Well, It Finally Happened!

     It is not that I am particularly  attuned to the scammers on the NET, but I have so far avoided getting "scammed" for all the years I have been online.However, I got caught back in January and only found out today.

     On the 31st of January, the Official Documentation for ABISHAG would expire and so I needed to renew it. I went on line to get the address for the National Vessel Documentation Center to go through the process of renewal. Not paying attention, I hit the first website that came up which had a similar name but, as it turns out, wasn't the real thing.

      I was in the process of renewing my Merchant Mariner Credential with the National Maritime Center so that I could drive the launch at TYC,  when I had then connect me with the National Document Center so that I could find out what the delay was in my receiving ABISHAG's new certificate. It was then that although I had paid $75, they had no paperwork. In addition, the documentation expired nd I would have to go through a brand new documentation process  . . . . at the cost of $86. It seems that I actually had contacted a third-party service provider who was supposed to send the paperwork to the NDC for the $75, which it turns out was three times the actually cost I should incurred.

      I got online to find the third party provider and while they had a phone number, they would only communicate via email. So I contacted my bank, as payment had been made with my debit card, and we will see if they can retrieve the money. It was bad enough that I paid three times the cost, but the provider didn't provide. They failed to send the paperwork in and the documentation expired.  

      I did send them an email telling them that I wanted a refund as they failed to provide the contracted service and that it would be a good thing before the bank and the lawyers got involved. Who knows what will happen. Talk about feeli g foolish.