Anyway, the countrys largest consumer organization came out with a statement saying people should not pay the fees and just ignore the email, because you cannot legally force a paid subscription on people like that.

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Here is a an excerpt of the email from a (probably fake) German collection agency I received after telling usenet.nl themselves to fuck off.

Our client has duly performed his services and furnished you with his statement of account.

Unfortunately, you have not yet carried out the complete settlement of the outstanding balance in spite of repeated reminders from our client and you are already considerably in delay of payment.

The outstanding total claim is specified as follows: Principal claim for services provided according to invoicenumber 6666666 incl.

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that we have the authorisation to collect outstanding debts, so that payments should only be made to our account and further correspondence should also only be directed to our address.

We herewith indicate that the above mentioned deadline has to be absolutely kept.

Yours faithfully R.

Weidmann Tesch Inkasso Forderungsmanagement GmbH Registered legal services provider for debt collection services pursuant to Section 10 of the Legal Services Act (Rechtsdienstleistungsgesetz) Registry Court Cologne Reg.

No. 39598, Managing Directors: R.

Chief claim amount Reason for claim 19.07.2016 04.07.2016 Contract 9292523 99,00 EUR Contract Interest statement interest since Turnover Remark 19.08.2016 0,46 4,12 (5,00 percentage points above the baserate) of 99,00 from 2016-08-19 to 2016-09-29 plus 5,00 percentage points above the base rate interest of 99,00 from 30.09.2016 (0,01 daily) Accounting currency: EUR And my reply: Mr.

You and your client are scam artists and you will not receive a dime from me.

Faithfully and sincerely, My pissed off self.

P.S. If you continue to attempt to harass me, I will not hesitate to pursue litigation against you and your client.

If it turns out that it is equally impossible for me to litigate against you as it is for you to attempt collection from me due to us being in different international jurisdictions, we may need to come up with more creative solution to our problem.

As it stands, I believe the best course of action is for you to forget my existence and to vigorously fuck yourselves and eat shit, as I have previously suggested.

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Id be interested to know how this turns out, as I had something similar happen to me with something regarding another (non-Usenet.nl) related issue.

In my case the amount I owed was only 10 Euro so I just regretfully paid it.

Here is the body I used for the email: This is an automated response.

Your email address has been logged and the original message has been deleted.

Have a nice day. 9 Share Report Save level 1 4 years ago Thx to you and the previous member who warn against usenet.nl scammers.

Added them to my never.signup.txt list months ago.

Share Report Save level 1 4 years ago Im just suprised, why nobody shutdown them yet 3 Share Report Save level 2 4 years ago Likely that there would have to be a successful counter claim, or indeed an existing payment going all the way to Small Claims Court (or similar).

Thats a lot of risk for one person, especially given they can say well what were you doing on Usenet.

My SO once bought a hotel voucher through a popular bidding site and didnt use it.

Then after a few years she got an email saying she owed something like 100 or so, because she had failed to stop her one-year free subscription.

We went through her communicationpdfs with that bidding site and it was never made clear that it was a subscription.

Though, when she activated, the voucher, something that had to be done after the purchase, she had agreed to a subscription according to the email.

They were probably in some terms and agreements most people just click through.

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