Cell Phone Tomfoolery
A Future Of Me blogged about his experience with Cingular, Mqube and Blinko:
“I never subscribed to Blinko yet was receiving text messages that were costing me money. I have never heard of MQube until I read the name on the bill.
No-one has had the opportunity to use my phone. Yet, as per the Cingular rep, someone doesn’t need my phone to sign me up. They can just enter my # on the providers site and I will get billed for it! There are no checks and balances to ensure that I am signing up for my own # and not someone else playing a joke”
Has this happened to you, too?
Just recently I signed up for Photobucket online and in the process you are hit with an ad for bid4prizes upon signing up, this ad is displayed the sam time as photobuckets signup and there is a box that you can uncheck to bypass this but when you sign in it asks for your cell number.
I signed in thinking it was phtobucket and aparently signed up for this useless site Bid4prizes. I was charged on my cell phone $10.00 instantly. As soon as I saw the charge Icalled Bid4prizes and explained to them what had happened, the support person said that as soon as the charge shows up on their records they would issue me a refund.
So I waited a day and called back only to be greeted by a rude support worker who refused to be helpful and referred to me as being stupid.
So of course along with being insulted they have my money and I have absolutely nothing to show for it.
As far as I am concerned this is deceptive and just short of scamming someone.
Just a warning for those signing up to Photobucket and Bid4prizes.
Once the have your money forget about it.
February 1st, 2008 at 8:28 pm