Apparently a whole load of spam text i have been receiving and ignoring for 10 days has been racking up a $5 dollar charge per text. and now stands at $149 dollars. I did not opt in, it was totally unsolicited. Anyone else seen this kind of crap .. Vodafone have raised an official complaint on my behalf, its mind boggling that the tw@ts who run the service can get away with it. The number that was quoted to opt out... was yes disconnected

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Don't know about in Oz, but here OFTEL/OFCOM haven't yet imposed an upper limit on what you can charge for things like premium rate phone numbers. A popular scam is:

1. Set up premium rate number with call cost of £100/min
2. Ring on someone's doorbell claiming car has broken down and no mobile
3. Ask to ring RAC from home phone
4. Ring your premium rate number racking up several minutes "waiting in queue"
5. Hang up, say thanks very much and leave

Naughty, but I think a lot of these loopholes are closing now. Good luck mate...  

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interesting thing was that the company who is listed by vodafone is in the UK, and the company running it on their behalf are in the UK, Australia and a few other places and checking out google have run foul of a few Oftel regs and according to Vodafone here, also the local regulator in OZ.

Would like to find out the name and address of their directors in the UK and pay them a visit with some mates  Another Pommie Bar Steward down under

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