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Wall Street Journal: AOL blackmailing former users with bill threats
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... it as blackmail: "How can you charge me for something I didn't order and certainly didn't want, about which I was never informed, and for which I have received no bill of any kind?"
It's in the EULA, of course! Anyone who has ever had an AOL account -- even if you just used email or AIM -- needs to keep an eye on its decline into apparent shiftiness. Does it have your credit card information? Your bank details?
Photo: Rogue Sun Media
You've Got Blackmail: The AOL Account That Wouldn't Die
AOL threatens former users with mystery bills
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... it as blackmail: "How can you charge me for something I didn't order and certainly didn't want, about which I was never informed, and for which I have received no bill of any kind?"
It's in the EULA, of course! Anyone who has ever had an AOL account -- even if you just used email or AIM -- needs to keep an eye on its decline into apparent shiftiness. Does it have your credit card information? Your bank details?
Photo: Rogue Sun Media
You've Got Blackmail: The AOL Account That Wouldn't Die
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AOL Tries to Extort Bogus Fees From Wall Street Journal Writer [Extortion]
Gizmodo —
... The argument devolved into AOL insisting they would attempt to collect through legal channels, and Zweig welcoming them to, as he plans to file a fraud report before they'd be able to do anything of the sort. We guess when you've floundered as much as AOL has in recent years, all you can do is try to extort old customers. It's just bad luck one of their targets happens to write for one of the country's largest news organizations. [Wall Street Journal] ...
