• recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    We got a “bill” from a company like this that wanted ~300 bucks to “list your companies name on our website”. That was it. You paid them, and you got added to the list of accountants that didn’t read the fine print. Pretty clever, if obnoxious.

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      4 months ago

      This is common with domain registrations too. They will mail an unsuspecting company a request to pay for “continued domain protection” for a domain close to expiration, which means literally paying them to send another letter when the domain is up for renewal again. The don’t do anything with the domain, you just pay them to mail you letters when it’s close to expiring