If you were an Alpha Red customer check your Credit Card
 

Hi,

Some "whales" at Alpha Red had their credit cards hit for extraordinary amounts that were not due. I don't know how widespread the problem is or if others with small accounts were affected. Everyone should call their credit card to review "recent" charges to see where they stand.

:disgust

Brad

interesting.

Ouch......

brad you are like a fly on shit with this alphared shit dont you have your own clients to take care of ?

Not that would be truly sad.

I'm happy to report that the 30 seconds it took me to write that post did not interfere with MojoHost support.

Besides which, I think that if some people were hit for 5 and 6 digits on their credit cards that it's a nice thing to warn everyone. :2 cents:

Brad

If it's true then it's irrelevant whether he's a competitor or not. Fraud is fraud.

indeed it is Brad:thumbsup

Wow, that's pretty insane.

I don't see anything wrong w/ Brad posting it and people should be grateful he did so.

and let me set something else straight here-

I like James, I have *always* liked James. How and where things went wrong for him, I haven't the slightest as we've been out of touch for years until more recently. When you bond with someone once, it sticks with you. This isn't personal, nor trolling for business. Where other competitors were excited, I have been sincerely distraught. I go back 9 years to when I was a webmaster and he was my first host AS Networks. There were threads by lots of other people before I ever posted a thing. I've kept things factual, stayed above the belt and omitted lots of details. James, where ever you are despite everything I wish you luck. As for AR customers, they're clearly in a safe place with CWIE as a new owner/operator which was not the case when all of this broke last week.

Brad

Hi Brad, hope all has been well with you

Let me comment here that CWIE has not billed any customers. We have nothing to do with previous Credit Card charges and customers should feel free to contact their credit card company to charge back any false CC transactions.

I like you too :winkwink:

don't cha know Brad has this really big heart - he watches out for all his friends! I doubthe gets sleep.

Without haters you aren´t successful!

Those retarded AR customers should be happy that someone gives them a heads up, may it be from a competitor or not.

ouch :(

The true nature of vultures is to prey on carrion.

Hiya Mark, yes things are well and thanks for asking. :) Thanks for clarifying, I didn't think to because it seemed so obvious.... I'm sure without clarification some dingbat here on GFY would have assumed otherwise somewhere in the first 40 posts. LOL

Thanks sweetie, you know me well....... :thumbsup

Brad

That is horrible. I hope those who have been charged are reporting this to the authorities. Wish I could say it is surprising to hear the news though.

brads built up enough goodwill in this community to be given the benefit of the doubt here, hes one of the genuine few, dont know many that would disagree with me

Damn that shirt on you have toomany colors.

I think my 3 year old did a fantastic job painting it.. it's one of my favorite ones! :pimp

Brad

I don't see that he's asking for anything in this thread, just giving information away. If I had an erroneous 4 or 5 figure charge on my account, I'd want to know about it as soon as possible.

I just want to take a moment to say that I fully corroborate Brad's claim.

I have received direct reports from former AR customers, stating that there were massive charges fraudulently applied to their accounts.

Would you rather find out when you get your bill? I'd rather someone gave me the heads up like Brad did here.
WG

I think Brad does a good job with his customers. I see no problem with him adding value to GFY letting people know, what this company is doing. I don't even host with Brad but he adds value to the board.

You are a true professional Brad. I am so glad I am hosting sites with you. Your posts here set the tone of professionalism that should be expected from hosting companies in our business.

Cogent just cut Alpha Red off. I knew last week this was scheduled, was hopeful CWIE would work it out with an acquisition. Best of luck everyone-

Brad

P.S. - to all of those who questioned my intentions of trying to be helpful, well, here you go.

Crazy shit. Will be interesting to see who controlled the billing to push those charges through. Guess James figured he may as well ad fraud to the mix and go big.

Apparently Cogent decided why wait until Friday to shut them down, I wasn't expecting this until tomorrow.

you dont love me anymore.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwww come here precious:upsidedow

Exactly, those of us who knew this stuff was going down were just pushed aside as haters and as hosts looking to make a quick buck. Point blank AR is dead. It sucks to be the told you so guys :)

I would suggest all Alphared customers to keep a close eye on the situation and think about if they would want (and can afford) to take the risk of waiting what happens with the (still possible) option of seeing your server going offline.

I think the fact that Alphared doesn't bring any update about the situation and the future of its hosting customers is a bad thing and unnecessary as it will make the situation only worse.

As far as I can see servers are still online as we just initiated another two transfers but I don't think this will last long, I wouldn't be surprised if everything went down for the weekend.

Actually looks like Cogent did their best to be accomodating, AR was supposed to go dark yesterday.

We just proved stuff really can get lost on icq - my last message from you was 2 months ago. Glad we're in communication now :)

Brad

I can verify that NO additional charges were made to our Cards, does not mean it has or hasn't to anyone else.