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Odd entry on Visa bill

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  • 29-05-2014 9:59pm
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    MOH
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    This may be better suited to another forum - please move if appropriate.

    Just been checking my Visa bill and there's an entry for "INML OUTSOURCE T/SALES". Can't for the life of me work out what it is. Google's no help - it throws exactly that up as a suggestion when I start typing, but then returns nothing useful.

    It's a reasonably big amount, which has me a bit worried it's some kind of dodgy charge.

    I'll give the bank a shout tomorrow to try to get more details, just wondering if anyone might have come across it before?


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    Outkast_IRE
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    Did you check your emails from around the time of the charge ?

    If you ordered anything online or similar they would send an email around that time.


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    WeHaveToGoBack
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    That's a porn site


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    ScouseMouse
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    WeHaveToGoBack wrote: »
    That's a porn site

    And how exactly would you know ? :p


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I find a phonecall to the cc company always clears these queries immediately.


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    Thoie
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    It wouldn't be something like JML telesales? Check your phone bill from around that time and see did anyone come home drunk and decide they really needed an air mattress that turns into a mop, that can also be used for housing the elderly. But wait, there's more!


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    MOH
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    Bailee Faint Registration wrote: »
    I find a phonecall to the cc company always clears these queries immediately.

    And as I said in the OP, I was going to call them today. I was just wondering last night if anyone knew what it was.

    As it turns out, I worked it out this morning. It's for a memorial notice I put in the paper.

    INML presumably stands for Independent News and Media Limited.


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    Fred Swanson
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    Oryx
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    Im almost disappointed it wasn't porn.

    Glad you got it figured out!


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    Rochester
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    It would be really helpful if companies put up something instantly recognizable. Your concern might have led you to cancel the card and put a lot of inconvenience on yourself. Glad it is sorted.


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    Five Lamps
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    Rochester wrote: »
    It would be really helpful if companies put up something instantly recognizable. Your concern might have led you to cancel the card and put a lot of inconvenience on yourself. Glad it is sorted.

    Apparently there is a rule - if you have to ring up to ask what the company is because it is not obvious then the company that billed you loses all or part of the sale. Presume that the credit company pockets the money.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Five Lamps wrote: »
    Apparently there is a rule - if you have to ring up to ask what the company is because it is not obvious then the company that billed you loses all or part of the sale. Presume that the credit company pockets the money.

    Can you reference where you got that? Or is it another urban myth?


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    Five Lamps
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    Bailee Faint Registration wrote: »
    Can you reference where you got that? Or is it another urban myth?

    A former colleague who used to work in the credit card department of a major bank dealing with these types of queries. I had a similar problem where I couldn't identify an entry on my credit card - rang up and found out who it was said. In some chit chat afterwards he told me that this is what happens. It does stand to reason - you should be readily able to identify every entry on your bill without having to ring the bank.


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    Oryx
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    Five Lamps wrote: »
    A former colleague who used to work in the credit card department of a major bank dealing with these types of queries. I had a similar problem where I couldn't identify an entry on my credit card - rang up and found out who it was said. In some chit chat afterwards he told me that this is what happens. It does stand to reason - you should be readily able to identify every entry on your bill without having to ring the bank.
    But as a merchant I don't set what appears on someones card when they buy from me. I presume the card processor does.


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    Fred Swanson
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    Oryx
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    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    It is set up on your terminal.

    Lol. Not by me. I guess whoever installed did it!


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    GerardKeating
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    Bailee Faint Registration wrote: »
    Can you reference where you got that? Or is it another urban myth?

    urban myth


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    Five Lamps
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    Oryx wrote: »
    But as a merchant I don't set what appears on someones card when they buy from me. I presume the card processor does.

    Surely as a merchant, you would set this up on some sort of application form with your merchant gateway. They don't assign you the name that appears on customers bill.


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