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Article #8628Re: Unauthorised use of Credit Card - Help/opinions wanted
From: lonsen
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 00:00
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darwin@post1.com ((In Australia)) wrote: >The problem is that despite the Hire car company being told in writing >that they are NOT authorised to use my credit card number to seek the >several hundred dollars they claim, they have fraudulently used my >credit card to take the money they claim (but I dispute). My loss was only $15 - but it highlighted a problem. An internet service provider charged me for access after I had requested my account scrapped. I asked my credit card company if I could 'revoke in future' all authorisation from that company, and I was told I couldn't. I could only complain about transactions 'after the fact'. Call your card centre and ask who you can complain to regards the transaction, and they should put you onto the correct authority. (One exists, but I have forgot the details.) Regards In other words, your car company can charge you as much as they want - you can only take up the issue after they have billed you. I notice that all the while its the bank who suffers no concequence
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a0c5,28f7588558a26149 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a0c5,public From: lonsen@werple.mira.net.au (lonsen) Subject: Re: Unauthorised use of Credit Card - Help/opinions wanted Date: 1997/01/23 Message-ID: <5c7l84$4qd$1@eplet.mira.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 211767519 references: <32e5fb01.5051123@darwin.topend.com.au> organization: Werple Internet, Melbourne newsgroups: aus.consumers