I signed up for a divshare.com annual subscription in 2009 for a very reasonable $9 fee (billed to Diversion Web Publishing, LLC).in 2011 I cancelled that subscription and received email confirming it. I was still intending to keep the no-subscription fee-free account open. Since that I was just receiving new service promo emails from them.
Few days ago, however, I received the email stating that my account is "currently pass due more than 100 days". After login onto my account I confirmed my storage total was below 40MB and way below their free account limit of 10GB. I accessed my invoice area to view the payment history - there were no invoices present on my account. "Smelling a fish" I immediately closed my account with them.
The above facts indicate to me that divshare.com seems to confuse client (s) by requiring a "subscription" payment after a prolonged period of silence about the status of an account. There is no doubt in my mind that such a practice will result in a percentage of clients paying the "subscription" fee after a long time of not using the service and simply not remembering the exact status of it.
Is a large and fast-paced multi-device information flood, we all encounter nowadays, a new frontier of abuse simply because very few of us even consider to retain years of their email history as I do? Most likely yes.
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