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Re: Version 4.12 order



Nathan,

Let me add my support to your warning about companies that keep
your credit cards on file. I can only say this happened to me.
I suspect, but will not name for obvious reasons as I have no
proof, which vendor this was, but one month my Credit Card bill
had a number of small charges to a company I never heard
of--small, but more than $300 in total, made over what seemd to
be the course of a weekend.

When I reported this to my bank, a large New York commercial
bank, the officer immediatley put me in touch with the Fraud
Dept., which decided to cancel my card and issue me a new one
immediately. A few weeks later the bank sent me a boilerplate
form to fill out and have notarized which simply stated I had not
made those charges.

Now here is where it gets interesting: Our office service's
dept. always has a staff member who's a notary. I just brought
the form into the guy.
This dude has a photographic memory and he took one look at the
name of the company and said, "do you have the current PC
Magazine handy?" I did, and brought it to him and he said, "look
at page _nn_ top right hand corner."

I did: there was an add for the company--which sells clip-art
software via modem. So obviously a disgruntled employee of the
vendor I suspect, and it surely is _not_ Tech Group was running
up charges on my card.

Regards,

%%Leslie%%

Th