Virgin Mobile T-Mobile: 'trustworthy' PayForit used to rip-off customers

[El Gringo]

http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/t...+virgin+mobile
T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile customers being robbed blind?

so what were those strange 700xxxxxx numbers mysteriously appearing on T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile customer bills?

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/700034153
http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/Numbe...?ncn=700034153
Unfortunately PhonepayPlus does not have any information about the Payforit ID 700034153.

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Calls.aspx/700
Latest Reported Numbers
14
700048048
I've done the same thing. What ringtone was it and what site did you remember using x
Last post by linsey - 33 min ago
2
700040149
My son has £25 unbilled charges on his mobile contract with T mobile. 700040149. He said he was just checking the football scores, £5 each call with o.10p. £5 for the scores what a joke.
Last post by Joe - 40 min ago
4
700034348
Just got my mobile bill and I have four £1.50 texts to this number. I have never sent any text to this number and only use my phones allowances too.
Last post by k - 1 h 0 min ago
4
700052011
got a charge of £4 for rigging this number for 0 seconds (although i didnt ring it)
Last post by zaman raja - 9 h 22 min ago
10
700040422
Its terrible, i owe virgin now £60, due to these txts i have recieved at £5 each. Do you know how to cancel/stop them????? thanks
Last post by Gail Noble - 23 h 35 min ago
54
700034153
Hi Ring 0870 121 3186 and complain, I got a refund because my daughter had not actually downloaded anything. This is a real scam! Good luck.
Last post by cheekychoca - 20 Mar 2012
18
700018020
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrrrrrr... my son's got £16 worth of these 20ps on his bill. I've just logged in to his Hotmail to remove the ticks on "Send alerts to my phone." Hotmail charges nothing, it's the phone company who charge. DISGUSTING. Also, Hotmail says you can ...
Last post by JRH London - 20 Mar 2012
5
700034095
Just seen my bill for this month includes £18 for 12 txt messages from this number. I shall be ringing t mobile later to tell them I will not pay for something I didn't ask for! Wish me luck .....
Last post by manta711 - 20 Mar 2012
24
700144124
My Stepdaughter has received £32 worth of texts from 700144124!! I phoned Virgin Media and they have credited me £10. How do I stop these texts????
Last post by Anon - 19 Mar 2012
4
700034422
this number has cost me a lot of money i would like these messages to stop
Last post by lynn - 19 Mar 2012
2
700035278
My statement shows that I phoned this number. Cost 1.50. I didn't!!!!!!
Last post by mgza79 - 18 Mar 2012
1
70051797
مرحبا
Last post by احمد - 17 Mar 2012
1
70071038
Hey hasan kifak
Last post by hasan - 16 Mar 2012
14
700132360
Thanks, very useful info , have tried you suggestion, hopefully it will yield the right result
Last post by Shabby - 16 Mar 2012
12
700036030
premium text message rcvd £2-50 at time. Not subsribed to this number!
Last post by SENIOJ00 - 16 Mar 2012
1
700040164
what is this number
Last post by peter - 16 Mar 2012
48
700-000-0000
I had a call but no one spoke i,m in India
Last post by mick - 16 Mar 2012
10
700034627
No. 60140. These are robbing ******** & have taken £9 off me in 2 weeks! Don't download the app for longer battery life! Its a bloody con!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last post by Phil Sutton - 15 Mar 2012
2
700034112
i would also would like to know what this number is as it is a premium text charging £1 50p a time and 3 seems to come through on the same day and time
Last post by ann-marie - 14 Mar 2012
15
700052026
I made a complaint to PhonePay Plus and got the following reply: - The shortcode 60054 belongs to a company called Netsize UK Limited, if you wish to contact them directly their national rate customer services number is: 0808 189 1335 or email: support@sms-now4u.co.uk Netsize UK should be able to ...
Last post by Paul W - 14 Mar 2012
1
700038246
Received a charge of £3 for text from this number but never received any message. In Edinburgh on Royal Mile at the time recorded on the T-Mobile bill. Any ideas?
Last post by James - 14 Mar 2012
5
700032428
700032428 has appeared on my statement for £1 .
Last post by peed off - 14 Mar 2012
5
700034659
Dont reply STOP i done it and i got charged 1.50p on my phone bill
Last post by c connor - 13 Mar 2012
139
700046033
Just had my T-mobile bill through and a charge of £4.50 + £0.10 appeared from a number 700046033. The £0.10 is from a text 82018, followed by the 7000 number. Called T-Moblle who said this is a 3rd party charge, deal with them (Hmmm). Having asked for more detail, it belongs to Samsung and i should ...
Last post by Gardenman01 - 12 Mar 2012
2
700034797
Just received February's phone bill, had bills for £13.50 from 70003497. I think it's a scam one but T-Mobile state son signed up to something. Not amused, he swears he has not but I will contact 0845 130 9911 which is the number T-Mobile gave me
Last post by rlszer - 11 Mar 2012

