Dear List
Yes it is and I also got caught last year. I cancelled in February but
noticed charges were appearing in recent bills after the text messages had
started arriving again.
I got the company's help number from my service provider and called them.
They confirmed I had cancelled my subscription but told me they were
collecting monies owed from before February. They next element of the
script being read from was to offer a refund, so far so good, and then ask
me for bank account details, not so good. I accepted the former and
declined to provide the latter and gave them a postal address instead. The
cheque was promised within a month! I will not hold my breath.
It was clear the individual I was speaking to was tied to a script as he
refused to react to any other questions or points made to him.
I met another individual caught by such a scam earlier this week. She was a
pensioner with a "pay-as-you-go" phone bought to use in emergencies. Her
credit was being bled away by a premium rate ring tone service and she had
no idea how to stop this happening. She was in tears!
Service providers must introduce the facility to selectively block incoming
text messages from premium rate sources; if BT can do it for cold call to a
fixed I do not see why the others cannot follow suit.
I have lodged a complaint with ICSTIS and after briefly checking some of the
adjudications I would not buy shares in WIN (Wireless Information Network)
Ltd; they have been fined a number of times.
Regards
Frank McCall
iamAID Limited
(Company number 4233928; VAT no. 774-4609-03)
information assets management
Archives, Information, Documentation
Training and Consultancy Services
Telephone: 01539-536-735
Web site: www.iamaid.co.uk < http://www.iamaid.co.uk
<http://www.iamaid.co.uk/> >
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