Legal advice on Internet Hosting Scam

• surfer188

  15 Jul 05, 16:48

  I have register a free hosting sometime January 2004.
  
  Have uploaded some files, used it for a month then totally forget about it since it's free to sign up.
  
  Until today, out of sudden they email me saying I own them money. Saying from June 2004 it's a payable services charging me US$5.95 per month from June till now.
  
  I have not receive any informations of changes of this services nor did I sign anything to agree them to charge me.
  
  Their invoices started in June but never email me until today (15 July 2005). Invoice receive one year later?? Only today then I receive a whole series of email invoices stating from June 2004 but was send out today. They wanted to charge me about US$80 for everything.
  
  My questions:
  
  Do I have any legal duties to them, since I sign nothing?
  Do I ever need to response to them?
  What should I do?
  
• casshern

  15 Jul 05, 17:00

  hm.... u try e-mailing them about this and see wat kind of response they give
  
  do they send e-mails to u remind u about the charges of hosting ur files?
  
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• surfer188

  15 Jul 05, 17:23

  Nope. I did not receive emails regarding the changes of being free hosting to payable hosting.
  
  Even if it have a changes, it should have something for me to sign or click "I agreed" right? I never have that.
• storywolf

  15 Jul 05, 17:45

  Originally posted by surfer188:

  I have register a free hosting sometime January 2004.
  
  Have uploaded some files, used it for a month then totally forget about it since it's free to sign up.
  
  Until today, out of sudden they email me saying I own them money. Saying from June 2004 it's a payable services charging me US$5.95 per month from June till now.
  
  I have not receive any informations of changes of this services nor did I sign anything to agree them to charge me.
  
  Their invoices started in June but never email me until today (15 July 2005). Invoice receive one year later?? Only today then I receive a whole series of email invoices stating from June 2004 but was send out today. They wanted to charge me about US$80 for everything.
  
  My questions:
  
  Do I have any legal duties to them, since I sign nothing?
  Do I ever need to response to them?
  What should I do?
  

  You can just ignore them. Because you never agree to pay them in the first place. If they want to convert from a free service to a pay service, they must first contact you to give you that option, which they failed.
  
  Anyway you can totally ignore them. Also they cannot sue you as they change term and condition that you did not agreed. Next how can they sue you from USA, also to sue you they need to spend money, which is more then that 80 ++ . It is just a scare tactics .... just ignore them.
• TehJarVu

  15 Jul 05, 17:49

  do they hv your credit card number?
  
  no right? how can they ever get the money from you?
  
  get out of that site and heck care them loh.
• surfer188

  15 Jul 05, 18:34

  They don't have my Credit Card Number. Because it's free in the first place so there is no need to give Credit Card Number.
  
  I do not give Credit Card number for free services. If thwy have ask in the first place before the free services, I would not have get the free service.
• surfer188

  15 Jul 05, 18:35

  They don't have my Credit Card Number. Because it's free in the first place so there is no need to give Credit Card Number.
  
  I do not give Credit Card number for free services. If thwy have ask in the first place before the free services, I would not have get the free service.
• kingofbeholder

  15 Jul 05, 18:41

  Originally posted by surfer188:

  They don't have my Credit Card Number. Because it's free in the first place so there is no need to give Credit Card Number.
  
  I do not give Credit Card number for free services. If thwy have ask in the first place before the free services, I would not have get the free service.

  then how they manage to send invoice to your house?
  
  i guess they track your IP and send to your home.
  just FUCK CARE.
• dibilo

  15 Jul 05, 19:05

  Originally posted by kingofbeholder:

  then how they manage to send invoice to your house?
  
  i guess they track your IP and send to your home.
  just FUCK CARE.

  i don't think they sent it to his house, he said e-mail didn't he?
  
  anyway you can safely FArk care about the whole incident. anyone can create an e-mail account now in lesser than 30 seconds, how are they going to trace everyone one of them. don't even bother to reply.
• surfer188

  15 Jul 05, 19:42

  That stupid web hosting company states:
  
  "User have to terminate as accordance in Section 3."
  
  I search the whole web site. There is no section 3 on how to terminate their service. I hack care them.
  
  I just went to change my email notification to a non-exsiting email address.
  
  Stupid web hosting. There are out for $.