Question for users of Oron.com (file service)

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Earlier today, I got a phone call from my credit card company about some irregular charges on my account. It turned out that there were two charges that I had not authorized, to parties of which I had never heard. I have closed the account, but the puzzle is, who got hold of my account information, and by what means? I use the account in question exclusively for purchases on the Web: the card itself never leaves the house, and I do not use it for purchases over the telephone. Further, the vast majority of my on-line purchases are at a few highly reputable sites such as Amazon.com. The only exception to this in my recent history is that in May, I subscribed for one month to the file-storage service Oron.com in order to download a lot of movie files. Even though I looked through the terms carefully before subscribing to ascertain that there was no automatic renewal, I got notice a few weeks later that my account was about to be charged for another month anyway. I succeeded in preventing that charge, but it seemed to me that a site that operates largely for the transmission of porn and that uses sharp practices like automatic renewal is the likeliest suspect in this caper.

So I just wonder if there are others out there who have paid for premium membership at Oron.com and, if so, if any of them have experienced unauthorized transactions on the charge account that they used.
 

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I don't pay premium for sites like that anyone. I think I did it once for Rapidshare and once for Megaupload.

I don't mind waiting and for Rapidshare there is software that lets you download as many files as you want anyway with no waiting (Rapidshare Auto Downloader)

A lot of sites have auto renewals, you need to be careful. They may not have listed it in the Terms and Conditions but they probably said it somewhere. Or maybe they didn't, it's not the best looking site in the world. Which doesn't give a good impression.
 

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Ordinarily, I do not pay for membership in those sites, but on this occasion, I was restoring part of my porn collection after a hard-drive failure and needed to download a lot of files from the same service, so it made sense to pay once.
 

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When I had a premium subscription to Oron.com, I paid through Paypal and had no such issues when I went to cancel the account. A secured payment website has better security than a credit card.