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Google Cloud (over)Run: How a free trial experiment ended with a $72,000 bill overnight

martinusher Silver badge

Same old...

This reminds me of the paid phone service bait and switch scams where you'd have to call a premium number to get some information, the trick being to get you to call a really expensive premium number. (The North American system of area codes covered places in the Carrabbean so users would be unaware they were calling internationally.) The phone companies could have easily put a stop to those scams because they were necessary for the scammers to get paid. They never did because they were getting a cut.

Then there's the colleague who showed one of his kids how he ordered stuff with his iPad. That cost him about $700 in 'in game purchases' before he got the bill and closed the door. Nobody, but nobody, runs up that kind of bill but everyone's happy to let them fully knowing that they're getting a cut of the loot (they don't call the things 'loot boxes' for nothing.....).

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