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digp

sporedude wrote: »

These services usually only charged if they are requested using the shortcode...

Rubbish. That is simply untrue.

digp

diamonds wrote: »

payphoneplus said they had no remit to stop the 5 doing it as per thier regulation plan passed to them from Ofcom, it was an Ofcom matter & I could not even get 1 MSE to back up me with a 2nd complaint

Get your MP involved.

sporedude

Untrue? Unless the companies select people at random then I wonder how else people get subscribed?

diamonds

sporedude wrote: »

Untrue? Unless the companies select people at random then I wonder how else people get subscribed?

and thats what payforit is for, selecting people in random as a backfall, how do you contest your network of such when THEY approved it through cowboy companies ?

diamonds

digp wrote: »

Get your MP involved.

he was not interested as Ofcom being a governing body would not allow such to happen - bloody public sector workers are the poorest of anywhere in the UK they make 3 India look like platinum service Amex

sporedude

Ive seen alot of customers subscribe to 3rd party services then try to weasel their way out of paying for them, Even though it shows clearly on the bill it was subscribed to.

wantmemoney

sporedude wrote:

Ive seen alot of customers subscribe to 3rd party services then try to weasel their way out of paying for them, Even though it shows clearly on the bill it was subscribed to.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/consumer_affairs/article5002795.ece
Even more worrying, however, is the growing trend among premium-rate companies to target people who have not given them their details. Most usually a company acquires contact details by buying lists of data from other companies. “Buying and selling of contact details is big business,” Mr Bates says. “Lists of phone numbers are passed around the industry. If your number is on one of these lists, you could receive a text about anything.”
For example, many price comparison websites sell on the data of people who have asked for quotes on their sites, as do many online retailers. The premium-rate providers then pay for these lists.

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sporedude

Lesson to be learned, Dont post your number on price comparison sites ect, and your number wont be sold on

lazmo67

My 11 year old daughter unwittingly subscribed to one of these services and is now being charged £3 a week for a service (78881 habbo) she doesn't want. Cancelling it is almost impossible. texting STOP and STOP ALL does not work. I tried phoning MBLOX who give you another number to phone that turns out to be Sulake an american company who are difficult to get hold off, to say the least. I think my next course of action is Ofsted. Please follow suit and complain too, this is nothing but a scam preying in unsuspecting youngsters!

If any one has a couse of action that cancels these services please post it.