Has anyone heard of www.smservice.net ?

TractorGirl327

Just received this text message:

Your May 08 account statement shows 3 unclaimed rewards valued at 350GBP.Join SMSX. 2 claim txt SMSX to 80039. www.smservice.net 2SMS/mth 150p/sms txtSTOP2stop

I'm 100% certain it's a scam, I'm not going to reply to them, but I want to know who they are and how they got my mobile number? Anyone got any ideas?

Cavey

From http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/

* This service costs £1.50 per text.
...
2 Ergo Ltd
St Marys Chambers
Haslingdon Road
Rawtenstall
Lancashire
BB4 6QX
Tel: 0871 871 9625
customer.services@2ergo.com

No idea how they got your number. Email them and find out? Or ring them? Use 01706 221777 as the alternative to the 0871 number (from https://www.saynoto0870.com).

wantmemoney

http://www.smservice.net/uk/terms.php
Pricing
This is not a free service. The membership is charged at £1.50 per fortnight plus £1.50 for each additional message received during the claiming process (minimum 5 messages or £7.50) or until you send SMSX OPTOUT (standard network charges apply) to the advertised short code number to unsubscribe from the SMSX Reward Club or STOP (standard network charges apply) to delete your number from our database.

think you should check your account

PrintBoy

I've just had EXACTLY the same text message as TractorGirl327.
I have never heard of smservices. If they are genuine, I wouldn't touch them with a barge-pole!

fedup_2-2

I have recieved a text with the same offer telling me I have 3 unclaimed rewards valued at 350 GBP as of 26/10/08
I want to know how they got my number as well

Jon_01

They could just be random dialling, what networks are you on ?

wantmemoney

fedup wrote:

I want to know how they got my number as well

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/consumer_affairs/article5002795.ece
October 23, 2008

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.”

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/06/phonepayplus_text_spam/
6th June 2008

PhonepayPlus, the regulator responsible for the premium rate and phone-paid services industry, is planning to clamp down on the black market in lists of mobile numbers in response to growing anger at text spam. Trading of such lists is thought to be a major factor behind a surge in public complaints over unsolicited text messages

they very rarely use randomly generated numbers. this is very inefficient because many of the 'random' numbers will belong to brand new sims that have never been used.
this of course instantly tells the regulator the campaign was a scam and will lead to a big fine.

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Cavey wrote: »

From http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/
* This service costs £1.50 per text.
...
2 Ergo Ltd
St Marys Chambers
Haslingdon Road
Rawtenstall
Lancashire
BB4 6QX



No idea how they got your number. Email them and find out? Or ring them? Use 01706 221777 as the alternative to the 0871 number (from www.saynoto0870.com).

Looks like this company has changed address to

Global Head Office
2ergo Ltd
Digital World Centre, 4th Floor
1 Lowry Plaza
The Quays, Salford
Manchester
M50 3UB
United Kingdom
T: +44 (0) 161 8744 222
F: +44 (0) 161 8744 233

TEL: 0161 8744 222

email: [EMAIL="uk@2ergo.com"]uk@2ergo.com[/EMAIL]


Same company sends short code texts from 85066