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In-Reply-To: <4123DA09.1000309@rockynet.com> Cc: nanog@nanog.org From: Mark Barker <barkerm@cox.net> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:38:54 -0400 To: Mike Lewinski <mike@rockynet.com> Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu Invoicing for unsolicited materials is commonly referred to as "mail fraud" hereabouts. The courts have consistently upheld the notion that such materials can be considered gifts. IANAL but I would advise /dev/nulling all further correspondence from these losers. -- MAB On Aug 18, 2004, at 18:36, Mike Lewinski wrote: > > Has anyone else has run into these scumbags? Sometime last winter I > received a call along the lines of "We'd like to send you some > materials to review". Well, they sent some "Internet Law encyclopedia" > along with an invoice for ~$700. Of course, there was no cost > mentioned in the sales call- for all I knew they were going to send me > a brochure about their product. I can say with 100% certainty that I > would never have authorized them to send me something like this had > they mentioned the cost without much further discussion as to what I > was receiving. > > This is just a general heads-up to a sleazy business practice for a > sleazy company that is now attempting to extort money. >
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