Premium Rate Mobile Spam/sms Refund Getter

thefirs

I received the first of these scurrilous texts to my numerous mobile accounts on 23 December. I'm surprised that it's taken so long.

Orange CS sometimes gets a lambasting from its customers who don't always get what they want, but I have to say that its response was very good on this occasion. The initial suggestion was - after checking my call history (I assume to verify I was not a ringtone junkie) - that the £1 would be refunded as a one-off goodwill gesture and that I send a STOP message to the originator. Further checks by Orange whilst I stayed on the phone showed 83149 Opera Telecom had levied numerous charges on customer accounts (referred to as an "error") and they would be automatically recrediting accounts by the next billing date. No further action would be required from me.

Steve_xx

RANDY wrote:

Premium rate scam
Another one of those scams going around
It is calling mobile customers randomly, i got a missed call so obviously called it back to see who it was, and was left hanging on until they could find someone to take the call, i got suspicious and hung up.
It appears from my billing it is an International or premium rate nbr.
07094631568
BEWARE the call back to see who called you is not cheap.

Numbers starting 070 are called "Personal Numbers", sometimes referred to as "find me anywhere" numbers. The number is not attached to any one specific device. Instead, the holder of the number can decide which device he wants to point the number at. For instance, the owner can tell the Personal Number to divert any calls made to it to his mobile whilst he's out, or alternatively when in the office he can tell it to deliver calls to the office number. Calls to 070 numbers are deceiving because they look like ordinary mobile numbers due to the fact that they start with 07.

However, as you rightly say, they are tariffed at a higher rate than a call to a mobile device.

My view is that they ought to be reclassified under the 09 Premium rate range of numbers.

MickKnipfler

I think you should send back the word "stop"

jumper_2

Simon Lutrall!

Such a veteran I have never heard of him. But a little bit of research proves asides from writing a !!!!!! chatbot called Natachat which aims to make premium SMS porno users think they are talking to real girls AND claiming to be a former rocket scientist (you know when idiots start firing out wild claims and using .biz domains with 'free internet' offers they're best avoided), he also made a post on the Nowsms.com forum in 2004 asking for basic assistance with that program:

"What is the correct procedure to install a licensed version of Now SMS/MMS gateway (v5.0) in place of the trial version? I initially just ran the set-up program from the licensed CD, and this completed ok, but on launch the program advised 60 days remaining in the trial. So I used Windows 'add/remove' program to remove Now SMS/MMS from my computer and tried again, but still got the 60 days remaining prompt. So
presumably the trial data is remaining somewhere in the registry.
I'm running the software on Windows XP Professional.

cheers Simon "


Someone else already mentionned it.. https://www.grumbletext.co.uk already has a free agreement with most of the UK network to report SMS spam and mis-use. Use it.