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Basically, IBill did have the rights to sell your customers card numbers to someone else for processing, check your old contracts. The clients don't really belong to you, they belong to IBill, and now eTelegate or whoever they are calling themselves at this point.
It's a sad fact of life but there it is.
Trouble's going to be criminal for IBill/eTelegate/whoever keeps on processing transactions on these consumer cards while knowing that these consumers do not have any access to the site they are expecting to be rebilled for (if they actually know they are being rebilled) and they won't get any access to most of the sites I am guessing. This is fraud in a nutshell, billing cards for services that you know will not be provided and then waiting on the consumers to figure it out and get chargebacks or I'm sure credits, if they call into or email customer support at the billing company.
I'd suggest you also file a complaint with the FTC. You aren't the consumer in the case directly, but if some of the rumors are true there is a very good possibility that the word IBill will trigger your report to be forwarded to an office that cares, instead of just the standard "you arent the consumer, you cant complain" response.
And if they've billed any of your test cards (ie your own card you used to sign up to your site or anyone else's while they were in business) then you certainly do become the consumer in this case...
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