Wednesday, February 15, 2006

File your complaint against Stormpay with FBI:

This is the FBI Office investigating Stormpay:
FBI OFFICE
South Tryon Street Suite 900
Charlotte, North Carolina
(704) 377-9200
http://charlotte.fbi.gov/
Special Agent in Charge: Kevin B. Kendrick
Assistant Special Agents in Charge: Kenneth Moore, Robert Clifford

InfraGard Program Telephone (704) 377-9200 E-mail: _ce.infragardmailaccessgroup@ic.fbi.gov_
(mailto:ce.infragardmailaccessgroup@ic.fbi.gov)

Media Relations Telephone (704) 377-9200
E-mail: _ce.mediamailaccessgroup@ic.fbi.gov_
(mailto:ce.mediamailaccessgroup@ic.fbi.gov)

If you have been affected by Stormpay's illegal actions against many sites lately, had your account illegally frozen, had unauthorized chargebacks or debits made to your credit card or bank account and etc, please file your complaint with the agency listed above.

The following is from another site which has gathered together information and places to file as well: Places to file complaints, suggestions on how to proceed with claims against Stormpay from http://free-blog-site.com/miscellaneous_pages/archive/2006/02/08/89093.aspx:

Many people are asking if they have any recourse, and there is. First and foremost you'll need the name and address of the person your filing a complaint against:
StormPay Inc.
1690 Golf Club Ln Clarksville, TN 37043 US
931-647-8750
e-mail: info@stormpay.com
Owner Mr. John R. McConnell Jr.

Second what to do next: This e-mail from Becky Bradley who works for the state of Tennessee:

From: Becky Bradley Becky.Bradley@state.tn.us
Date: Feb 8, 2006 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: StormPay Complaints - Who to contact.

Consumers can file complaints with this office (TN Division of Consumer Affairs). You can file a complaint online at http://www.state.tn.us/consumer On the lower right-hand side of the website, you will see file a complaint. Click there and it will take you to an online or a downloadable complaint form. I

n Addition: If you live in the United States or Canada here are some informational links for you to visit: In most cases you can file suit in Small Claims court in your area/state here are the links: Small Claims State Links http://www.ncsconline.org/wc/publications/kis_smaclastlinks.pdf
[downloadable pdf file, you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader.]

Online html version of the links: http://www.ncsconline.org/WC/Publications/StateLinks/SmaClaStateLinks.htm Small Claims Court Links to Each State listed along with the maximum Dollar Amount you can sue for.

http://law.freeadvice.com/resources/smallclaimscourts.htm
Small Claims FAQs
http://www.ncsconline.org/WC/FAQs/SmaClaFAQ.htm http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/jl/index.html

Forms for Small Claims Court for some but not all states:
http://www.uslegalforms.com/small-claims.htm

If you don't have money to get a lawyer then try to see if you can get on to work Pro Bono http://www.abanet.org/legalservices/probono/directory/programlinks.html

If you line outside of the United States: Hieros Gamos http://www.hg.org The Comprehensive Law and Government Site Hieros Gamos "is the largest and only comprehensive legal site with over 20,000 original pages and more than 70,000 links." Various databases contain information on legal organizations including every government in the world, practice areas, "doing business" guides, news, and online seminars. The online law library contains extensive reference works, including many foreign language dictionaries. [It's printed in over 50 languges so most people are bound to find important information about filing a claim in court here in their language.]

Try also looking at these sites http://www.ipl.org http://www.libraryspot.com
Other links you might find useful:
http://www.uscourts.gov/library.html
http://www.searchsystems.net
http://www.ncsconline.org
http://www.legal.gsa.gov
http://www.lawsource.com/also
http://www.247ref.org/portal/access_law3.cfm
http://www.publiclawlibrary.org
http://consumer.findlaw.com
http://www.consumerworld.org
http://public.findlaw.com/mboards
http://www.creditguide.com/links.htm
http://fatty.law.cornell.edu/topics/consumer_credit.html
http://www.findlaw.com
http://www.nfcc.org
http://www.lpig.org
http://www.uscourts.gov/courtlinks
http://www.nysppsa.org/forms/usps.pdf

Other tips and hints to help you out just incase: Author Topic: How To Stop Storm Pay From Debiting Your Account kenyatta Newbie Posts: 3 How To Stop Storm Pay From Debiting Your Account « on: February 07, 2006, 05:28:48 PM » http://forums.12dailypro.com/smf/index.php?topic=26144.msg145874#msg145874

You can go to your bank and ask them for an ACH Reversal Authorization. This will prevent Storm Pay from debiting your account. This is simply a preventive measure in the event they attempt to debit your account. As I understand it, there is no charge for this service. I just finished talking with my bank and had it placed on my account. It only takes a couple of minutes and is good for 6 months.

This is not something you want to wait and see what's next type of thing but something you want to do ASAP. I did it with my bank over the phone. Hope this helps... Also something I had to learn the hard way from an experince I had back in 2003 : From the representavite at my credit union: Whever possible try to use your bank account when signing up for automatic subscrition plans. [For web site meberships, magazines, ect. Anything where you'll be billed on a regular basis either weekly, monthly, quaterly, or every year.] I don't remeber the exact reasoning but if you use a credit card or debit card when you sign up for a automatic subscription plan it's a lot more difficult to stop the billing.

If you want to be able to easily stop of cut off a subscription for a web site, magazine or anything else use your checking account information. Also take screen shots of your account at your payment processor just incase you ever have any problems. There's a nice little easy to use program called MW Snap that can take screen shots: MW Snap http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html There's also plenty of freeware avaible here are links to two different freeware sites: http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/freeware.html http://www.nonags.com/nonags/index.html Also you'll need a free image host. Here's the one I use: Image Shack http://imageshack.us And just for good measure for future refrence if you live in the United States you can always check out: Consumers Action Handbook http://consumeraction.gov That's all I can think of for now and for all of you trying to recover money from StormPay good luck.
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