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SilicomNetwork.com Scam
MetalDragon
Member
I never thought that I had to post a negative review here ever but here I am. So I purchased a lifetime hosting from SilicomNetwork on December 12, 2025, During payment the link always directed me to paypal and asked for a paypal account which I didn't had so I opened a ticket about this. They gave me a direct payment link and I paid. They activated my service and all were ok. after 2 days my card was charged again from them for the same amount, I instantly opened a ticket and they said that they only charged once so I contacted my bank and asked for a dispute and inform them too. I got the second payment back a few days later. All was ok till today. Today I got mail from them "Fraud reported to maxmind and blocked permanently to order." I was shocked and contacted them they said I opened dispute which I didn't. It seems like they are doing a scam with there lifetime plan. I have all documents all emails and invoices which I am ready to submit.
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@silicomnet
@MetalDragon adding evidence should be the first thing to do in your post
You can't really provide evidence that you didn't do something.
Evidence as in screenshots of tickets at least
Charge back the other credit card charge.
https://ibb.co.com/n889sQvM
https://ibb.co.com/tpcw303b
https://ibb.co.com/KctvWM1Q
https://ibb.co.com/jkzGZ91d
https://ibb.co.com/DgTr3MbJ
Are you contradicting yourself?
Congrats on your first post since February 2025
To be fair, if you read the rest of what he said, it makes sense.
First payment went through, customer happy.
Some days later another payment went through, customer contacted support, support said it wasn't them, so he disputed that second payment with the bank. Then support closed his account for disputing the transaction they said they didn't make.
It's entirely possible OP messed up, but taking what he said at face value, it doesn't sound like it. Although it's also extremely unlikely that this situation would happen.
I suspect what's actually happened is that the first transaction was reverted for some reason and replaced by a second. But even that isn't a normal transaction, so something went wrong somewhere.
Okay, (I may be mistaken) but there's nevertheless a causal link between the OP's dispute and the provider's fraud report. Would you agree?
In other words, if the OP hadn't initiated a dispute, then the provider wouldn't have reported a fraud
Or am I missing something?
Yes, it's puzzling why the OP's card was charged twice -- this detail isn't clear. But the OP doesn't seem to recognize that it was their dispute that led to the fraud report
I already talked to bank. The first payment is intact.
Yeah, I was just taking what he said at face value.
Very selective quoting so it's hard to see any context, complete mess with crypto payments, failed card transactions and paypal payments all in the mix...
I have absolutely no confidence the OP hasn't messed up now!
Just to note that I'm not defending the provider (given the missing details)
What's also odd is the relatively long period of time that has elapsed since mid-December: why would the provider wait until now to report a fraud if the dispute took place in mid-December?
My question also.
We only have one payment via PayPal. The user opened a case after 3 months and the account was terminated.
I attach capture of paypal case
https://ibb.co/
Mod edit (angstrom): removed link to image because buyer info was present
@silicomnet
Please don't post images that reveal buyer info and shipping address
(I'm tempted to issue you a warning for this)
So it looks like the OP (= @MetalDragon ) paid via PayPal in mid-December and then opened a PayPal dispute on March 7th
@MetalDragon , is this what you did?
This wasn't at all clear from your opening post
@silicomnet
I don't like to curse, but bloody hXll, hide the buyer's personal info completely
This means: no name, no email address, and no postal address should be visible/readable at all
Edit: For context, this was after the provider posted an image for a second time. I removed that post
That's not true. You opened a dispute yesterday. PayPal will refund your money in 21 days, your account has been deleted and permanently blocked from making new purchases. You're the only one who committed fraud by using the 3-month free service.
Unfortunately not uncommon with some WHMCS payment modules. If you forget to fill out some irrelevant required field on the order form and hit pay now, the charge will go through but the payment will error out server-side. Usually the module will revert the payment within some hours because of the error; it cannot match the received funds to an invoice.
But all of this is besides the point. OP says he paid by card. Host says user paid by paypal. Which is it? OP says it was a lifetime deal. Host says it was a 3-month-free deal. Bait-n-switch?
I don't think that the host said this exactly
I understood that the OP got three months for free because he got a full refund after the PayPal dispute
That said, it's not clear to me how/why the OP won the PayPal dispute
Provider said the second one, the fraudulent one, wasn't them.
Why would I open a dispute after 3 months? Show me one valid logical reason. It's 20$ not 200/2000. Also I paid from card not from paypal
It's possible the credit card payment used PayPal as the credit card processor.
Even though I can't open dispute on paypal.
The thing is I paid from my card directly on a link provided by them. I don't even have a paypal account. I contacted the bank they said the payment is with Silicom and they didn’t made any dispute.
Update: I did send mail for a payment method so that I can pay and save my site. No reply. No response.
Your account has been deactivated, and PayPal will refund your money. We will not reactivate your account. We will not accept your money back. Who can guarantee that you won't open another dispute within the next three months? You have been permanently blocked.
How did you even find them and willingly sign up for a lifetime plan? They don't seem to advertise here.
Refunded
Buyer's transaction ID
5HM75316E93157143
Your transaction ID
7WH694398D560434J
Invoice ID
INV2-GW92-PZY6-SF79-PKKM
Transaction date
12 December 2025
Transaction amount
$20.00 USD
Disputed amount
$21.16 USD
Dispute Fee of $8.00 USD + 3 month of free services. We don't want customers like you.
Interesting. I thought dispute fees were around $25.