Comments on: PredictoMobile, LLC d/b/a PredictoMobile™ and/or Predicto: 654654

By: chris

chris — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:43:13 +0000

Predicto started sending me text questions almost immediately after i signed up with cellcom. went to their website to unsubscribe to something i never subscribed to in the first place! the messages stopped for a period of time but now i am receiving them again.I have never checked my phone bill to see if i am being charged. how do i get them to stop for good?

By: Heidi

Heidi — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 04:41:21 +0000

I am in the same boat, except it was my minors phone. Here is the kicker I called carrier and they said they couldnt refund the money. Um how can they enter a contract with a minor. I spoke with the rep from predicto tonight and the first question was is this a minor’s phone? When I replied she told me they do not condone minors doing this without permission from their parents.. hmmm. I am going back for the last year and its 10.00 a month extra. I dont get paper bills anymore so I didnt line item the bill.I am marching into to my carrier tomorrow and I want a print out of my bill from her phone for the last 2 years and I will report both companies if I dont get satisfaction. I am suppose to get a refund from the other company, but why are they allowed to bill through our company!! Im pissed.. period. If it goes back to the first month she had her phone I know it will be a reused number that she got and I have been paying for someone else.. UGH!

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:08:08 +0000

Never signed up for this, we pay our sprint bill online. I looked at the bill this month and called sprint who credited one month. Since the “3rd party” has been paid, they wont refund us. I plan to report to BBB an MO Attorney general. What a freakin scam, this has gone on since 2004, based on the minimal research I have done. Predicto mobile is a scam and needs to be held accountable for stealing money from innocent people!

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:00:59 +0000

9.99 charge since Dec 2010

By: Hassan

Hassan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:31:26 +0000

I was on auto bill pay, did not check my bill for a period one year, noticed $9.99 from Predicto and $9.99 from Celebrity Squares. I called ATT and finally they gave me credit for past 12 month.
They are SOB

By: suzette wood

suzette wood — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:00:01 +0000

I have been charged for several months on my cell bill for some service I did not, and would never, order! I want a refund.

By: Caroline Lennox

Caroline Lennox — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 05:04:40 +0000

I am getting scammed here in Canada too, and Rogers is threatening to put me into collections if I refuse to pay the $5/text charges. It is a different company, but same issue.

By: Chris M

Chris M — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:33:17 +0000

We have been ripped off by this company for over a year. If there is a class action suit let me know! My son is under 18. They cannot legally due this and we cannot get them to refund our money.

By: James Carrillo

James Carrillo — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:17:24 +0000

We have been charged 9.99 for at least the past 8 months (probably longer) for a Predicto Subscription that we didn’t ask for. ATT wouldn’t help in cancelling or refunding the money. I called Predicto where the rep assured me it wasn’t part of a scam. The rep wouldn’t give me a phone number to talk to an operations director or for their legal counsel. The rep did say Predicto does send out a monthly reminder of their service being subscribed to, but we have never received such notice. This scam was such a waste of hard-earned money.

By: James

James — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 18:48:23 +0000

Verizon Wireless is instituting a process whereby its customers may claim a refund for any charges associated with PSMS content

Verizon Wireless will refund those charges if a customer did not authorize or did not understand that they would be charged for the PSMS content.

By: Refund Jockey

Refund Jockey — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:55:06 +0000

https://www.premiumsmsrefunds.com//

By: Refund Jockey

Refund Jockey — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:54:48 +0000

go here for your refunds

By: Annette Fashelle

Annette Fashelle — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 13:44:58 +0000

FRAUDULENT CHARGES
THROUGH T-MOBILE
BUT NOT BY T-MOBILE

For months, T-Mobile was charging me outrageous amounts. I didn’t know about it because they kept sending my statements to the wrong address. (You’d think the people at the wrong address would have sent it back to T-Mobile, but they didn’t). And, when my bank statements came in, I didn’t look at them because there was a family emergency which lasted for months – the largest amount of time from January 2010 until October 2010.

Today, after finally gaining access to one of the T-Mobile phone numbers (the phone just usually rings, and rings, and rings, with nobody ever answering it) I got to an automated entity that said I now owe T-Mobile $115.00. WHAT!

I finally ran to their store – without benefit of shower, make up, nor dentures. When I got there, they gave me a chair to sit on because I was shaking so much from rage. I had to be sure not to take my rage out on the very people who were trying to help me – the staff.

I found out that every month I’ve been charged about $100.00 too much due to the fraud! And this is the fraud:

Openmarket 654654 Predicto $ 9.99
Openmarket 59187 Standard Message $ 9.99
Motricity 90881LobbyAirts 8883879993 $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 72449mindquiz 8004166129 $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 88922txtairts 8004166129 $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 77899 Call (877) 3-SENDME $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 82561 82561 Download 877- $ 9.99
Mobile Messenge 25692 MindQuiz 8777071775 $ 9.99

TOTAL CHARGES $79.92

That’s almost $80.00 every month. Had these charges not been applied to my T-Mobile bill, I wouldn’t have had hundreds of dollars of overdrafts, each of which cost $20.00 PLUS the amount of the bill itself. I would not have run into so many financial difficulties! ALL my banking problems would have been non-existent!

