However shopping online can sometimes cause trouble. In May 2002 a thirteen-year
old schoolboy from Ohio, USA, got into trouble when he spent over US$ 2 million at
an online auction. The boy had stolen a password for an auction site from his friends mother. During a science class at school, the boy logged on to the auction site and
bought a jet plane and a helicopter. His friends mother found out what had happened
the next day when the owner of the helicopter called her to ask how she wanted to pay!