Latest scam?

Last night I received the following message to my Nokia 6600 which is on
Vodafone through Singlepoint!

Message details:
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From: +87575
Subject: 2-4-1 Polyphonic tones for you today! Choose your own! In a
moment you will get a free service message click it to view latest choice!
Date: 14/04/2004
Time: 19:28
Type: Text message

I then received this message

Message details:
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URL: http://new.monstermob.com/push/poly....Q30DEwNjQ2Mjc5
Message: 87575
Type Service msg.
Received 20:28
14/04/2004

So I decided to click copy the URL and safely access it on my PC and got the
following details;

File name poly.php
From new.monstermob.com

I saved the file to my PC and converted it to a txt file and got the
following details;

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">
<wml>
<template>
<do type="prev" label="Back"><prev /></do>
</template>


<!-- Main Card With Click throughs to get.php or the tc's card -->

<card id="click" title="Ringtones">
<p align="center">
<img alt="loading" src="images/poly_sub/strap.gif"/>
<br/>
<a href="getpoly.php?n=NDQ30DEwNjQ2Mjc5">Get Now!</a>
<br/>
<a href="#info">Cost Info</a>
</p>
</card>
<card id="info" title="Cost Info">
<p align="center"> This is a polyphonic subscription service which allows
you
to download two polyphonics from a selection of ten per month. Following
tones
charged at only &#163;4.50 per month. Log off at any time by sending
CHPOLY STOP
to 87575 </p>
</card></wml>

So is this a scam or just a higly overpriced polyphonic tones service?

(".)

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"CheggersPop" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> So is this a scam or just a higly overpriced polyphonic tones service?

Actually if you look at the prices some ppl are charging for a few bleeps,
it's very competetive. Still deceptive and highly intrusive marketting tho,
so I'd class it as a scam nonetheless.

--
Sy/\/apZ

"Sy/\\/apZ" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...

> so I'd class it as a scam nonetheless.

I'm not so sure. If it's not pretending to be other than what it is,
there's no misrepresentation involved, so it's no more a scam than,
say, trying to get people to pay £8 a month for top-up tv when all
they show appears to be the sort of old rubbish people get set top
boxes to escape from in the first place.

Isn't "spim" the word for this sort of thing? Or is there a sp*
specifically for sms spam?

In article <[email protected]>, Fred
Bloggs <[email protected]> writes
>Isn't "spim" the word for this sort of thing?

That's for instant messaging

> Or is there a sp*
>specifically for sms spam?

spasms?

Matt
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Matthew Haigh --$matthaigh{News04}[email protected]
GCRSoft, providing SMS solutions since 1996...
http://www.gcrsoft.com http://www.moretext.com

Matthew Haigh wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, Fred
> Bloggs <[email protected]> writes
>> Isn't "spim" the word for this sort of thing?
>
> That's for instant messaging
>
>> Or is there a sp*
>> specifically for sms spam?
>
> spasms?
>
> Matt

I like that! :O)

"Matthew Haigh" <$matthaigh{News05}[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> > Or is there a sp*
> >specifically for sms spam?
>
> spasms?
>
> Matt
> --

LOL : ) Nice one!