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Indeed contact the police as well. The ‘client’ is quite simply a thief.

Using someone else’s credit card without permission to obtain thousands of dollars of services is criminal fraud. Ultimately he should be the one forced to make restitution under court order.

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This may be difficult due to the fact that the defendant and plaintiff are in different countries. The costs for pursuing this action may well exceed the actual loss.

I thought they were both in Zurich... no?

That was my understanding as well. If they are in different countries, it would definitely be time consuming and costly.

I think the author was in Zurich temporarily, but resides in another country based on what he wrote here:

>> Why would a bank take my side (a freelancer from another country) instead of his own actual client who never actually requested those services?

It's definitely possible that the author resides in the same country, but he doesn't go into detail in the article.

on his website it said zurich, seeing rates of 40usd for a freelancer based in zurich does not make any sense. zurich is to expensive for him to charge so little.

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