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LTR Update: prevention of subscription traps
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With perfidious tricks scammers try impose unsuspecting Internet users, expensive contracts. But those familiar, does not have much to fear. The basic rule is: Do not be intimidated, revoke, not pay and wait.
You work from a shared computer and need a utility program that is not at hand. No problem, it is immediately displayed on the web and you can download it. Annoying that you specify to address its needs, but what the heck. Even professionals are sometimes inattentive for a moment. Days later the fluttering hefty bill for a paid download or subscription a long-running into the house – even though it had acted with the required software to freeware or a free open-source program. It is a trapper on the glue gone.
Who will pay right now or be intimidated by the menacing reminder of any debt collection companies can be who has lost. Because the money is later recovered all but impossible. Instead, one should doubt in a brief reply that in general, a contract is concluded. If you do, you withdraw him as a precaution. And does not pay. That will be enough in most cases, because the scammers know that they have a bad hand in court and are satisfied with the profits they reap from frightened victims. Only if a court order should reach a court, would necessarily react, but it could and should disagree too. All details on the best strategy against Internet fraudsters explains this post .
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Tags: Linux, LTR, prevention, subscription