Yahoo! and Net2Phone - failse advertising and security issues
I recently subscribed to Yahoo! Phone Card, just to try it out.
Looking at their tour pages it says:
Failse advertising? I guess yes...
One more annoyance - all pages to work with account (call detail, billing, add funds, etc) are secured with https:
And this is dangerous as well... letting untrusted content on the same page as secured content is asking for trouble!
I'll call net2phone next week to complain...
You can too, here is contact information (from Yahoo! help pages):
1-877-333-1196
[email protected]
Looking at their tour pages it says:
"With Yahoo! Phone Card, you only pay for the calls you make. There is no monthly fee, no surcharges, no extra taxes."
Well... Just checked my balance and I see:
| 1 |  |
Jun 14, 2005 | |
Credit Card Payment | |
Success | |
3**********2008 | |
US$25.00 |
| 2 | |
Jul 14, 2005 | |
Service Charge | |
Success | |
|
(US$1.99) |
Failse advertising? I guess yes...
One more annoyance - all pages to work with account (call detail, billing, add funds, etc) are secured with https:
https://dcs.net2phone.com/account/yahoo/english/calls.asp
But! Most annoying advertisement comes from: http://mds.centrport.net
No SSL, and IE security prompt on each page! And this is dangerous as well... letting untrusted content on the same page as secured content is asking for trouble!
I'll call net2phone next week to complain...
You can too, here is contact information (from Yahoo! help pages):
1-877-333-1196
[email protected]
2005-07-30 04:41:06 GMT