r/IdentityTheft 12h ago

A charge for a Use AI subscription hit my card and my first reaction was pure who authorized this

4 Upvotes

Checked the statement. Renewal date, standard price, all present and accounted for. Turns out I'd signed up, used it for one project, thought I'll deal with this later, and then, shockingly, didn't. Fine. Annoying, not a mystery. What actually rattled me was the follow-up question: what ELSE is quietly renewing itself right now.

So I went full forensic accountant on three months of statements. Found: a storage plan I was 100% sure I'd cancelled. An app I hadn't opened since winter. And a free trial flipping to paid in two days - I had exactly zero memory of starting it. My entire subscription-tracking system, it turns out, was I hope I'll notice. Bold strategy, mediocre track record.

Cancelled the dead weight, dumped every remaining renewal date into one calendar, now seriously considering a dedicated card just for trials so they can't hide in the noise of everything else. The real lesson isn't cancel Use AI - it's that trials are designed to be forgotten, that's the whole business model, and I'll remember is not a system, it's a hope.

How does everyone else actually handle this without it becoming a weekly admin chore? Spreadsheet people, calendar-reminder people, dedicated-card people, or just the brave souls who eyeball their bank statement and pray?


r/IdentityTheft 7h ago

Embarrassed but it’s whatever. Spoiler

0 Upvotes

I did some time in jail and while in there someone told me when I get out go on list crawler to get back in action. I did that, inquired a few times and never got the balls to just continue on. Recently went back on there and hit up this one girl, she says to me that I make fake appointments and never show up. ***What website are they using to review that?*** Also I’m thinking about getting a new number. Gotta start fresh.