I have an automatic payment going out once every 28 days to Paradise.net.nz. I do know what I am doing.
Nut this is not the first time I have received this sort of dunning email, which is why I have taken my time in concluding it is probably fraudulent, since they have had three months already to clear it up. I paid $20.00 by Internet banking the second time I received such an email, into the same account that my automatic payments were going into; so it's apparently not my bank or the Paradise.net.nz bank account number that's at fault, since they recognized that Internet banking payment I made manually; but that leaves TelstraClear in arrears to me, not me to them. To wit, I am now two months ahead, not the single month ahead, in payments. I think I will contact them tomorrow, let them know either they sort it out pronto, or I go to the Police. It's not a case of a mere mistake when it's been going on for three or more months. Or if it is a "mere mistake", then perhaps the Commerce Commission and/or the Serious Fraud Office might like to get involved. And you wonder why people prefer to leave New Zealand for pastures that are to a minor extent, slightly greener? Wesley Parish On 30/09/2011, at 10:30 PM, yuri wrote: > On 30 September 2011 21:19, Wesley Parish wrote: >> Hi >> This email appears genuine. As it happens, I've checked my >> payments into the bank account number Paradise.net.nz gave me >> when i set up my account with them in 2002, and I've actually paid >> one month in advance. Should I go to the Police over this, or what? >> Wesley Parish > > How about just checking the terms and conditions of your Paradise > account. > I used to work for TelstraClear and I know that Paradise accounts are > on a four-weekly cycle (28 days) which means you actually need to make > 13 payments per year. > If you are paying monthly (which many people do when they set up their > automatic payments) then after a year you'll be one payment behind. > > If your Paradise service is part of a TelstraClear phone package, then > it is billed monthly, but Paradise on its own is four-weekly. > > It's been nearly 6 years since I left TelstraClear, so things may > have changed. > > Yuri de Groot > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
