711 Speakout has just changed their rates to 10 cents for outgoing messages. Incoming text messages are now free.
Peter On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Royce Souther <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have a cell phone you will want to protect your self from scamers. > > My wife and I were out of town on the weekend and normally turn off our cell > phones when we travel. When we got back all my wife's minutes on her Pay & > Talk Telus phone were all used up. She does not use the phone much so I have > it set to refill each month for $10 off my credit card. I know she did not > use her phone that much so I went on the Telus web site to check the billing > details. > > Her phone had been billed for 3 text messages at a cost of $2 each. Many LUG > members have talked in the past about how the big cell phone companies in > Canada had changed to billing customers for receiving text message but those > fees where about $0.25 per message. It looks like the sender of these > messages is able to collect the rest of the fee and they have a program that > sends out these messages to cell phone users without their permission. This > is a great scam, they could be stealing from millions of Canadian cell phone > users. > > Most people I talk to about the text message billing on cell phones believe > that the cell phone companies will not allow you to disable text messages > but they do. I was on the phone for about an hour before I was able to get > to a human working in technical support at Telus and he was able to turn off > all text messaging for my wife's Pay & Talk phone. > > I tried with no success to get the money back but because this is a pay > before you use service the money is gone. Telus does not keep details on > text messages on Pay & Talk phones, or so I was told. My other phone is on a > contract that I would be able to refuse payment on if scam happens to that > number. > > If you don't use text messaging call your service provider and have it > dissabled. If you do then watch your bill closely, this theaf will strike > again. > > -- > Easy, fast GUI development. > http://PerlQt.wikidot.com > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
