Bandwidth theft - procedure and contacts to solve

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biena

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biena said:
2008 died
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This thread is on its 3rd life, 6 to go before it is dead.
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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?

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Or should I phone up the number and see who it is?
 
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ld13 said:
So I can go and lay a charge at SAPS? Will they not look at me funny?
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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...
 
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Xzib1t said:
Let me get this, they loaded a topup using your card/account? Silly fool...
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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:

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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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