Kids Use Pre Paid Credit Cards to Buy Booze

Posted by Tom Wilkins on Wed 5th September 2007 at 06:00 AM, Filed in Credit News

In a sting operation backed by the People (a British newspaper), reporters from the paper caught various retailers selling pre paid credit cards without ID checks. Kids are known to use these cards for purchasing alcohol, weapons and gambling online.

From it’s research, the People established that that UK youngsters can obtain pre-payment cards for as little as £3 from shops and newsagents with negligible checks on age, name or address.

These cards can then be used by youngsters to buy adult goods and services online.

The teenager used by the paper to expose this story said:

“It was unbelievable how easy it was, Kids at school buy these cards so they can order stuff off the internet. Once you have one, you can get away with just about anything.”

UK law specifies that credit cards are only available to those over the age of 18 and even then the individual must go through rigorous credit checks and reference checks. Whether these checks are rigorous enough seems to be questionable.

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