This isn’t the first time my nephew Tony has turned on me (but it will definitely be the last, since I will never trust him again). Back in 2001, he did exactly the same thing. I found the old emails, so here they are.

A little background… A couple of years before this I allowed Tony to use my credit card to pay for his internet service. He ran up two massive monthly charges before (on my prompting) he contacted AOL & changed to a flat rate tariff. They wouldn’t refund the charges, but gave him a year’s free internet. I told him there was no hurry to pay me back. It’s important to realize this was not about money. After all, if you let someone use your card, you can’t blame anyone but yourself if things go wrong! I just asked him to make sure he found a different ISP &/or payment method before the year was up.

But almost one year later – as the time approached when AOL would debit my card again – he hadn’t done anything about it & was ignoring my mails. So I sent him the following email.

Hi Ant

Is there any reason why you're ignoring my mails? If so, I'd rather we talked/wrote about it.

Chris

Tony’s response was unbelievable…