A newspaper columnist here has a .complaint - he got stuck with someone else's bill for Internet porn.
San Francisco Examiner columnist Rob Morse says his Visa credit card bill last month included a $55.95 charge from "a string of seemingly meaningless lowercase letters ending in '.com'."
In his column published in Wednesday's Examiner, Morse said he figured that, since he'd never used his credit card for any online purpose before, someone was likely pretending to be himself.
"The charge was from an Internet billing company with a completely unhelpful Web site," he wrote. He contacted the company, asked what the billing was about, and was told he was "being billed for porn somebody else was ogling.
"I was too weirded-out at the moment to write down the name of the porn site," Morse continued, "but it sounded like he said the bill was from some Web site with 'sexhaven' in the name, dot something or other."
Morse wrote that he searched and found five variations of "sexhaven" on the Net, from five different locations in the eastern U.S. and in England, but didn't bother going into any of the sites. "The last thing I wanted," he said, "was to become further ensnared in the Web sites that were costing me money with no sight of skin in return."
AVN On the Net's own search of "sexhaven" online brought twenty individual results but only three Web sites on Excite's search engine. The three - Sex Planets (www.sexplanets.com), Porn City (www.porncity.net), and Hot Sitez - are Web portals specialising in adult sites. Sex Planets hosts, among other adult sites, a free site called Sex Haven.
