Spam Texts costing £1.50 (merged threads)

5lilpigs

I have been sent a witty message twice from this number and I think I have been charged for the privelege. I haven't signed up for anything as far as i know, anybody recognise it and can advise how to stop it.

Chester_Draws

"This is what we know about the number you entered (84010).

We have the following information about this number.

• This is a text message service charged at premium rate. Content ranges from ringtones, jokes, games, tarot, chat and more. Call the content provider shown below for more details. This service costs will vary depending on the service that you subscribed to.
• Click the following link for further information about premium rate text messages. More...

We also have contact details for the company that provides this service. If you have any queries about it, please get in touch with them to find out more.

Dialogue Communications Ltd
The Workstation
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S1 2BX
0871 700 2211


Hope this helps

Del_Boy_Gupta

i had exactrly the same sort of thing eminating from 80160- 3 messages in a minute costing £1.50 each. The only way to stop it allegedly is to unsubscibe costing more money!

network provider was no help and i never use texts or have signed up to anything with this number.

contacting the number of the company who organises the texts proved a waste of time- they alleged they would email the company to refund the texts yet have done nothing

mobilegossip

Have a look at this site https://www.grumbletext.co.uk it might be of help to you.

sehenley

Hi

I have had a problem with premium texts recently and in the last two months it has cost me over £30. I have cancelled them now, however is it possible to get my money back?

Cheers

Sam

richardjames73

In a word, I would say No.

Mian_AQEEL

how can we stop calls on home phone from tele sale companies.

fiish

You can register your phone number with TPS ( http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/)
to prevent unsolicited sales calls.

lamb7994

accourding to icstis the number is registered eith the following people:

Mind Matics Ltd
Macmillan Building
4 Crinan Street
London
N1 9XW
020 7418 5560

Their tip to stop these is to reply with the word stop in the text or failing that stop all.

Normally replying stop works.


Good luck
James

patwa_2

This may well have been posted before but I thought I'd just bring it to the forefront of people's minds again.

Like many people, I love to take part in the competitions held on the TV where you can simply text in the answer and that's that.

I don't know about other service providers, but '3' are really good about the price for SENDING these messages (these are to the five digit shortcode numbers) with all messages being priced at just 8.5p per messages.

But when t comes to RECEIVING messages from premium rate numbers, it's a completely different story. '3' charge 85.5 pence per message RECEIVED, and I suspect other providers charge equally astronomical prices.

Always be sure when signing up for text messaging services what the prices are. some companies, such as ITV with their quiz-by-text services are good as they tell you that the first message is chargeable, but subsequent messages received from them that form part of th quiz are free. but many don't. As a mater of information, the majority of numbers starting 63*** are free. I have done some research and found this to be the case most of the time. but numbers starting 8**** are nearly always chargeable at high rates. It's the same when signing up for online newsletters and opting to have them delivered by text. Always check to see how much they are going to cost you, and if in doubt, STICK TO E-MAIL.

Hope that helps.

Cheers and take care.

Hussein.