Have you ever had anything really shady happen to you on the internet? I have and every time I do I feel extremely helpless. The internet is a wonderful and yet bizarre thing. There are really no “eye” witnesses on the internet and when have you ever seen the Internet Police speeding by?
Just 2 weeks ago something extremely strange happened. My 7 year old son asked for a particular movie so I went online in search of the movie download. I found one site. Oddly enough it stated that I had to sign up with a different website in order to pay for the download. It was a porn website. You know you love your kids when you go through the trouble and jump through whatever hoops necessary to adhere to their wishes. The website signed me up for a subscription but stated the first 30 days were free. I thought “well okay” I can cancel as soon as I get the download from the other site”. The weirdest thing was I went back to the original website and the link had disappeared! I e-mailed the porn site immediately and told them not to charge my Pay Pal account. They apparently didn’t care. I just noticed that they did charge my Pay Pal account for $39.99. Pay Pal says I have to call in. We will see what they are going to do about it.

That hasn’t been the first time I have been totally ripped off on the Internet. I bet tons of others have been scammed as well. If you have, please post your experience here. This website is a True Crime Blog – From the People who were there.. USA Eyewitness Accounts. AmericanNeedsYou@TrueCrimeBlog.NET, please post your TRUE INTERNET CRIME AND SCAM ALERTS UNDER THE “INTERNET SCAMS” category and put the internet con-artists out of business.

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