Age verification systems and fraud

Dempsey

Has anyone ever being prosecuted for entering an invalid password into a Age verification system on the net. A friend of mine got someone elses id and password and tried it and all this legal stuff came up that he will be reported for credit card fraud, blah blah blah. I told he forget about it, but he thinks they will come after him. Does anyone know how serious this is or is it a method of deterring minors?

dogs

Tell your "friend" to stop looking at dodgy pr0n sites.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

dogs.... talk sense man!

phobos

I doubt very much that he should worry, but I wouldn't get in to the habbit of entering seedy porn web sites. It's fairly obvious that he was trying to access content of that, or a similar nature. These web sites tend to host some of the most intrusive web applications I've ever seen. As regards the messages that he saw, well that all depends. If the messages came up instantly, (like the next web page to be displayed), I wouldn't worry. Because it was just a warning from some web application sitting on the server. The worst case scenario is that it logged his IP, and local username. Clear out his browser cache (most importantly cookies), and say no more about it.

The internet is a strange place to those that expect things to go according to plan. If you could imagine a world where people think they can get away with something because they think nobody is looking, well, that place is indeed the internet. Just because your sitting at home, locked behind some door, doesn't mean that your actions remain private to the world, if someone wants to find you, they will. But it depends how bad they want to find you.

No more ranting from me, just simple advice. Don't abuse the internet, or it will eventually abuse you. :eek:

;-phobos-)

Dempsey

It displayed his IP address and the time he tried to access it. It showed the time as well but 5 hours behind. It came up as the next web page

phobos

Well that was definately a web application that just generated some dynamic content, and used to to try and scare potential fraudsters off. It obviously worked

The kind of thing you saw is easily done, and I wouldn't be worried about it unless, the information was logged in a DB. We know it was a web app, and not some client side script because the program was executed on a server on the east coast of the States, hence getting a time (GMT-5). Don't get too worried about it, because I bet it was just a way for them to scare people off. On that note you would be amased what information people can get about you just because you visited some site.

I think people should be better educated as to how the internet works, and also privacy.

;-phobos-)