A phone call and the loss of thousands of dollars

A man calls some companies and notifies them about the expiration of their company's website domain name registration and hosting, and asks for a payment to renew registration dates. The company owners ask for the fee and the man sends a person to take money from them at their office. He gets payment and even provides bills for the cash.

After some time, hosting and domain names expire, and company owners start to worry about it. They make phone calls to the companies who are in charge of domain name registration and hosting services. But the companies tell them they have not received any payment in the last year. In the end, both sides start to investigate the issue and find out that the ...

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