CHECK YOUR BILL IMMEDIATELY!!
This has to be the best SCAM ever. Have you looked at your Cellular Bill lately and actually went over it and find a few charges that you have NO IDEA what they are? Well I did some poking around today to find a $9.99 Charge to my AT&T Bill that I had no idea what it was. The Charge was a Subscription Name “Predicto :654654#7924” for a Premium SMS Monthly Subscription. The Content Provider is “OpenMarket”, whoever that is! I did some research on the Internet to find out They are a third party application that finds your number and sends you a few text messages as Spam per month and AT&T (or any other service) is billed and in return bills us the consumer. I don’t even know what they text us, but it is a huge SCAM! I never agreed or signed up for anything. They could just put your phone number in and tell your provider you are using their service and charge through third party billing.
As I checked a little futher into my bill, I found out they have been charging me this $9.99 Monthly Fee for One Year now!!!! That is $120.00 too late! Most of the blogs that I read up on from searching this company through Google had people saying they were able to get 3 months of a refund. At first AT&T said they can refund me 2 months. I then got a little upset on the phone and said they have been charging me since October of 2008 and then she came back on the phone and said she can refund me 4 months.
There are a few more Companies doing the same thing: bid4prizes, motricity, flycell, Logia Mobile, etc. – These are all SCAMS and will be in the fine print of alot of other websites like Photobucket. By clicking on ‘I accept’ below you are agreeing to the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy. Well most people don’t read these and check that little box. Please do yourself a favor and take a look at your bill and Call up your provider and put a Purchase Blocker on your account. This won’t interfere with iTunes purchases, but it will probably save you alot of money. Here are some screenshots of my bill and what to look for!
Go Here and look at your Wireless Statement Summary:
Scroll down and find Mobile Purchases & Downloads: Communication Charges
Good look on that one foxy I diff gotta check my bill but you should also put up scam that I have notice on YouTube about jailbreaking I found a video on YouTube were someone found another video claiming to jailbreaking the 3.1 firmware but actually it's fake and caused alot of people to mess up their phones permently. If you hear something about pinksnow unlock or jailbreaking your phone it's fake that has been causeing alot of phones being damaged
Thanks for the update Fred, I will take a look for that.
This SCAM has really got me heated though…. There has to be a way to stop these companies from doing this in the first place. Some type of law?
i need to look into mine !! Right away
FRAUDULENT CHARGES
THROUGH T-MOBILE
BUT NOT BY T-MOBILE
For months, T-Mobile was charging me outrageous amounts. I didn’t know about it because they kept sending my statements to the wrong address. (You’d think the people at the wrong address would have sent it back to T-Mobile, but they didn’t). And, when my bank statements came in, I didn’t look at them because there was a family emergency which lasted for months – the largest amount of time from January 2010 until October 2010.
Today, after finally gaining access to one of the T-Mobile phone numbers (the phone just usually rings, and rings, and rings, with nobody ever answering it) I got to an automated entity that said I now owe T-Mobile $115.00. WHAT!
I finally ran to their store – without benefit of shower, make up, nor dentures. When I got there, they gave me a chair to sit on because I was shaking so much from rage. I had to be sure not to take my rage out on the very people who were trying to help me – the staff.
I found out that every month I’ve been charged about $100.00 too much due to the fraud! And this is the fraud:
Openmarket 654654 Predicto $ 9.99
Openmarket 59187 Standard Message $ 9.99
Motricity 90881LobbyAirts 8883879993 $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 72449mindquiz 8004166129 $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 88922txtairts 8004166129 $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 77899 Call (877) 3-SENDME $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 82561 82561 Download 877- $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 25692 MindQuiz 8777071775 $ 9.99
TOTAL CHARGES $79.92
That’s almost $80.00 every month. Had these charges not been applied to my T-Mobile bill, I wouldn’t have had hundreds of dollars of overdrafts, each of which cost $20.00 PLUS the amount of the bill itself. I would not have run into so many financial difficulties! ALL my banking problems would have been non-existent!
These charges have done so much damage that it is now imperative that I cancel my present bank account and start a new one. It is also imperative that I contact Consumer Cellular, the cellular company that I changed to because of T-Mobile’s charges, and request an immediate cancellation of my present phone number, and an immediate designation of a new number.
These charges were applied to my account WITHOUT MY EVER RECEIVING them. These scum-of-the-earth companies who sent me all these text messages (which I never opened), should be made to pay back every dollar they swindled out of me.
I have never texted anyone because 1) I don’t see the purpose of this thing, 2) I don’t know how, 3) I’ll be 70 years old this year and I don’t plan on learning all this high tech stuff. Mostly, it’s useless to me. I’m still living in the 1950’s, and it’s easy for these undercurrent companies to pull the wool over my eyes. And, speaking of eyes, I’m blind in one of them. So, you can bet your bottom dollar I’m not going to take up texting!
The lovely young lady who served me at T-Mobile today (Tracey) tried her utmost best to try to get all these charges deleted from my T-Mobile account, but since I cancelled T-Mobile, her supervisor could not help me. Had I still been a customer, she could have erased the latest month – NOT any other month. But, that would be useless because this month (the month of March) shows that I owe them $115.00. That would be saving very little.
This report is being given to:
Better Business Bureau
Consumers’ Protection Advocacy
Consumer Cellular
T-Mobile’s head office.
My bank
And anyone else that I haven’t thought of at time of writing this report.
21 S. Kuakini St.
#104
Honolulu, HI 96813
I am senior citizen who lives in low-income housing, living on SSI, and working with just one eye — the other one is blind.