Why it is important to watch your credit card or WTF is ATC*SYNAPSE

Posted by Andrew Denner on November 12, 2014 · 1 min read

p>The scam truck</p>

With all the breaches in credit card security lately I had us bank setup every account alert possible (talk about alarm fatigue). This morning I received a notification that ATC*SYNAPSE active.com was charging me $36.00. Of course I immediately feared the worst, however after doing a little more research it was a recurring charge for Fitness magazine that my wife had signed up for for “free” while registering for a race.

Magazine stack

After doing a little checking $36 seemed rather high when Amazon was selling subscriptions for $5.99.
After a bit of googleing I was able to find the offending company behind this massive over charge, the Synapse Group they have an online service page if you want to cancel online or just call them at 203-595-8255

So the end of the story is that I called them, they are refunding the $36 and canceling our “order”. After they end we will be re-registering with a far cheeper subscription and saving money all around.