TL;DR: Plan International billed me several hundred dollars over the course of several years for a charity I will never see tax exempted because they misnamed me. Consequently it was beyond hell trying to cancel my subscription with them

I'm serious. If I can feel justified destroying an entire charity organisation over a matter of 105$ I can't imagine what it would be like to be one of those terrorists going around blowing themselves up.

As I mentioned I was unable to find my transaction using the bank software. I know it will show up, but it is tedious. So I made a stop payment and wanted to wait until ... tomorrow to find out what payments were stopped, and then I can find out what details they listed me as. There were several possible conclusions that could have happened: I find out there were no stop payments, and thus my money was being taken by some third party that isn't the charity, or I find out that they put my details incorrectly.

Instead of waiting until tomorrow I went today to the bank. Typically the bank isn't as helpful as I would like because .. well, personal banking employees don't have that much power. However the teller had the phone contacts of a manager, and was able to pull the transaction details for my account. Thank God, because I can't (business banking access).

When you pull a transaction up, you can see several things: the account numbers, and the client details of the payer as stated by the payee. In other words, the 'name' they wrote as me, and the customer number. I don't have the customer number (ugh) and they were not able to find me by my name. So red flags were flying EVERYWHERE for the past few months.

Guess what - my name is Chan Mitchael. First name last name. Fucking idiots.

The bank teller was able to get the information and canceled my account for me. Bloody amazing. I did not have access to the database her ex-manager accessed (I wonder if one of my colleagues does?), so I would not have been able to figure this out until tomorrow or sometime much later (when I decide to manually go through every transaction for 35$ for November 2nd).

You know what this means too -- because my name is now Chan Mitchael it explains why I haven't been receiving any tax exemptions for that amount.

The next time anybody asks me to donate something for charity I will kick them in the face