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Comment by mystraline | Hacker News Reader

So ive done this before when I deal with predatory and 'free trial' companies.

Go get a $20 gas station credit card. They get THAT card, and whatever name you want to provide.

When they demand $x000 for their free trial, they get.... $20!

And before anyone bemoans their 50+ page onesided "contract" that weasel-words revokes 'free trial'... Sure, they can publish a claim and sell off a debt to "John Q Public". We can see how far they'll get with that.

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If they can prove you agreed to the charges, they can follow it up with debt collection companies or lawsuits, and that will cost you a lot more than just paying what you agreed to pay.

Reread the last paragraph.

And let me know how a lawsuit against "John Q Public" will go, along with an email from fakemail.net and a gas station preloaded credit card.

Companies deserve this sort of treatment if they say shit like "FREE TRIAL" and silently convert you to 'you owe money' with no hard limits. And naturally, paragraph 37, sentence 12 includes this disclaimer. That should be blatantly clear, but its not cause they are scammers.

So, fuck'em.

Oh, that's fun, because IIRC providing fake details makes it criminal fraud, automatically. They get to seek security camera footage from the gas station, subpoena your ISP to find who held your IP address (hope you used Tor) and subpoena fakemail.net for the same.

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