Son used debit card without consent , advice needed.

The_Corrupt_Banker

Look, it's precisely to prevent stuff like this happening that Sony have Master and Sub accounts. Create a master account for yourself and a sub-account for your son and there will be no problems in the future.

I'm too new to be able to post links so you'll have to search for it, or perhaps someone else can link to an Sony's guide on this.

bris

iandev wrote: »

I sympathise with the poster, it's not the parents fault, it's the fault of PSN - I've been unfortunate enough to have been in the same position....twice! by my 12yr son, the first time he tried he used mine and my wifes debit and credit cards on both occasions there were extra security/verification checks so he was unsucessful so he used my corporate AMEX card and promptly took £50 off it, that took a bit of explaining at work, PSN were crap when I called them and really unhelpful I asked how a card could be used that didn't match the name of the "account" holder, they couldn't give me an answer I eventually managed to get the account cancelled, but had to wait 2 weeks to be able to access the account he created. I set up new passwords to access wifi on the playstation, that was around 12 mth ago, today I checked my bank statement and there were transaction from sony entertainment europe.....£35 in total I have confronted him and his younger brothers and he's done it again using my wifes debit card (the same one he tried to use previously) so it seems sony are not using the card authentication process, I have yet to contact sony but won't be doing so over the phone as you inevitably won't really be able to understand the call handlers. So all in all, it's not the parents fault, it's the actions of the child and the negligence of sony allowing any old card to be used to allow purchase of there goods. BTW, my son is awaiting a formal diagnosis for either ADHD or Autism - not that it's an excuse just handy to know.

So you know your son is a thieving little toe rag and yet you still leave your cards lying around for him to use? Little tip hide your cards.

You are anyone else can not blame anyone else for their kids stealing their cards to use, the companies are not going to know who's entering the details are they.

Do your kids really deserve an on line console if they are stealing from you with it? Think about it.

Gemma__3

Ive read where people have said that why don't Sony decline the transaction if the cardholder or account names don't match

Well the card systems/British Banking systems don't use names so you can put "Donald Duck" as a name and itll process the transaction. Sony and the like process them as "Cardholder not present" transactions

zagfles

Err...this thread is over a year old. The OP hasn't been on MSE since December. She's not going to read the latest rants.

Venusflytrap

But others will and hopefully be forewarned before getting burnt by their kids!

leeroy2009

id of sold his console if that had been my child simple as that.

Gemma__3

Why don't we at the same time keep him under the stairs like they did in the Harry Potter book?

leeroy2009

Gemma_ wrote: »

Why don't we at the same time keep him under the stairs like they did in the Harry Potter book?

nah, the chockie from matilda.