I swear, people are unbelievable. Got ready to pay our credit card and before I do that I always check over our statement online. I saw a charge I didn’t recognize as KHBILL.COM so I called the hubbs and asked if he charged anything I didn’t know about. He said no. So I went to the website and the following came up:
Why was I billed?
You purchased a product, membership or subscription from a website that uses Jettis International’s services. You should have received an email receipt at time of purchase. If you do not have your receipt, use the Account Information Retrieval Form to view purchase details.
Why do I have multiple charges?
For your convenience, many subscription-based websites renew your membership until you cancel. For more information, visit the website to which you subscribed. If you’ve subscribed to multiple websites, the charges will be listed separately.
How can I stop the billing?
Fill out the Account Cancellation Form. Once you’ve cancelled, you will not be billed again after the date of your cancellation. To maximize the value of your membership, your access will remain active until the end of the current billing cycle. Customer Service support is powered by Jettis International, a division of Jettis, Inc. Click here for Customer Support.
Guess what you need in order to verify your supposed subscription? That’s right, your credit card number! (That should be the first tip off!) Oh they tell you you can provide your subscription number (which there is none because you didn’t subscribe to anything), your credit card number and email address and conveniently you only need to provide 2 of the 3 items listed in order to get any info! How nice of them! So you mean I can provide you with my email address AND my credit card number so you can charge to your hearts content and spam my email too!? Lucky me!
Unfortunately there are plenty of people out there that would give up this information to get the $39.95 or whatever amount they charged to get it removed. Guess what? They’ll also charge you repeatedly! We haven’t gotten to that point but after some online research, many have. I called the number for giggles and guess what they ask for in order to verify your account? Credit card number AND expiration date! Are there really people out there stupid enough to hand that info over to complete strangers in this day and age?? Oh and don’t forget if “you” paid by check there’s a little logo for that too! I’m sure it asks for your checking account number and routing number but I wasn’t going to click it to find out.
I am blogging about this so that others who may get an email from the many company fronts this place uses can rest assured that this IS a scam, you MUST cancel your credit card and dispute the charges and under no circumstances do you email them! I would also delete the cookies in your documents and settings folder and restart just to be safe.
Some of the names associated with this scam are : KHBILL.COM, Jettis International, Jettis Inc and Kelker Holdings, Ltd. and Nicosia Cyprus were listed at the bottom of the page. Based on some research apparently EELimit.com is also associated and other various porn sites.
November 12th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
A family member posted on Facebook about having made 122 dollars in one day, and posted a link. I followed the link to a site that Set you up for posting links or something for Google. Though I did fill out most of the order form….including some debitcard info, I stopped, checked the EULA, and went back to the website to cancel, and though no Submit button (Or any other that I may have thought to be one ) was clicked on, the transaction was acknowledged, and duly deducted from my debit Card($3.95). And so was $74.++….a few days later.
My bank gave me the phone number of the merchant that billed me. When I called, and demanded a refund, the very first question was: “May I have the first 6 digits of your credit card”…….I refused that request and once again demanded that my request be processed by my name. They complied, so since they hadn’t gained my trust, I cancelled that card….after withdrawing all available balance…..and requested a new one.
December 24th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
I recently opened an account with Bank of America. I used a debit card online to provide verification to a lady that I was not a sex-offender. As soon as I had given my debit card number. I got a funny feeling that all was not kosher, so jumped into the car and presented myself & debit card to an associate at my local bank! Although there had been less that five minutes elapsed, there were two charges on the card totaling over $70.oo. The bank squashed them as soon as I told them what had happened, and gave me a different card number. Scissors
wereput through the old card. Today, I checked my balance, and saw that there was about $40.oo less in my account than I had expected. It turned out that someone had somehow, (God knows how, for I have NEVER used that new card since I got it for ANYTHING!)got hold of my debit card number, and had charged a subscription to a company calling itself, “MPROP.net.” The bank gave me the phone number of this company, 1(877) 483-4045 I called and was told that I had taken out a subscription to a web-site. I asked, and was told it was a porn site. I told this person that it was a fraudulent transaction, and that I had no interest in such things. He assured me a refund would be in the mail to my bank, He did ask for the first six digits of my debit card, as well as the last four, and I gave him these as I was intending to block the card as soon as I hung up on him. Which I did! Then I got an e-mail from Jettis, telling me my subscription had been canceled. So these scumbags were involved in trying to rip me off as well! My Debit card was successfully blocked by Bank of America, but I do not know HOW they got hold of the number, for my card was issued new to me after the first one was compromised, and I have not used it for ANYTHING! Not even to make a retail purchase! So when I go to get my third debit card form Bank of America, I am going to see if there are any additional safeguards I can get that will prevent anyone who hacks into their system from using my card. So, my fellow sufferers, guard your credit & debit card numbers with your life! I am going to go to the police with this one, for I want to know WHO got hold of my number and most importantly, HOW!