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She alerted me as to what was going on at this point and that this guy was “holding me hostage on the phone”. $2000 specifically Walmart and $2000 she did in visa gift cards. He was all “I’m going to get fired!!” He had her buy $4000 in gift cards. She accidentally typed in 5170 so he actually transferred $5170 to her account. He had his bank numbers and she was to get $517 from him. Neil offers to get it back for her because it was an “accidental charge” from “Microsoft”. Next thing she knows is $9000 is gone from savings.

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He had her install TeamViewer on her computer and then had her log into her bank account. She clicked the link (first error) and somehow ended up getting connected with a Neil who was “going to help her get her money back”. She got an email saying she had a PayPal transaction for $517. B2B just don't work that way.This afternoon I get a text from my mom that someone stole $9000 in cash and $4000 in gift cards from her.

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Unfortunately, you have been caught out here by expecting business software billings to behave like a Netflix subscription where if you just don't pay, they will go away.

But It is very common, especially in B2B contracts. Especially with stupid '28 day notice periods'. The phone company cuts off your access due to non payment AND can continue to bill you for that time, the loss of access is a consequence of non-payment, not the reason for it. If you have a monthly subscription to a newspaper, you owe for every newspaper you receive until you cancel. At that point, you call up and say 'Hey, I havn't been using this, I'm not going to pay the bill' -Does it matter that you havn't been using it?īillings are for services PROVIDED, not services USED. You use it for a few months and then your usage slows down and you put the phone in a drawer and forget about it. You walk into a phone store and purchase a phone on a plan, SIM only. The service WAS provided and was only cut off due to non payment. If they wanna take me to court fine, id love to see them justify why i should pay money for a service im not being providedīut note that although I don't agree with the process, this IS legal and will likely hold up in court unless your country has laws against evergreen clauses / subscriptions. Well last night i got a message from their debt collections company demanding i pay just short of $600!!! Again for a subscription to a service that theyre not providing me! Furthermore if i dont pay that insane amount of money within two weeks theyll be adding another $180 in fees!!! Didnt think much of it coz why pay for a service youre not getting? Thought it was a little petty that i could no longer use teamviewer for non commercial use anymore but whatever, i moved on. Never received a call or any further correspondance from them so figured theyd just taken care of it. So when they called me up and asked for payment i told them sorry but i dont want to renew, they said i had to put through a cancellation request and after some talking they told me theyd get someone from the relevant department to call me to help me process the request. Figured id just wait until the year expired and not renew. I stopped using it commercially about halfway through. Last year i needed it for work so paid for a years subscription for commercial use.

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So ive been user the free version of teamviewer for many years, mostly to help friends fix small issues with their PC's.