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Re:Student Charged $14k on Stolen Google Cloud Credentials by nitins_jakta on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:05PM (#19610711)
Will do, thanks for the advice. The only thing they did was validate the API count, but I was not disputing this, only that I made the calls.

The call volume itself looks suspicious. No calls for well over a year and then suddenly an incredible amount? You would think Google would have some algorithm to detect this?

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Re:Student Charged $14k on Stolen Google Cloud Credentials by foobarbazetc on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:18PM (#19610785)
Yeah exactly. But the key is not to say “lower my bill”, but rather “these charges aren’t mine”.

If they send it to collections you can dispute it. A lot of laws and things around that.

It sounds like it hasn’t been charged off yet though, since they want you to pay Google, not them.

I wish you luck. :)

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