These charges have done so much damage that it is now imperative that I cancel my present bank account and start a new one. It is also imperative that I contact Consumer Cellular, the cellular company that I changed to because of T-Mobile’s charges, and request an immediate cancellation of my present phone number, and an immediate designation of a new number.

These charges were applied to my account WITHOUT MY EVER RECEIVING them. These scum-of-the-earth companies who sent me all these text messages (which I never opened), should be made to pay back every dollar they swindled out of me.

I have never texted anyone because 1) I don’t see the purpose of this thing, 2) I don’t know how, 3) I’ll be 70 years old this year and I don’t plan on learning all this high tech stuff. Mostly, it’s useless to me. I’m still living in the 1950’s, and it’s easy for these undercurrent companies to pull the wool over my eyes. And, speaking of eyes, I’m blind in one of them. So, you can bet your bottom dollar I’m not going to take up texting!

The lovely young lady who served me at T-Mobile today (Tracey) tried her utmost best to try to get all these charges deleted from my T-Mobile account, but since I cancelled T-Mobile, her supervisor could not help me. Had I still been a customer, she could have erased the latest month – NOT any other month. But, that would be useless because this month (the month of March) shows that I owe them $115.00. That would be saving very little.

This report is being given to:

Better Business Bureau

Consumers’ Protection Advocacy

Consumer Cellular

T-Mobile’s head office.

My bank

And anyone else that I haven’t thought of at time of writing this report.
21 S. Kuakini St.
#104
Honolulu, HI 96813

By: dembo

dembo — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 04:34:19 +0000

i ask preddictomobil to stop text me and they are charging me u should stop it and am going to file a lawsuit for all the money u charging me

By: sophie

sophie — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:15:40 +0000

I noticed the charges on my bill, it’s being going on for months. I never authorised this scam, but received a message asking to respond “stop”. I called Predicto and spoke with an agent, they are using false information to reply to complaints..she said that the txt messages were containing a call back number to stop these messages. this is not true. I will not let this go and will take all legal actions!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:56:32 +0000

I noticed the charge on my bill. I do not ever and would not ever sign up for something like this, so I called AT&T and spoke with the representative. He said that you dont have to be using the device which the number is associated with, someone can just enter your cell number on a website. He said that someone may have signed up for something using my number–no other authentication is needed. He told me that he could refund up to 90-days of charges, and luckily I caught this three days before the 90-days would have begun.

Moral of the story: call your provider, demand money back (get a supervisor if needed), and have them put a parental block on your account. This makes sure that you have to enter a 4 digit pin in order to authorize any of these types of scams. It will prevent a lot of headache in the long run. And for those of you with iPhones, etc., this parental block will not interfere with iTunes as that is not part of your wireless bill. Good luck to all of you. I hope someone gets to the bottom of this one way or another.

By: Rajinder Sandhu

Rajinder Sandhu — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 23:35:54 +0000

I am getting charged $9.99 to my t-mobile bill since June 2010 that i never authorized. I called predicto and I am told that they are getting in touch with corporate and someone will respond within 2 business days. I have the complaint confirmation number. Lets hope they respond, otherwise I will contact the FCC and FTC.

By: Della

Della — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:42:41 +0000

I have been charged for 6 months from this PREDICTO scam. I called predicto and they provided me with the number which identified the computer that the purchase was made through. Bottom line, I don’t care where it came from, I was never aaware that I was making this purchase. I then followed the steps that a previous blogger #12 Michele and had the same excellent care from AT&T.
I immediately called AT&T and they have refunded me all the charges immediately. The total charges I had been charged was $60.00. It’s wouldn’t have broke me but it is the principle of the matter. I hope this helps. Thanks Michele for the advise.

By: Anita

Anita — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 04:57:34 +0000

I’ve never order this company service, when I go to AT&T and want to get them help, they just answers me I can reply STOP for that text. I did it immediately, but a month later, I still get the charged, then I call to customers serive, the client’s answer make me feel this company have a very
serious deception, she said “I reply text is by my cell phone number, but the billing name is my husband’s name, so their system still need to charged again due to bill name was not me??? but they sent me the text not my husband???
I really mad what kind of company like that can lie people and get money so eazy.
and the other serious problem is
AT&T and other telecomm Co., ignore this problem, nobody can help us, and the only way is pay the bill that I’ve never ordered!

By: Amy

Amy — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 04:15:45 +0000

My son doesn’t know how he got signed up for this but I just called 1-800-360-0518 and spoke to someone who spoke surprisingly good English and she said she would cancel the account. I told her she needed to get a different job because this is a scam. She finished the call very quickly after that.