Ripped Off By An Adult Site?
Were you ever ripped off by an adult site? Charged after they claimed you wouldn’t be? Overbilled? Double, triple, quadruple-billed? Finding strange charges on your statement under different names, soon after you signed up to a porn or sex site? Did those charges increase gradually over the months?
Post your experience here and if you prefer to remain anonymous, ask me not to post it. I respect people’s decisions to remain anonymous. For the record, however, it lends more credibility to post it out in public rather than provide a tip in privacy. The sites are well-known for playing games and stoop to posing as customers, lying and scheming to find out what information is out there in their efforts to conceal what we all know to be fraud.
Provide as many details you can, no matter how insignificant or irrelevant they may seem. Often, this can work to expose key patterns.
Significant information would include the following:
- What was the name of the company that appeared on your credit card statement, beside the charge?
- Have you received charges from other companies, under names which were unfamiliar to you, that you suspect may also be them? What were those names?
- When confronted about the suspicious charge, did customer service refund your money or offer to issue you a site credit?
Click Reply to respond. Any information would be appreciated but please keep it strictly to facts. Assumptions and personal thoughts or theories are of no use.
You may also contact me on Twitter @ amanda36c. If you’ve read my blog, the answer to why I’m asking this should be obvious.
Have a nice weekend everyone!
Stan are discussing. 
amanda36c 
Stan 9:21 am on May 18, 2015 Permalink |
I joined this porn site about 2 yrs ago. They said all over their membership was free and that I only had to give them my credit card to verify my age. They ended up taking monthly payments different amounts each time. To my knowledge it was only under one name. Anyway this went on for several months before I noticed and when I called the company to dispute the charges, the customer service rep accused me of entering a “premium” pay per minute session without reading first. I gave her the benefit of the doubt and when we hung up I went back to see what I missed the first time. There was no mention of any charge that I could see. It took a third visit for me to notice the small print way on the bottom right tucked away under what appeared to be just a legal disclaimer. I called her back and she passed me to some guy who was very rude and refused to listen to anything I had to say. When I threatened to go to my bank and demand they remove the charges he quickly offered me a credit but said he’s have to close my account. I said no I wanted a complete refund and after ten minutes arguing he agreed to refund all the charges. That sounded right to me. My calculations totalled 743.90 but his amount was around 400 less. We argued for another 15 minutes on that and settled on 826 after picking apart each amount on my credit card bill. He closed my account with me right there on the line and assured me that the money would be in my account in a few days. So it happened right along the lines of what you were saying. He tried to get me to open a new account during that same conversation but I didn’t feel comfortable with doing that. I called my bank to cancel that credit card and am never going back on that or any other site again. I sent you an email with the company details if you want to have a look. The information given here along with the billing info might give away who I am. That is not a place I want to go. Thank you Amanda for all you are doing to stop these thieves. I hope one day you get what you deserve and they get theirs. Please keep updating your blog and stay diligent. Your a diamond in the rough young lady.
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amanda36c 1:32 pm on May 18, 2015 Permalink |
Thanks for sharing, Stan. I’m not surprised at all that this has happened to you. Compared to reports I’ve read from others, you were treated exceptionally well. I know of two of those companies you mentioned. I just wasn’t aware that they billed under those strange names. Odd for an adult site. Check your inbox. 🙂
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