How did my friends parents get charged access to a porn site?
 

Well my friend is wondering how did his parents get charged for a porn membership?

Here's and email he has received

From: customerservice@wtsbank.com

To: su______@yahoo.com <---- friends sister's email addy

CC: webmaster@apcentertainment.com

Subject: Membership Cancellation No. 549717

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 017:15:40 -0600
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Membership Cancellation Receipt

Date/Time : Wednesday, January 26, 2005
Cancel Date : 2/18/2005
Site URL: http://www.allaccessreality.com
Username: xxxxx <---- left blank for obvious reasons
Password: xxxxxx <---- ditto
Email : xxxxxx <------ my friends sister's email addy again

Web transaction services

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He also said his parent were charged $39 3 times to their checking account. He says nobody signed up for anything and his parents are the only ones that have access to their checking account, what can he do?

Porn sites are sleazy little hustlers who have inventive ways to separate you from your money. Allot of people actually do not read the little notices that pop up on the screen. And the next thing you know, you’re being billed for a site you've never even been to.

It happen to me once. So now I'm very careful what I click on.

Yeah, but a popup that is able to get your checking account information? Either his parents got phished, or there's some nasty spy/malware on their computer.

contact the bank...they're counting on the victim being too shy to report being swindled by a pr0n site. but as long as they have the account info, they may take more money.

I love it when people say "Huh? Porn site? Wow, I'm shocked! I'd NEVER visit a porn site! That crrraaaaazyyy internet, always magically obtaining my name, e-mail address, and checking account/credit card information out of thin air and making embarrassing purchases on my behalf! Must be one of those viruses or spyware you hear so much about! By the way, how do you clear out that list of websites you visited lately? It's..umm..annoying to see all those...umm...news sites I visited over the past few days, you know."

I used to hear shit like that all the time when I did tech support for an ISP. It was refreshing when I'd actually get calls from people who were honest and said "Hey, I can't get <porn site> to show up, what's wrong?" or "How do I clear the porn sites out of my browser so they don't pop up in the list that drops down?"

Some form of elaborate creditcard fraud? Or mabe a "friend" of the family playing little prank. Or maybe just a hoax from a dishonest pornsite.
His sisters email addy adds her ex/boyfriends to the list aswell. Opportunity and motive.

The first thing they should do is go to the bank and try to get as much info as possible. Maybe even try and contact the pornsite and see if they have logged the IP that used to log in on that account and what IP was used during the inital purchase.
Important stuff if it is someone other than the pornsite itself that is guilty.

Or you know maybe it was the sister. Is she at least 14 or so?
Some girls like porn and maybe she's curious.
Or maybe she did it to spite daddy.
Just remember the whole magic on the internet it usually just bs to get out of something.

Exactly. They figure you'll contact them directly and they'll stop taking your money, but you aren't getting back what they've already taken.

-Mikey

Lol, reminds me of the time we somehow got a $500 phone bill for "sexy teen lolitas" hotline or something.

....Over the course of three months? or all at once? If it was over the course of a couple months, i think somebody just got caught.

Sounds like maybe this is not the whole story on this issue!

Porn sites do not just randomly charge people...

Yeah. Somebody knows a little more than they're letting on. :hmm:

Well my friends sister who lives at home still is about 30 years old, and his brother which is roughly the same age that live down the road comes over and borrows the internet, plus his other brother sometimes comes over to use the computer. They all have their own checking account, and nobody has ever done any online banking with that checking account. I try contaction the webmaster about that site.

Well, the site had to get the account number somehow...they just didn't pull that info out of thin air...

It's one thing to get popups and spam from those sites but the credit information would have to manually put in.. maybe it was some free trial thing someone subscribed to for a month but had to put the information in and then it started renewing?

Bingo, that's gotta be it.

There are lots of ways this could have happened, but with that many people using the computer it would be tough to say. Somone probably did sign up for the free trial. That is a good way for the porn companies to get you suckered in since most people don't call back to cancel.

i say it was the dad...

maybe mommy wasnt "helping" him enuf..

possibbly just curious.. hell maybe hes been doing it for along time and just got stupid.. therfore caught..

anyway.. if its been happenig for 3 seperate months.. id say for sure there was some "secret " stuff going on.. maybe they were doing it together..