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Bandwidth theft - procedure and contacts to solve
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ld13
Honorary Master
2017 Revive! Lets see how it does with its 4th life.
I noticed that someone loaded some topup data on my webafrica account ... seems like I've had a freeloader for quite some time. So I can go and lay a charge at SAPS? Will they not look at me funny?
Or should I phone up the number and see who it is?
Diesal
Expert Member
Yeah, it's fraud. If they look at you funny then you went to the wrong SAPS station
Let me get this, they loaded a topup using your card/account? Silly fool...
ld13
Honorary Master
For some reason webafrica started ignoring my cap and the usage then ate into my roll-over top-up gigs... that ran out and he topped up with 5gb (not auto-topup). This bugger has been eating 100GB odd per month for quite some time as I recognize the landline number from seeing it in the usage stats. I never did anything about it before as I had the account running at 3-4 locations and did not know the landline number for all the locations and assumed it was one of these. I reduced the amount of locations to two at the beginning of this month. When I logged in tonight to see how much cap I have left I noticed 3 connections and proceeded to look into this parasite and changed my password etc etc etc.
My connection history on webafrica is strangely satisfying since I change my password:
Edit:
So far I have his email. Google Plus was nice enough to give me a full name and a picture of him.
I also have his cellphone number. Facebook was nice enough to give me a full profile, with full name and pictures galore for this number that matches the info I got from google plus.
Based on his email I can deduce where he works. His employer is all but confirmed by looking through his facebook photos.
(Incidentally I had to phone the employer a week or so ago and I was put through to someone with the same name afaik)
If only I could reverse-lookup his landline number... /me contemplates OCR-ing the local phone book :twisted:
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Praeses
Executive Member
/OT : How does one get removed from the whitepages?
ld13
Honorary Master
Sat on that page last night and never thought of simply searching for the number directly. Thx!
Works almost too well.
Praeses
Executive Member
Yeah, luckily I don't have a phone plugged into my line, but I still don't want my address freely available like that.