CMPass - online payment processor

This is probably academic as the CMpass website doesn't appear to be working now.

But you needn't have worried. You don't supply any credit card details to CMpass. Once you register, and choose how much you want to pay, then they give you a high-rate phone number to call.

You call that number and leave the phone off the hook for however long it needs to be, 10 mins or whatever. At the end of that time (if I remember correctly) a voice tells you to hang up, or the call ends. Either way, the amount appears on your phone bill. (And before you jump to conclusions, it's the correct amount). The web site then gives you a pin number.

You enter that pin number into the web site that wanted funding - job done.

No credit card details change hands.:beer:

As for the illegality of MP3Sparks or otherwise - they had my credit card details for years, it was a platinum card too. I never had any fraud occur on the card. It's probably expired now anyway. Don't tar them with the criminal brush just because they're Russian.

MP3Sparks (AllofMP3 as was) pay royalties to a Russian media organisation called ROMS, and ROMS claim to have attempted to pay those royalties to the record labels - who refused them. :rolleyes:

Personally, I wonder who are the greater criminals. Go ask any recording artist how good a deal they think they're getting from their record company. Anyone with any talent/credibility usually sells their own stuff online now anyway.