card, they can send a request but it will take a day or 2 as the send the request by wire, and then they process it and send a response by wire... ;o) I am taking a chance here but I guess live and learn ;o) Since I was told you can not even suspend a .co.uk domain it makes me wonder why I should offer it from our site... We have been very lucky to date as I don't even know what our fee is for a CB but I hope this guy is okay and not a crook. If it turns out he is, I will most likely discontinue selling .co.uk because I don't like the idea of not being able to make the domain inoperative if their is a charge back... Know what I mean?
-- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net Need Advertising? Try DeerSearch.Com http://www.DeerSearch.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert L Mathews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "discuss-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 3:41 PM Subject: Re: Why me? > 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 >
