Comments on: UK Mobile Scam?

By: solitair

solitair — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:55:07 +0000

this has been going on a long time hasn’t it? I say this because my daughter has just come complaining about this 801022 txt and I found this site through google. No one has mentioned if their Orange phone is a contract phone or a pay as you go one but tomorrow I phone Orange and the other numbers.

Thanks for the information which will help me I’m sure. Where the hell they got her number from I’ve no idea.

By: lewis

lewis — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:52:48 +0000

Unfortunately the regulators are toothless tigers, sponsored by the very ones they regulate. They take an age to bring the crooks to court.

The fines by regulators are a joke and do not deter the crooks.

The government/trade and industry departments are not interested.

Despite standard reply letters from service providers expressing that they are taking these matters seriously – they are conspicous by their inaction. The revenue they get through routing 3rd party messages are above any morality they feel for subscibers.

It is easier to get a politician to answer a direct question than to contact the crooks like Zamano, Tanla, 2Comm…..

It’s in our hands, we have done without mobiles before and we can do it again. We all should stop mobile usage for a month or two by announcement of a certain date.

Me – since doing battle for months with all the above have not topped up my mobile since June last year. Do I miss it? Is it inconvenient? Hell no – just peaceful and more money in my pocket.

By: Jack

Jack — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 11:58:06 +0000

I was sent FOUR messages from zamano saying that I had 600 free messages a month. Each charging me £1.50 per text message. Thats £9 for something I didn’t request for, I called up vodaphone and asked why this has happened and they said it was a scam and gave me the email address of zamano so they could arrange a re-fund. I emailed them but the messages they send back are automated and all you get is a reference number, (which you can’t do anything with). Has anyboyy sucessly received a refund and how?

By: Toomas

Toomas — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:14:13 +0000

Again another recent mobile scam coming from UK! They trap consumers through a website (http://raqibcells.com/default.aspx), and then pressurize consumer to send money through Western Union. After getting money they just disappear.

Here is some of their conversation:

http://teakdoor.com/the-teakdoor-lounge/45291-nigerian-mobile-phone-scam-10.html

please be aware of them

thanks

By: Joanne

Joanne — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:02:29 +0000

Put 10 euro on my phone on the 3rd of January and after one text and a quick phone call me credit depleted by 7.50 I was angry to the point of distraction blaming myself???????? I forgot about it KINDOF and put it down to a one off mystery (dumb yes) on the 9th of January four messages offering some servive provider message came up on my phone. I deleted them and 7.50 disappeared . Fifteen euro down i contacted vodaphone who were able to see the money exiting on the two days and that i was paying for three message service messages on both days at a cost of 2.50 euro each. I insisted i didnt ask for them and she said she didnt know how they were getting away with it and that if she was running a business like that she could retire. Great. She told me to text STOP to 57030. I asked her what was I getting for my money anyway and she told me nothing. i asked her if she had a name and address attached to this circus and all she had was the name ZAMONA and the phone number 0818 300048. I rang this and when asked for a 10 degit number realised I had to punch in my mobile number to talk to a human. This human insisted i had somehow subscribed to all of this nonsense and I insisted I had not. Then she was able to say it linked to a text I had sent on Christmas day. What the !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had texted XMAS to the number 50015 on christmas Day to enter a competition for a holiday or something. Hardly ever do it but hey it was Christmas. SO this lady was insisting in the small print it told me I was in for all of this. I told her i entered a competition for a holiday off the tele and hardly got to read such terms plus I told her this was nonsense. She could not tell me what you were getting for fifteen euro and I mentioned how if I was on a bill phone I would never have spotted it in the first place. She promised someone from accounts would ring me back….still waiting. I think the competition may be providing the phone numbers maybe unknowns to them dont know. Will ring Zamona tomorrow armed with the knowledge that I dont seem to be the only one.Now I wonder if this opperator from Zamona could quote the text I made to the Christmas competition , a link that was not made by Vodafone do they have access to my address book aswell. Will be ringing Vodafone also tomorrow. What a bloody inconvienance. Thank you all for the information.

By: Vik

Vik — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 13:31:06 +0000

I am on Orange PAYG and recently topped up my phone with £10. I made 4 phone calls (….to family) and all my credit has gone.

Called Orange who advise I have subscribed to a service and the texts received is from a company called Tanla Mobile. They have charged me £1.50 a text. Orange advised me to send the text STOP ALL to 78181.

They also gave me the number for Tanla mobile 0844 8845050.

I have sent the text and will also phone them.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:14:26 +0000

I started receiving these texts from 85115 in October but only today looked at my bill. At least £4.25 every day since Oct. Contact vodafone and they say they know its a scam but can’t do anything except give me the company name “M Blox ltd and telephone number 0203 0262817.
MBlox say I agreed to the subscription and am now removed. They say someone will contact me within 36 to 72 hours to discuss. But I don’t hold out much hope. What a scam and it seems condoned by Vodafone.

By: adri

adri — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:39:32 +0000

this is crazy this morning ”’7-11-08” i top up my phone and all my credit as gone in 4 text mesages from this number 66033 i whent to vodafone shop and the guy said they can’t do nothing and advise me to text STOP back to them
and where is my money???? now i dont have money and no credit on the phone to send STOP and i dont know how much they charge me to text them

By: onnsein

onnsein — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:04:12 +0000

There appears to be another scam. I have been charged £5 for a service (presumably ringtone ) 3 times on the same day via virgin mobile. I contact Virgin Mobile and complain about such charges and they give me a phone number of MDLox to call as their records show that i had texted for this service. My wife calls up the phone number of this company as provided by Virgin Media and they keep you on hold for 15 minutes. After enquiring for name of this company, she is am told it is TWO WAY TRAFFIC. Then someone answers and says hold on. Nobody answers and after a few more calls, the same long wait and nobody answers. The text no i allegedly sent to was 85115. I did not sent or at least did not request for such services- whatever it was. My wife who was in charge of the phone said she did not remember this service but there may have been a text promoting this service – to which she would have replied no. It is amazing how this scam is growing and the phone providers are not cooperative in investigating the scam or alleged scam. Will appreciate any advise on how to get refund.

By: bryan

bryan — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:38:36 +0000

Are Australians really that stupid? just read through the link above and Zamano would never think that engish mobile users would fall for something so ridicolous (although I stand open to correction) instead zamano usually promises free MP4 players to english suckers

from the aussie forum
“Celldorado deliberately created this fake Xray product to confuse the Australian public and taint all future Xray products released by competing mobile content providers. Not only are Celldorado taking your money, they are also using dirty tactics to bring down their competitors. They need to be stopped!”