Saying it's easier for surfers to charge to their phone bills than their credit cards, especially with coming changes in payment processing for the adult Internet, Adult Entertainment Broadcating Network has teamed up with GoodThinxx Dialer System.
GoodThinxx spokeswoman Holly Moss said the dialer could be online with AEBN as soon as a month, once full testing is finished. The system will also be given a demonstration at next month's Internext in Hollywood, Florida.
"I am excited about the opportunity to work with a solid content provider like AEBN," said Moss. "I look forward in our relationship as AEBN International partners.”
Dialer systems work through popup windows, offering viewers a telephone number they can use to reach a system that supplies an access code through a recorded message. If the phone remains off the hook, the code stays active, and the surfer pays per minute direct to his phone bill, but when he hangs up the code becomes inactive and access privilege stops.
Unfortunately, over several years one of the headaches of the Internet – especially the adult Internet – has been from scammers who use such systems and configure them in ways that surfers get routed to those new phone connections without even knowing it, even after they've closed popup windows following their rejection of whatever was offered.
AEBN, however, said the GoodThinxx dialer will be set up to work strictly through the AEBN pay-per-view system – and that would-be scam hijackers trying to lift it for their own frauds would have an impossible time doing it.
"It works through our pay per view system, it goes through our system before it goes anywhere else," Hawke said. "That has proved to be consistently difficult to break into." She said anyone who tried to hijack the dialer for scam re-routing would face a problem because the AEBN/GoodThinxx system is set up to lock up, once its detected that someone is trying to break in and use the system but the would-be hijacker can't stopped at the outset.
"If someone dumps us with a really nasty virus, or actually try to steal the system itself, if it gets too far, the system will shut down," Hawke continued. "But most of the time, the system will just track them back to the source. We've been in business since 1995, we've never sold a single e-mail, we've protected our Webmasters and our viewers, these are the people feeding us. The last thing we want is to make these people unhappy, so we're certainly not going to let anyone piggyback onto our system."
Moss said honestly-run dialers can be a better than viable alternative for people desperate to find alternative billing systems. "I think in last years we've been working the perception of the dialers has been changing," she said. "And we don't allow anything shady. I don't think the larger companies we work with would be working with us if we were shady."
