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Just in case anyone here has kids or you yourself access the web on your cell. There is a scam that we found on our cell bill. My son was sent a text message he didn't open. if you don't open the message and reply that your not interested then they charge you $9.99. I don't see how any of this is legal. We got the credit on our acount and a block on their phones that is supposed to filter these out but not 100%.
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Legal or not, if they hit 10,000 (they probably hit that many times ten or twenty each day) people a day and only 98% of them open and check it out, then stop it, that's about $2000 a day they collect, unless the credit card companies do something about it.
I had a bogus charge hit my credit card recently. it took months and lots of effort and dozens of letters and forms filled out to get back my $39.95. It was finally traced to a Swiss bank acting on behalf of some third world African bank and getting any information out of a Swiss bank is darned near impossible. I spent more value in time than that the $39.95 and I suspect that is what a lot of people wouldn't do.
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quote:Originally posted by jgrecoconstr: Just in case anyone here has kids or you yourself access the web on your cell. There is a scam that we found on our cell bill. My son was sent a text message he didn't open. if you don't open the message and reply that your not interested then they charge you $9.99. I don't see how any of this is legal. We got the credit on our acount and a block on their phones that is supposed to filter these out but not 100%.
was this scam perpetrated by the cell phone company?
(thats' a rhetorical question)
call your cell phone company and tell them they are either being used by scammmers, or participating actively in a scam...
suggest that the State Attorney General should be notified...
then call your state attorney general's office anyway..
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No it's a third party that in turn bills the cell company, I'm sure they mark it up though. I will do the attornet general thing....... maybe I can find an email address for that. Thanks for the idea.
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If you live where your local newspaper has an advocate for the public, you might want to alert that person, so it could be made public in the paper.
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Department of Consumer Affairs/Weights & Measures 112 State St., Room 720 Albany, NY 12207 518-447-7581 Fax: 518-487-5048 E-mail: consumer_complaints*albanycounty.com www.albanycounty.com
Consumer Fraud Bureau Erie County District Attorney's Office Main PlaceTower 350 Main Street, Suite 300A Buffalo, NY 14202 716-853-8404 (Consumer Fraud) 716-853-8400 Toll free: 1-800-771-7755 (NY) Fax: 716-853-8414 www.oag.state.ny.us
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Orange County Department of Consumer Affairs and Weights and Measures 99 Main St. Goshen, NY 10924 845-291-2400 Fax: 845-291-2385 www.co.orange.ny.us
Ulster County District Attorney's Consumer Fraud Bureau 20 Lucas Ave. Kingston, NY 12401 845-340-3260 Fax: 845-340-3263 www.co.ulster.ny.us
Nassau County Office of Consumer Affairs 200 County Seat Drive Mineola, NY 11501 516-571-2600 Fax: 516-571-3389 www.nassaucountyny.gov
Rockland County Office of Consumer Protection 18 New Hempstead Road, 6th floor New City, NY 10956 845-708-7600 Fax: 845-708-7616 www.consumer.state.ny.us
Schenectady County Dept. of Consumer Affairs/Bureau of Weights and Measures 64 Kellar Ave. Schenectady, NY 12306 518-356-7473 (Consumer Affairs) 518-356-6795 (Weights and Measures) Fax: 518-357-0319 www.schenectadycounty.com
Westchester County District Attorney's Office Economic Crimes Unit County Courthouse 111 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. White Plains, NY 10601 914-995-3414 Fax: 914-995-3594 www.da.westchester.ny.us
Westchester County Dept. of Consumer Protection 112 East Post Rd., 4th Floor White Plains, NY 10601 914-995-2155 Fax: 914-995-3115 E-mail: conpro*westchestergov.com www.westchestergov.com/consumer
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I've had a few of these over the past month. I was even charged for a couple I never opened. One call to my carrier took care of it. They traced the calls to a number in New Jersey (why doesn't that surprise me!) and they put a block on it for same. No Mas.
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