Victim irks iTunes scam
When buying notifications iTunes blocked in the morning a Capital Region resident e-mail Monday, a total of $ 280 went directly to your teen.
“You know, like a typical father I was like, ‘let me get a hold of this kid,’” Joe Sacchetti said. “You know, what did he just buy?”
Sacchetti quickly learned that someone had cut into account. She immediately canceled the credit card and asked an Apple representative, who indicated the need to communicate with iTunes. But he said that iTunes is not accessible by phone, e-mail only.
So Sacchetti e-mail a form describing your problem to iTunes. A response came two days later. By then, more fraudulent charges had to endure.
“When I tried to ask him to reverse the charges he said it can’t be done, that I have to file fraud charges against iTunes with my bank,” he said.
Sacchetti said that is unfair.
“It’s commerce,” he said. “You have the ability to refund the money, you can do it.”
An application developer hacked user accounts, but do not have servers. A spokesman declined to say how many people could be affected, but Apple said this week online technology has been around 400 users. Experts believe the number is higher.
“Even if it is one dollar, if someone doesn’t go through this huge process to try to get this money reversed, to try to get this money back, iTunes gets to keep that money.”





