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Need Mac to STOP making credit card trans.!
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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Hi:
I have an unusual question. My elderly father (85) loves his Mac, but is getting himself in trouble by ordering online due to the onset of mild demensia. Last week he ordered two Bose radios after seeing a TV add. ($1000) I want to know the best way to stop his iMac (15" G4 Flat Panel 10.3.?) from making credit card transactions. Yes, I know we could take his debit card away, but that creates new problems.
I tried setting Safari to "never accept cookies", but I could still log into his Amazon account. Do I somehow need to clear old cookies?? He loves to do WW11 research, look up old buddies, email, etc. But I need to get this credit card issue resolved.
Thanks in advance;
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Join Date: Nov 2003
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If his account is an admin account revoke those privileges, and enable Parental Controls.
Hmmm.... I wonder if custom CSS could hide credit card number text input field...
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Might have more luck blocking it with the credit card issuer. You can definitely get them to block all transactions over a certain $ amount, and probably block on-line transactions as well.
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Moderator  Join Date: Dec 2000
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Xyphoid has a good idea. Block all over $x or have them lower the credit limit to whatever you want.
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You'll need power of attorney of your father's finances in order to get the bank to do anything to his accounts.
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yes.
and check with the bank -- many institutions have a specific POA format they want you to use. Even though any legit special POA should be acceptable, they're prone to argue with you unless it's their version.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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You can't solve a social/financial/legal problem with a technological solution.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
You can't solve a social/financial/legal problem with a technological solution.
No but with a little work he at least can mitigate the problem while he works out the legal issue.
As you know the wheels of legal sector turn awfully slow.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Originally Posted by MacosNerd
No but with a little work he at least can mitigate the problem while he works out the legal issue.
Shame that no one has mentioned one yet...
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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You could set the firewall to block in & out connections on port 443, this will pretty effectively block access to secure sites over https. That will knock out just about anything that he might spend money on.
This will break other things, but I doubt he's doing anything fancy that requires SSL besides running up the CC bill.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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You could edit his root certificate authorities (available for viewing within the Keychain app) to remove or disable CA entries for the sites he visits. You could have to examine the SSL certs for each site he buys stuff on, and this will break other sites that share the same CA.
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