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Originally Posted by quick99si
It's pretty obvious what happened here... one of your friends, in a cunning move to inflict damage to your overall financial situation, borrowed your phone with or without consent and signed you up for what is clearly a useless service. I advise you aggressively confront each of your friends, threatening physical violence of course, and then post the results here.
Subscribed.
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I took your advice, figured I'd save time and confront everyone at once. While wielding a tire iron i threatened each and every one of them. they then all ganged up on me took my tire iron, and beat me senseless... Still don't know how i got subscribed to that text thing, but thanks for the advice though.
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Originally Posted by RavenTBK
I was recently hotlined for a past due balance. Funny thing is I auto-pay every month my same set amount it always has been through my bank's web bill pay thing. This led to me doing an audit of recent bills.
I found "Socialcard: alerts", as mentioned above, billing me extra $10 for the last two bill cycles. Searching google led me here, as well as to several other useful sites. Figured I'd post up:
This is the source of the billing:
SocialCard: SocialCard
Also, Google revealed this...it also has something to do with GameStop:
GameStop Alerts! Extra $9.99 on your bill - SprintUsers.com
Apparently SocialCard is all tied in with facebook and crap... so who knows where it actually comes from. I clicked on the cancel button and input my number. It said my number is not subscribed! This led me to calling Sprint about this, as all my lines are already blocked from purchasing premium services in Ensemble.
Long story short, the premium services block only covers applications/ringtones, not premium texts. The rep blocked premium SMS from all my lines, and after a short hold time, removed the two months worth of "billing errors". He also let me know if anybody else I know receives SMS messages from any short code (5 digit number) that they did not request, they should reply with STOP immediately. Kinda goes against what all has been taught to us with regards to spam and all.
Although I still find it amusing I was receiving bills from a company that apparently had no records of me ever subscribing? |
I had a rep tell me the same thing, however it still showed up on my last bill. talked to the rep again, so hopefully its taken care of now. As for replying to these messages with STOP, I would have, but I have never received any text messages from any short code numbers... if theyre gonna take my $10, the least they could have done was send me a couple messages. sheesh.
