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 friend’s mother. During a science class at School, the boy logged on to the auction site and bought a jet plane and a helicopter. His friend’s mother found out what had happened the next day when the owner of the helicopter called her to ask how she wanted to pay!