smokey
Mummy to a monkey
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Just want to warn people about a scam I have just been stung for if you let your kids play with apps on your phone or touch pad.
Yesterday I recieved a text message (while I was at work) from a kko mobile saying I had subscribed to a service to download ringtones and games for £4.50 a week to unsubscribe text stop to this number.
At first I thought it was one of those scams where they trick you into thinking you have then charge you a bomb for texting back so I didnt do anything untill I checked my 3 account phone bill and the f**kers had charged me £4.50
I have no idea what this subscription is and cerftainly didnt want it or subscribe to it, like I say I was at work at the time so no idea what it was.
I looked up this company and found thousands of people complaining about the same thing and most never even knowing about it till after a few months of charging so I paniced and texted stop back getting charged a further £1.50
Anyway today I was looking through the history on my touch pad for another site and came across a few pages from this kko mobile.
Now my touch pad is not conected with my phone account in anyway I even used different email accounts on it to prevent apps being bought from the app store (the boy plays with it more then I do)
Looking into it further it was a banner on one of his games that hes probably pressed by accident and because the pad was using the internet through my phone its used my phone ip (making it think the pad was a phone) to charge me through my phone provider.
I have looked further into the company and there are literaly thousands of people complaining that even though they knew nothing about it and tried to get it stoped the company has just responded with tough.
Its completly illegal what they have done and their own T&C state the subscriber has to be over 18 and have bill payers permision (its not even a dam phone) and that the contract is taking out with you knowingly and willingly, now my son is 2, I neither knowingly or willingly allowed this.
They are putting pop up adds and banners on childrens app games knowing that they will accidently get pressed.
Im going to send them a email today demanding a refund and that it gets cancled as they have broken their own T&C for a start and the device is not a phone then I will contact my provider and say im not happy for that part of my bill to be paid as it was illegaly charged to me when the device wasnt even my phone (usinging my mobile ip like that is illegal) and without my permision they should not pay a company that is scaming me.
There is also another company (a type of ofcom) that is looking into this because ofcom dont monitor this company.
Im just so fuming over this.
Yesterday I recieved a text message (while I was at work) from a kko mobile saying I had subscribed to a service to download ringtones and games for £4.50 a week to unsubscribe text stop to this number.
At first I thought it was one of those scams where they trick you into thinking you have then charge you a bomb for texting back so I didnt do anything untill I checked my 3 account phone bill and the f**kers had charged me £4.50
I have no idea what this subscription is and cerftainly didnt want it or subscribe to it, like I say I was at work at the time so no idea what it was.
I looked up this company and found thousands of people complaining about the same thing and most never even knowing about it till after a few months of charging so I paniced and texted stop back getting charged a further £1.50
Anyway today I was looking through the history on my touch pad for another site and came across a few pages from this kko mobile.
Now my touch pad is not conected with my phone account in anyway I even used different email accounts on it to prevent apps being bought from the app store (the boy plays with it more then I do)
Looking into it further it was a banner on one of his games that hes probably pressed by accident and because the pad was using the internet through my phone its used my phone ip (making it think the pad was a phone) to charge me through my phone provider.
I have looked further into the company and there are literaly thousands of people complaining that even though they knew nothing about it and tried to get it stoped the company has just responded with tough.
Its completly illegal what they have done and their own T&C state the subscriber has to be over 18 and have bill payers permision (its not even a dam phone) and that the contract is taking out with you knowingly and willingly, now my son is 2, I neither knowingly or willingly allowed this.
They are putting pop up adds and banners on childrens app games knowing that they will accidently get pressed.
Im going to send them a email today demanding a refund and that it gets cancled as they have broken their own T&C for a start and the device is not a phone then I will contact my provider and say im not happy for that part of my bill to be paid as it was illegaly charged to me when the device wasnt even my phone (usinging my mobile ip like that is illegal) and without my permision they should not pay a company that is scaming me.
There is also another company (a type of ofcom) that is looking into this because ofcom dont monitor this company.
Im just so fuming over this.
