rogue texts

Saint_Chris

Daughter has a contract phone. And for the past few days she has been receiving texts asking her to access a pop site. She has just deleted these messages. Should i be worried and are these the texts that cost a fortune. Should i ring 02 tomorrow and get a up-date of the ammount of her bill. Or am i worrying about nothing.

kaaloo

Yes you need to worry! Im still waiting for a solution to this act of theft.

It appears that companys can text you without your consent and then charge you £1.50+ to receive there rubbish.

Your phone company will say there is nothing they can do because the truth of the matter is they make a hell of a lot of money from this scam and dont want to lose the revenue.

Please Please let me know if you work out how to rectify the matter - The TPS route is a joke - it doesnt stop anything.

K ;D

TREVORCOLMAN

This happened to me a while ago. I had a new phone from orange. Got a quiz text and deleted it. When bill arrived orange had charged me 50p. Ok its not much but thats not the point. Rang orange and explained that I had a totally unsolicted text. They said I had contacted the same number on one of my other phones previously. I HAD NOT, the number I had texted was Radio 5 live which I do from time to time. I also expained that this phone I did not use for texts. They could not argue as there were no texts on the bill. They say they did not give out my number, but I suspect they did. Anyway they have refunded the cost. As I said its only 50p but where does it stop!

barjam_2

my son has received two text since xmas day telling him he has an admirer etc... (he's 8yr old) ring this no. to find out who 0906..... he has been deleting them straight away it hasnt been charging though, thankfully i know the 02 sim cards have been previously used but this shouldnt be allowed you should be able to block text from certain numbers!!!!

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millie

I have had the same text (Secret Admirer) yesterday and the day before, I am on contract so was not sure whether I was being charged for it . But hopefully not if your son has not been charged, so I will continue just to delete them but they are a real nusance the one came at 3.00 in the morning and woke me up.

Jazzy_B

my son has received two text since xmas day telling him he has an admirer etc... (he's 8yr old) ring this no. to find out who 0906.....  he has been deleting them straight away it hasnt been charging though, thankfully i know the 02 sim cards have been previously  used  but this shouldnt be allowed   you should be able to block text from certain numbers!!!!

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Register your mobile number with Telephone Preference Service
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
Hope this helps

millie

I have looked at this before and the preference service says it will not be able to stop texts. It tells you this if you conect via the link and read further down the page

kaaloo

Register your mobile number with Telephone Preference Service
http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/
Hope this helps

Not worth the effort - I registered ages ago and Im still paying to receive such texts - I cant believe such a scam hasnt been controlled yet. I know Watchdog did a feature earlier this year but I missed it.

barjam_2

my son has received his 3rd text since xmas day i am getting annoyed now it seems to be every two days if it keeps happening i will get onto bt if they wont do anything i will changed his simcard or better still i have just had a thought ??? ??? when he gets another text i will check up the no. via icstis and see if i can complain direct to the company !!!!!!!!!!!! anyone know if this will work??

TREVORCOLMAN

I hope it does work barjam it is an absolute scandal. As I said earlier I suspect the mobile provider gives out these numbers - though I doubt they will admit it!


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barjam_2

kaaloo has just posted a site called grumbletext have a look on this forum i am still waiting for my son to get his 4th premium rate text i havn't saved the number from it yet for me to query it....