Premium Rate SMS Spammers

On 2006-08-29, Paul Cupis <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Since the network operators aren't required to provide refunds to the
>> victims, who is supposed to benefit from the 30 day holding period?
>> Or is this supposed to encourage them to do so?
>
> I'll have to refer you to:
>
> http://www.icstis.org.uk/pdfs/CodeAd...visionsNOs.pdf
>
> particularly section 2.3.9.

So the purpose is to allow ICSTIS to collect oustanding fines owed by
the payee.

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On Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:08:51 +0100, "Ivor Jones"
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>It *is* possible to receive these messages without ever having
>"subscribed" by any method. I know, I got one.
>
>Ivor
>
I can confirm that!

This is an edited re-post of an old post of mine, but relevant!

"My April O2 bill showed a £1.50 charge for interactive services
received.

See my previous post "84010 and O2 customer services - bouquet"

I immediately got on to O2 customer service. They were really helpful
AFTER I said that O2 were in fact fraudulently charging me for
something I had neither received nor ordered by any means.

It turns out the senders short code belongs to www.B4Utele.com

My phone supports neither download ringtones nor games - it's an old
Ericsson.

I suggested they check back through my SMS record to confirm that I
don't ever send texts from my O2 phone.

I can now confirm that O2 have refunded the £1.50 charge and credited
it to my next bill - great!

Today however my phone gave the incoming SMS message tone, but there
was no message, or any indication that anything had been received. So
I got on to O2 again and asked if was possible that this was an
indication that I was being sent a ringtone or something similar, and
likely to be charged for it.

The CS bod told me that this was not possible. I'm not convinced
however, and told him that I would like confirmation of this.

NOW HERE'S THE USEFUL BIT:-

The guy told me that I could check back with customer service 48 hours
after receiving anything I considered suspect and find out if it had
incurred a charge.

So, on Tuesday I'll do just that! Fortunately it's a free call from
the mobile on 100.

I don't know if the other networks can do likewise, but if we all keep
pestering our network customer services perhaps they'll do something
about it.

I for one, refuse to spend 12p to stop something I did not start!"

Neil

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