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Brother stole our mom's credit card, bought some stuff online. What is it?
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So my mom called me and was pretty pissed that she has like $150 charged to one of her credit cards. I've seen the bill and traced it to playdom.com. From what I can tell it's at least legit and not porn, which is something, however, beyond that I have no idea what he would be buying there and how it would cost him $150.
Well, I have some idea; although I don't partake in the myspace or facebook, I'm passing familiar with the games on them. Kind of browser-based mmo stuff, but I thought they were free. I'll have to assume that they're using a cash shop like other free mmos do, but what would he be buying? More importantly, is it a subscription or a one time cost? She'll be double pissed if she gets billed again next month.
As an aside, is there any chance either the credit card company or this website would do anything about it? Would she at least be able to shut his accounts down or something?
Well, I have some idea; although I don't partake in the myspace or facebook, I'm passing familiar with the games on them. Kind of browser-based mmo stuff, but I thought they were free. I'll have to assume that they're using a cash shop like other free mmos do, but what would he be buying? More importantly, is it a subscription or a one time cost? She'll be double pissed if she gets billed again next month.
As an aside, is there any chance either the credit card company or this website would do anything about it? Would she at least be able to shut his accounts down or something?
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As for what he bought, similar games allow you to spend real money on extra turns or items or other useless shit.
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Playdom itself may or may not give you details about what the charges were for (I wouldn't bother asking them to reverse the charges, they probably won't, I'd let your CC company force the money out of them). Sometimes even though your card was used, technically the billing details of the account would be private to the account owner. Not all companies take privacy seriously, though. If you contact them you can easily find out what they will do for you as the card owner.
But yeah, she should call the credit card company -- they'll investigate and almost certainly refund the money and then it's their problem to get the money from the merchant.
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Hopefully he isnt getting addicted to online gambling.
(Online) gambling is bad mmkay.
How old is your brother?
And he's 15. I think it's probably Mod Wars or something. I'm pretty sure I've seen him playing one of those games before.
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And on top of that some internet deprevation or online grounding. He needs to know that this is not done.
If you tell them that you know who did it, they will make you press charges against the person in order to get a refund, you must submit the police report to them. If you don't they will launch an investigation and refund your money after they have determined that it was indeed fraud.
When I used to work for the credit card fraud department, I'd often talk to people who had one purchase and claimed that it was fraud. Things did not go well for them. I would not lie to them. Its not worth it for $150.00.
He owes your mom $150, doesn't get anything at all (no net, no gas, nothing) until it's paid off. Easy as that.
You would be reporting theft and fraud.
A cursory investigation would reveal that
1. your lying or
2. you know too much and not pressing charges
3. you made purchases with the card after it was 'stolen'
I don't know how credit card companies operate but I would head MagicToaster's words because they sound right to me.
Really I was more concerned with what was being purchased. Specifically, that they would be one time fees; he's taken a credit card before and subscribed to something that was getting her charged monthly and it took her a while to even figure out what she was being charged FOR.
We'll figure something out. She's already taken away his computer and we'll see about the rest.
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He's done this BEFORE? Lay down the hammer!
Aside from that, I'm sure she doesn't want advice on how to discipline her own son.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
I know that the ones on the iPhone - which as far as I can tell are basically 'ports' of these so called MMOs from Facebook - credits can be purchased in batches of at least $25, possibly more. So it wouldn't take much to run up $150 if you were the sort of person with the mental retardation required to actually want to play these games enough that you needed to buy the energy and not just wait for it to recharge. Basically you are buying 'energy' (aka action points) so you can do more stuff per hour, usually missions or what have you where the only interaction is ensuring you have the necessary requirements for the mission in terms of energy and inventory and then pressing a single button, once. Mission completed. Buy more energy or wait for it to recharge to do the same thing again. I'm pretty certain it's modelled on some layer of hell. I'd be more concerned about the fact that he's playing these games at all than the money he's wasted on them. To me it suggests he may have serious mental health issues.
Seriously, slap him, eBay his sneakers and ban him from being stupid.
This is why all stores keep a signed receipt of any debit/credit card transaction beyond theft control purposes.