>SO is this fraud, or merely incompetence, racketeering or simple arrogance?
....
All of the above.
>to prove NSI is in violation of RICO laws or mail fraud, the government
would
>have to prove that these late and errant invoices are intentional. um, i
don't
>think that would be an easy case to prove.
Not that hard. NSI has know about it for months and done nothing, ergo it's
intentional.
>I find all of the group-think that i often see on this list quite amusing.
>Does NSI suck? sure. are they a slow-to-respond top-heavy, arrogant
>institution whose responded to competition by implementing new products and
>policies seemingly designed to screw over the consumer? of course they are.
are
>they destined for bankruptcy? probably.
>but are they evil? no. this blind hatred is like the demonification of
Bill
>Gates, simply a nerdy programmer whose simply done what all us nerdy
>programmers aspire to do: make a million dollars off of our nerdy
endeavors.
The USA is going to have a major display of 'group-think' this November.
I don't think that industry professionals reaching a consensus opinion is
'amusing'
or out of the ordinary. I'm not advocating blind hatred but rather a call to
action
about the actions of an ex-monopoly who's unethical and possibly illegal
actions are
having a NEGATIVE impact on our customers and our businesses. Bottom line is
that
everytime Verisign/Network Solutions sends a fraudulent invoice to one of my
clients
and I have to stop what I'm doing and get on the phone and explain to the
client that
it is bogus and then the client insists that I verify with Netsol etc etc, I
am
LOOSING MONEY.
>so NSI's billing procedures suck. so do the billing procedures of the
*vast*
>majority of dialup ISP's, web-hosts and other internet-only businesses that
>I've ever dealt with (including my own, unhappily, though i do try :-)
So does that make it right? Everyone else sucks so it's ok for NetSol to
suck?
>i wouldn't, uh make a federal case out of it. isn't it possible that
customers
>(especially companies) who pay bills just because they arrive in the mail,
>without knowing (or caring or checking) if they are accurate, might just
have
>deeper problems than even another five year multimillion dollar Department
of
>Justice class action lawsuit can solve?
>nonlitigiously yours,
>-dave
Why the hell not? The Feds want to stick their investigative noses in
everyone else's
britches...why not Verisign/Network Solutions?? Especially Verisign. I'm
sure they
have extensive encryption business with the Federal Government.
As far as questioning the skills of companies that don't check invoices
prior to payment or have
a check & balance system like purchase orders, come on... that's a huge
segment of the small business
market. Sending phony invoices to mom & pop businesses for things like toner
and office supplies is such
a major racket the FTC is constantly issuing scam warnings. Pop might be out
of the office and Mom comes
in to do the books and just pays everything that lands in the mailbox. Don't
Mom & Pop deserve to be
protected from monster corporations like NetSol?
I'm sure that NetSol has the programming money to immediately alter their
invoice process.
Their CFO, Robert Korzeniewski needs to get his CEO, James Rutt and their
CTO David Holtzman go down to their accounting department and KILL the
invoicing process. Grab some staff programmers, write a script that greps
their whois database and pull the invalid invoices for the domains that they
no longer control before it prints them.
The fact that they have not done this means they must have some idea of how
many millions they are collecting in error.
Tony
