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FOR SALE sign - "Text for Details" SCAM
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Noticed a house for sale in Manchester and it had a 'text for details' sign on it.... with a unqiue code to send.
I sent the code twice (1st time I mistyped) and got a price texted back.
Just got my monthly mobile bill thru and it turns out to be a premium rate £1+ text....without warning
Anyone else noticed/ experienced this....surely by law they have to warn you of the cost?
I sent the code twice (1st time I mistyped) and got a price texted back.
Just got my monthly mobile bill thru and it turns out to be a premium rate £1+ text....without warning
Anyone else noticed/ experienced this....surely by law they have to warn you of the cost?
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I think they do if they are charging premium rates - try reviewing the ICSTIS site and make a complaint - you should probably complain also to the agent who is displaying the sign. Are you certain that price information was not displayed on the sign in tiny print somewhere...?
http://www.icstis.org.uk/consumers/default.asp
Although this is much the same with 0870 numbers, which don't currently have to display the costs, yet generally cost far more to call than an ordinary land-line number as free or low cost tariffs don;t include calls to 0870 numbers....another profit making scam.0
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