This blog on Consumerist caught my eye because I’ve experienced the very same thing. My credit card expired while I was living in Japan, and I let it go as I wouldn’t be using Xbox Live there anyway. I came home months later to find that Microsoft was still somehow charging me on a dead card. I called my bank and asked how they could do that? They weren’t sure.

Consumerist calls it zombie billing. When an account you thought was dead is suddenly re-animated, and you get charged automatically from auto-billing, that’s zombie billing.

http://www.destructoid.com/beware-xbox-live-s-zombie-expired-credit-card-charges-213136.phtml

The banks don’t know how Microsoft can do that because they can’t. It’s called fraud. It’s illegal.

Jesse Leigh (199 Posts)

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