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wealdroam

Intasun32 wrote: »

You are on the wrong forum, post on the mobile phone section, you will find that your friend is not alone and you will get lots of advice and info from other victims.

But clearly, the OP is not looking for advice and info.

In fact, it appears that all he wants is someone to agree with him.

dulcificum

They are regulated and STOP worked, right?

Intasun32

wealdroam wrote: »

But clearly, the OP is not looking for advice and info.

In fact, it appears that all he wants is someone to agree with him.

@Wealdroam,

As someome who, unfortunately, has had first hand experience in dealing with this scam it is clear to me from what 'Hard_earnt_money' has posted they are not aware of why they have been receiving and paying for premium rate texts.

Although the Consumer section of MSE can help, I am sure with many other threads available on this scam as well as members with vast experience in dealing with networks and scam companies in my opinion (for what it is worth) moving the thread was the best advice.

:beer:

It seems that the thread has been moved.

HannahPethen

There is a version of this scam via facebook. It appears as the Pr0file Watcher app which claims to tell you who has been looking at your pages. When you click on the link it takes you to a page where you have to take a 'survey' before you get the results. That 'survey' is in fact signing up to the myquiz2win system. If you click on the survey it takes you to a 'verification type' page, which asks you to enter your phone number for verification. There is no mention of terms and conditions or payment or text messages except for verification. If you enter you phone number, and confirm the text code you're given, it then signs you up. Its easy to do this on the assumption its part of a survey.

Sophia.N.B

You can terminate my account after you read this, I am 12, i do have an email address and everything, but i did the same thing as this dude, now im gonna be charged a lot of money, for something i do not want. My phone is a contract phone so im not losing money MY DAD IS and when the first bill comes he'll be furious, my parents are divorced and my dad lives in stockport and i currently live in shropshire, oswestry, but im moving to ellesmere port, anyway, please help, i tried texting the 60700 number stop but it wouldnt send it, but i can text my dad fine, so its not my phone, dont give me the crap of "im too young to have a phone" or too young for an email account cause i wont really give a !!!!, i just dont want my dad to be !!!!ed cause hes a moneysaver, i love my dad, and i got tricked by this scam cause of a stupid facebook app, im an idiot but this scam is just cruel i mean im a screw up in life i dont want to be costing my dad god knows how much money in the end please help me!

Sophia.N.B

HannahPethen wrote: »

There is a version of this scam via facebook. It appears as the Pr0file Watcher app which claims to tell you who has been looking at your pages. When you click on the link it takes you to a page where you have to take a 'survey' before you get the results. That 'survey' is in fact signing up to the myquiz2win system. If you click on the survey it takes you to a 'verification type' page, which asks you to enter your phone number for verification. There is no mention of terms and conditions or payment or text messages except for verification. If you enter you phone number, and confirm the text code you're given, it then signs you up. Its easy to do this on the assumption its part of a survey.

EXACTLY! Im an idiot, i just wanted to see if my crush visited my profile, i know its stupid, i cant cancel it :'(