Beware Singlepoint

I just got a MMS message from Singlepoint today on my 7610with a picture of
a skier in it and some sales crap about using Video messaging (basically it
was sales SPAM).

As luck would have it, as it arrived I happened to have my GPRS log open and
noticed that it went up as the message arrived.

Fine, no problem I thought, MMS messages use GPRS thats logical. Then I
thought, hang on, that means when SinglePoint spam me, I have to pay for it
!!!! To unsubscribe to the things I don't want that I have to pay for - yes
you guess it , I have to MMS them - and pay for that too.

Being a bit hacked off at this as I have had several of these from
Singlepoint recently I called them.

a) They refused to accept the messages were from single point initially.
b) They refused to accept that I would have to pay for the message even
though my GPRS counter went up.

After patiently explaining to them several times they realised my point and
agreed to refund my GPRS bill for this month which I think was very
reasonable. They also said the SPAM would stop. When I went on to explain
that there would be lots of people out there who would be paying SinglePoint
to get Spammed (and the more SPAM they send the more money they make) they
went back to insisting that I didn't have to pay for the SPAM and then hung
up on me rather rudely.

BEWARE MMS SPAM !!!!

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John Jordan wrote:
> I just got a MMS message from Singlepoint today on my 7610with a picture of
> a skier in it and some sales crap about using Video messaging (basically it
> was sales SPAM).
>
> As luck would have it, as it arrived I happened to have my GPRS log open and
> noticed that it went up as the message arrived.
>
> Fine, no problem I thought, MMS messages use GPRS thats logical. Then I
> thought, hang on, that means when SinglePoint spam me, I have to pay for it
> !!!! To unsubscribe to the things I don't want that I have to pay for - yes
> you guess it , I have to MMS them - and pay for that too.
>
> Being a bit hacked off at this as I have had several of these from
> Singlepoint recently I called them.
>
> a) They refused to accept the messages were from single point initially.
> b) They refused to accept that I would have to pay for the message even
> though my GPRS counter went up.
>
> After patiently explaining to them several times they realised my point and
> agreed to refund my GPRS bill for this month which I think was very
> reasonable. They also said the SPAM would stop. When I went on to explain
> that there would be lots of people out there who would be paying SinglePoint
> to get Spammed (and the more SPAM they send the more money they make) they
> went back to insisting that I didn't have to pay for the SPAM and then hung
> up on me rather rudely.
>
> BEWARE MMS SPAM !!!!
>

This is not a problem in Australia because we don't pay for incoming
calls, SMS or MMS. We only pay for out going calls and messages.


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73 de Simon, VK3XEM.
http://www.aca.gov.au/pls/radcom/cli...IENT_NO=157452
The views stated by me are my own and have nothing to do with any
organisation I belong to,
so the prick that tried to slander me can get ****ED because it didn't work!

"John Jordan" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>I just got a MMS message from Singlepoint today on my 7610with a picture of a skier in it and some sales crap about using Video
>messaging (basically it was sales SPAM).
>
> As luck would have it, as it arrived I happened to have my GPRS log open and noticed that it went up as the message arrived.
>
> Fine, no problem I thought, MMS messages use GPRS thats logical. Then I thought, hang on, that means when SinglePoint spam me, I
> have to pay for it !!!! To unsubscribe to the things I don't want that I have to pay for - yes you guess it , I have to MMS them -
> and pay for that too.
>
> Being a bit hacked off at this as I have had several of these from Singlepoint recently I called them.
>
> a) They refused to accept the messages were from single point initially.
> b) They refused to accept that I would have to pay for the message even though my GPRS counter went up.
>
> After patiently explaining to them several times they realised my point and agreed to refund my GPRS bill for this month which I
> think was very reasonable. They also said the SPAM would stop. When I went on to explain that there would be lots of people out
> there who would be paying SinglePoint to get Spammed (and the more SPAM they send the more money they make) they went back to
> insisting that I didn't have to pay for the SPAM and then hung up on me rather rudely.
>
> BEWARE MMS SPAM !!!!

I just got 2 of them today, looks like its a money maker to me :P

I had a similar problem about two or three years ago. Singlepoint kept
sending me a text about some service or other that I didn't want with the
words.

"to unsubscribe reply to this txt with 'no' "

or something like that, at the time i thought 10p fair enough i'll just send
the txt and be done with it. But i continued to get them every week for
about a month. Which i didn't reply to.

then at the end of the month when i got my bill it said that i had
subscribed to one of there "news headline" txt services (about £3 a month).
when i phoned to complain they told me that they had a registered txt from
me on such an such a date.

It took me about a week phoning EVERY day to sort it out, then i just
cancelled my deal with them, cancelled the DD first. And I stopped using the
phone.

When about 3 weeks later I got a letter and then a phone call from them. I
told them that i felt they had breached the contract that we had and put the
phone down on them, after another couple of days they rang again and I told
them i would be going into the shop to complain to Phones 4U, get this the
guy laughed and put the phone down on me.

Singlepoint are a load of cheating scumbags who make a fortune because most
people probably don't read what they pay for on their bill. I urge everyone
to check, and if its singlepoint and your getting ripped off. COMPLAIN.

Neither do we pay for incoming text, sms, calls, mms except when roaming
(which I gues you would pay for also?)



G4KKD

"Simon Templar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> John Jordan wrote:
> > I just got a MMS message from Singlepoint today on my 7610with a picture
of
> > a skier in it and some sales crap about using Video messaging (basically
it
> > was sales SPAM).
> >
> > As luck would have it, as it arrived I happened to have my GPRS log open
and
> > noticed that it went up as the message arrived.
> >
> > Fine, no problem I thought, MMS messages use GPRS thats logical. Then I
> > thought, hang on, that means when SinglePoint spam me, I have to pay for
it
> > !!!! To unsubscribe to the things I don't want that I have to pay for -
yes
> > you guess it , I have to MMS them - and pay for that too.
> >
> > Being a bit hacked off at this as I have had several of these from
> > Singlepoint recently I called them.
> >
> > a) They refused to accept the messages were from single point initially.
> > b) They refused to accept that I would have to pay for the message even
> > though my GPRS counter went up.
> >
> > After patiently explaining to them several times they realised my point
and
> > agreed to refund my GPRS bill for this month which I think was very
> > reasonable. They also said the SPAM would stop. When I went on to
explain
> > that there would be lots of people out there who would be paying
SinglePoint
> > to get Spammed (and the more SPAM they send the more money they make)
they
> > went back to insisting that I didn't have to pay for the SPAM and then
hung
> > up on me rather rudely.
> >
> > BEWARE MMS SPAM !!!!
> >
>
> This is not a problem in Australia because we don't pay for incoming
> calls, SMS or MMS. We only pay for out going calls and messages.
>
>
> --
> 73 de Simon, VK3XEM.
>
http://www.aca.gov.au/pls/radcom/cli...CLIENT_NO=1574
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> The views stated by me are my own and have nothing to do with any
> organisation I belong to,
> so the prick that tried to slander me can get ****ED because it didn't
work!

Kevin I Chapple wrote:
> Neither do we pay for incoming text, sms, calls, mms except when roaming
> (which I gues you would pay for also?)
>
>
>
> G4KKD

Don't know, I have never roamed.


--
73 de Simon, VK3XEM.
http://www.aca.gov.au/pls/radcom/cli...IENT_NO=157452
The views stated by me are my own and have nothing to do with any
organisation I belong to, so the prick that tried to slander me can get
****ED because it didn't work!