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Yahoo is now recycling handles

The appropriate party to inform would be the FBI ... The word fraud comes to mind, and millions of 50 centses puts company officers in prison for a long long long time.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kee Hinckley [mailto:nazgul at marrowbones.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 5 September, 2013 11:28
> To: nanog at nanog.org list
> Subject: Re: Yahoo is now recycling handles
> 
> 
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > I've got to apologize publicly to Yahoo! here as part of my issue was
> my own stupidity.  It appears in the past I've had multiple Yahoo! ID's
> and I was
> 
> I, on the other hand, need someone from Yahoo! to contact me, because I
> decided to test their "email wishlist" feature. Repeated attempts got me
> nothing but a message saying that my credit card information was
> incorrect. But when I checked my bill this morning, I have three fifty
> cent charges against my account (one for each time I revalidated my
> email address while attempting to use their form). There's no contact
> page on http://wishlist.yahoo.com, despite the fact that it's an
> ecommerce page that takes credit cards, and there's no apparent way to
> contact a human from the main yahoo page. I can always ask my credit
> card company to refuse the charges, but if Yahoo! is charging credit
> cards and not providing services, I think someone there needs to know
> there's a problem. Never mind taking credit card numbers and providing
> no customer support.