[165540] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Yahoo is now recycling handles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith Medcalf)
Sat Sep 7 19:58:29 2013
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2013 17:58:14 -0600
In-Reply-To: <2DF7933E-A48B-428C-B9DE-2810D50A43A1@marrowbones.com>
From: "Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
The appropriate party to inform would be the FBI ... The word fraud comes t=
o mind, and millions of 50 centses puts company officers in prison for a lo=
ng long long time.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kee Hinckley [mailto:nazgul@marrowbones.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 5 September, 2013 11:28
> To: nanog@nanog.org list
> Subject: Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
>
>
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I've got to apologize publicly to Yahoo! here as part of my issue was
> my own stupidity. It appears in the past I've had multiple Yahoo! ID's
> and I was
>
> I, on the other hand, need someone from Yahoo! to contact me, because I
> decided to test their "email wishlist" feature. Repeated attempts got me
> nothing but a message saying that my credit card information was
> incorrect. But when I checked my bill this morning, I have three fifty
> cent charges against my account (one for each time I revalidated my
> email address while attempting to use their form). There's no contact
> page on http://wishlist.yahoo.com, despite the fact that it's an
> ecommerce page that takes credit cards, and there's no apparent way to
> contact a human from the main yahoo page. I can always ask my credit
> card company to refuse the charges, but if Yahoo! is charging credit
> cards and not providing services, I think someone there needs to know
> there's a problem. Never mind taking credit card numbers and providing
> no customer support.
