Slamming
At the base, the slamming is a not very scrupulous practice which consists in encouraging the owners of domain names to renew their subscription at new a Registrar under penalty of suppression. Domain Registry Of America (DROA) is the name of the often quoted Registrar.
DROA locates domain names with expiry thanks to the consultation of information in WHOIS. A postal mail is then sent and are connected with an ordinary invoice. The renewal of domain name is proposed for one or more years with an expensive tariff. By paying the invoice, the person transfers management from her domain name without any guarantee of renewal.
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By extension, practical not very scrupulous (translated by the " term; crushing wrongly ") who consists in adapting the telephone service contract or the subscription Triple play near the Historical operator, by usurping the assent of the subscriber.
The first victims were the customers of AT&T to the the United States in 1984. This practice arrives in France.
Following a conversation with a Telesales operator, even if the customer refuse the offer categorically, the Historical operator, owner of the phone line, receives the order of the supplier B to connect to you to his network.
The customer realizes of the problem only when it receives the invoice of the supplier B, whereas it is subscribed in the supplier has and continuous to receive his invoices. In the event of subscriber in Total grouping, the unexplainable stop of connection ADSL is the only symptom.
External bonds
- '' Escroquerie in the name of field: attention with the “slamming”! '' in 01net
- '' Slamming on L ADSL ''
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