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25 cent charge appears on millions of credit card statements

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Forums, chat room and blogs are recently overflowing with complaints from credit card users from across America. Those customers who are complaining are talking about a mysterious $0.25 cent charge on their credit card statements.

These 25 cents have been charged by Adele Services, Melville, N.Y.  A simple search on internet reveals that there is no such company in Melville. even more surprising is that no business by this name was ever registered in state of New York.

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People are presenting many theories for explanation of such absurd charges. One is, that it is quite possible that some one got his hands on a large database of credit card numbers and customer information. they are trying to verify the credit card authenticity before ringing up bigger charges on these cards.

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