„Watch out when buying porn sites!“
As mentioned elsewhere, countless webmasters are not afraid to rip off their customers with unfair means.
In order to protect you from various methods, we would like to give you some assistance with this guide, which is to be considered when visiting erotic sites.
On this guidebook page, we would like to inform you about various schemes of the erotic scene.
Subscription rip-off (Re-Billing)
That almost all payment erotic sites offer subscriptions is somehow understandable to us. The user gets for 20 to 30 dollars hundreds of videos offered for download, where the single piece in the store already costs 20 dollars each.
The operator can only optimally develop and expand the project if people can be billed with several months of re-bills. In a way, it is a mixed calculation: In the first month, the operator pays on it and after two to three rebills, the effort and costs are amortized.
But, unfortunately, the content is often not nearly as good as advertised in the preview area and people don’t see the point of paying money for it every month. Therefore, many webmasters deliberately hide or conceal the fact that the billing method is a monthly subscription.
The customer forgets to cancel and is billed until he notices it on his credit card bill the following month.
Our tips against Internet rip-offs:
- To avoid the subscription trap, should look for cancellation notices and hidden information right when signing a sex site contract.
- It’s best to print out the login data and e‑mails or store them safely away so that you don’t forget to cancel if the offer is not what you expected.
- If you want to be on the safe side, you can cancel the subscription immediately after signing up. The term of 30 days remains
- Used a rechargeable prepaid credit card
Co-booking of other member areas (ABO rip-off)
Another lousy scam is that when signing the contract, checkboxes with other website offers are checked. You then have real trouble figuring out who the biller is and how to cancel the subscription.
Our tips
- Really pay attention to what you click on and read EVERYTHING carefully
- If the partner sites are interesting, bookmark them and sign up later
Email spam
There are unfortunately also black „black sheep“ among billers and site operators who use the email address for the promotion of their own projects or even resell to other companies.
In the case of sites without a privacy policy or if a corresponding passage is written in the terms and conditions that the data will be transmitted to partners, the alarm bells should ring.
Our tips
- Do not use an important email address for any erotic project, e.g. for your normal correspondence.
- NEVER enter your email address on porn sites to get the price displayed (this is unserious, and spam is guaranteed).
- Do not enter your email address in a form, even for free pictures.
- Beware of newsletter offers.
- Read our reviews to see if the billing company or website is known for spam.
- If possible, register a disposable email address or use an email address that has been set up especially for spam.
- Read the terms and conditions to see if there is anything about SPAM.
The following free e‑mail services (with online mailbox) are suitable for the erotic sector:
- Gmail (Googlemail) – Best choice!
- GMX
- Safe-Mail.net
Unsuitable are Freenet and T‑Online, because the payment and booking confirmations are sometimes blocked by the mail server without a warning!
Do not use disposable e‑mail addresses!
Temporary email addresses (also called disposable, instant and one-time email addresses) that expire after 30 minutes or 24 hours (e.g. emailgo.de, nervmich.net, safe-mail.de etc.) should not be used. After all, you will need your booking data, customer numbers, etc. a few days or weeks after registration to cancel the subscriptions!
Secret spy scripts
For whatever reason – resourceful site providers (mostly from free sites, TGP lists or link farms) try to load any ActiveX, Java scripts or other spy programs to get out more information about the user.
Our tips:
- Activate virus scanner! Basically, no porn site surfer should surf around without a virus scanner and firewall!
- Do not use Internet Explorer for surfing! Rather, use the Firefox browser.
- Kaspersky Internet Security effectively watches out for websites tampering with system settings.
Annoying pop-ups
Who doesn’t know them – the annoying pop-ups that pop up unasked in front of and behind the web page when you enter or leave a page. Some pop-ups are programmed so brazenly that the box „runs away“ from the mouse or no EXIT button has been included.
Popups are annoying and not entirely harmless, because webmasters can also start scripts to either spy on the user, or to introduce Trojans and viruses on the visitor’s PC.
Even though all browsers now have a pop-up killer, resourceful website programmers are always figuring out ways to outsmart them.
Our tips:
- Use the Firefox Browser – there are anti-spam add-ons for this browser that can be easily installed (e.g. AdBlock)
- Turn off JavaScript and Java for the surfing session, if you do not know how trustworthy the website is.
- The Kaspersky Internet Security has a very effective pop-up blocker.
Excessive banner advertising
Banners are advertising spaces where webmasters try to curry favor with visitors as much as possible. They fidget, blink and flash. Some banners are so annoying that you try to cover the banner to look at the pages in peace. Some webmasters can’t get enough and pack several banners under each other.
Not dangerous, but annoying.
Our tip:
- UseFirefox browser
(there are also free AdOns to install – eg AdBlock ) - Kaspersky Internet Security has a very effective banner blocker
Hiding the prices
There are providers, especially in German-speaking countries, who hide their prices behind an email address field. Only after entering the email address, you will be redirected to the page with the prices. If one does not want to book the offer now nevertheless, the offerer has one thing: Your email address! We have made several times the test, and lo and behold: One is almost overwhelmed with spam from the provider. We find this scam lousy.
Other providers hide the prices as far as possible. Only in the booking window, the prices appear very small.
Our tips:
- Never enter your email address to see the prices.
- Don’t even visit projects without price transparency
„Everything for free!“ and „Free Pics“
A very popular scam is to suggest to the visitor that the site is free. Flashing graphics with „Free Pics“ and „Everything Free“ are not uncommon. All you have to do is enter your email address or register in a form.
Our tip:
- Caution! Nobody has anything to give away!
Either you pay with a „burned“ email address (term for an email address that is spammed full) or the content of the page is lousy. Mostly it is only advertising platforms with demo content for commercial member areas. - Really well content is only available in the paid member areas anyway.
If we should have forgotten something, we would be pleased about a hint as a comment.