So, you can get away with blowing >$100k on adwords and nobody bats an eye (he was auto-billed), but on AWS I can't spin up more than a few elastic IPs or EBS volumes without going through verification hoops :)
No the story, is bullshit.
You will get charged the first 250$, after that it will be increased to 500$. And only upped once the payment is complete.
This continues for a few more steps.
So you can't spend 100K on a new account.
This entire story just sounds like pure BS.
Google has a LOT of stuff against fraud, especially on it ads business. As it's the core ...
He was being billed from his savings account. It was only when the threshold increased (which Google increases after some time) that the bank raised the warning. (Source: The Register)
Yes, but you have to be a teenager with very crappy videos about your music group. Probably with better quality videos or being over 18 wouldn't have the same consequences from Google.
I heard that you can owe money to Facebook as well. Recently a story broke out that a page got removed because they didn't pay 20k euros for advertisement. I had a paid ad once and got billed 2 months later...
I really thought I had to add a credit card before I could use adwords,and that they charge at the end of the first month.
I feel like there's something missing from this story.