It's a well-known trick, our notary warned us that these letters would come and we should scrutinize any invoice for a while. But they manage to skirt at the edge of legality
It's a well-known trick, our notary warned us that these letters would come and we should scrutinize any invoice for a while. But they manage to skirt at the edge of legality
Generally those kind of scams setup an illegitimate transaction that would be reversed in a court case.
Whether they rise to a criminal matter is complicated but the vast majority of such scams hold up to scrutiny and instead rely on shell games to make retrieving your funds to expensive to be possible.
I am not talking about common sense I am talking about things like informed consent and consideration.
Why do you think it is so common to hear horror stories about gym memberships?
But in your example no one agreed to the contract which means no agreement exists.
Generally you can say that payment was agreement to terms but that doesn't work if you deceived to get the payment.
??? you agreed to it by registering a .at domain. There was probably some fine print at your registrar which says you agree with the registry policies
Likely the difference is court costs.