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Jani Rayner

Premium text services or scams?

Many people are often caught in what they believe to be mobile “scams” these are actually mobile subscription services or “premium text services”. Most sites make it hard to read the small print and use enticing ideas such as winning a free iphone. All you have to do is enter your mobile number, what most people are unaware of is that by putting in their number they will be charged from $3 per message received by the company. It can also be hard to unsubscribe from these services as the instructions are conveniently not located on the website and most people don’t realize what is going on until all of their credit is gone or when a hefty bill arrives at the end of the month- remember always read the small print and if you didn’t you just have to reply to the text with one word “stop” or “quit”. Vodafone also have a list of subscription services and who to contact to unsubscribe along with the price of sending/receiving each message. If you have read the small print and the company is charging you more than they stated then they could be scamming you go to scamwatch to get information on what to do.

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