£1.50 SMS scam - T-Mobile's part

We ALL know it should be stopped and we ALL know someone close who has been scammed in this way BUT all the time we have a country run by fraudsters (moats, duck houses, new TV's and more seriously, Mortgages being paid by US) you will get nowhere. Like all others have done (Google results) cut your loses and run.

I don't share your negativity. I believe that there are good people in this country who will fight against the criminals.

bwahahahahhahahah....LIVING IN ANOTHER WORLD comes to mind.

Are you asserting that I wont get my money back?

If you follow my advice then you WILL receive a refund.

The police refused to give me a crime reference number. They said it wasn't a crime!

My email to the IPPC mentioned my disagreement with that view:

"I explained how the modus operandi of the criminals who sent me the text message today is exactly the same as the other criminals. There was no indication of a charge of £1.50 in any of these text messages.

PC Tugwell said that no crime had been committed! I was shocked by this as the crimes that appeared to be committed were the following

Deception

Fraud

I said I wanted to make a complaint but PC Tugwell said he had no information on how I could make a complaint and gave me the following telephone number 0300 123 1212.

At 1.40 pm today I phoned 0300 123 1212 and I was told I couldn't speak to a senior police officer and it was a civil matter and there had been no crime.

I am very unhappy with the way the police have dismissed an obvious crime.

I wish to make an official complaint against the police.

I require the crimes to be included on crime statistics and properly investigated and the people I have been in contact with receive appropriate training so that they take their jobs more seriously in the future.

Please indicate to me why they believed that no crime had been committed."

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PC Tugwell............hehehehehehhee. I think they have pulled your john thomas old chap.

I can't believe I'm reading this. It's people with views like yours that mean scams like this will proliferate. "Don't worry, old chap. It happens all the time. Like mugging old ladies. Put it down to life's experience". Give me strength.

Rob Graham

hahahahhahaha.........another in fantasy land. Protest for this protest for that. What this chap is not saying is that somewhere along the line the phone number was given over to that company most probably a ring tone or something offered FREE. Its very easy to forget such things when one wants to.

What my wife is saying is that she didn't agree to pay £1.50 per text.

I don't think that anything you have said is justification for her being charged £1.50 per text without her agreement.

so tell us how did she come to get charged it....ringtone download or something else

I think they asked for her phone number to send her a free game.

OK now I can reveal, my daughter did the same a few years ago. 50 is what she got hit for and never got it back even though I eventually contacted the perpetrator, operating out of an office in Cardiff Wales....which seems to be the centre of many a scam. I contacted OFFTWAT who were aware of the company but did sweet FA to help....as they always do. OK I have been critical but honestly you will worry yourself into an early pit thinking about it.

If this fails then use the small claims court to get your money back.

for 18...be serious fella.

From various sites warning about this "service" a good summary is:

"Therefore, if the terms and conditions of the original purchase are not studied then a situation can arise whereby the consumer is unaware that they have entered into a contract to receive further SMS messages charged at a premium rate. Each of the messages sent to you are charged to the customer's phone resulting in credit being drained (if on pay-as-you-go) or increased monthly bills (if on a contract)."

You need need to study your "terms & conditions" of your original purchase.

It's not the money involved it's how these people expect to get away with it.

The police don't want to admit its a crime because it messes up their crime figures.

I plan to. I have written to T-Mobile's chief executive with that threat.

The thing about these scams is that they employ persons in their offices that OBVIOUSLY know they are working a scam.

How immoral is that. Could you do this to fellow citizens, I certainly would not, but then again they pick areas where jobs are few and far between so any way of earning a crust is acceptable.