http://www.payforit.org/
Payforit, the easy way.

Welcome

Payforit is the new payment service, supported by all licensed UK mobile operators, designed to make it easy to pay for low cost services on the mobile phone.

First announced in March 2006, the Payforit scheme has been developed by the operators to promote a trustworthy and consistent standard for paying by mobile, so that consumers can buy with confidence when they are making one-off payments or setting up subscription services via their phone.

Below is a list of the scheme’s current Accredited Payment Intermediaries who are connected to the respective networks.

Accredited
Payment Intermediary...................................... Accredited on

........ ................................3.........Vodafone ........o2.........Orange.........T-mobile

2ergo............................................. .... / ............. / ............./................./

Bango.net............................./............. / ............. / ............./................./


Dialogue Communications........../............. / ............. / ............./................./


Ericsson IPX.........................../............. / ............. / ............./................./


24GMedia.......................................... . / ................................................


mBlox................................../............. / ............. / ............./................./


Mobile Interactive Group............/............. / ............. / ............./................./


Sybase365............................./............................. / ............./................./


Open Market........................../............. / ............. / ............./................./


Netsize................................./............. / ............. / ............./................./


Tanla Mobile........................../............. / ............. / ............./................./


Oxygen8 Communications.........../............. / ............. / ............./................./


Win...................................../............. / ............. / ............./................./


Zong.................................../............. / ............. / ............./................./

Virgin Mobile uses the T-Mobile Payment Intermediaries
so in reality just another premium rate rip-off scheme used and operated by dishonest sleazy companies that parents should keep their children as far away from as possible.

[El Gringo]

http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/Numbe...?ncn=000000000
Unfortunately PhonepayPlus does not have any information about the Payforit ID 000000000.

to

http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/Numbe...?ncn=999999999
Unfortunately PhonepayPlus does not have any information about the Payforit ID 999999999.

http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/Numbe...?ncn=123456789
Check a Number - Result
PhonepayPlus has the following information about Payforit ID :
123456789

Customer care number: 0207 099 2450
Search result provided by: Interlinked Media Ltd
Service connected on: 09 August 2011
Service terminated on: This service is still operating
Name of service: ImpulsePay
Type of service: Interlinked Media Ltd has not provided this information
Service description: Interlinked Media Ltd has not provided this information
How much does this service cost? Interlinked Media Ltd has not provided this information
If you would like to find out more about this service or have a question about it then you should contact Interlinked Media Ltd
Interlinked Media Ltd
344-354 Gray's Inn Road
London
wc1x 8bp

ok so this appears Payforit uses block of 9 digit numbers 000000000 to 999999999.
they also appear to use block of 8 digit numbers 00000000 to 99999999.

[mike99]

Interesting that PhonepayPLus are now suggesting that 7000 prefix codes are "payforit" IDs. These first appeared on this forum here. I pursued this with Virgin and PhonepayPlus at the time - I even had some correspondence with the Ofcom rep on the PhonepayPlus board. I reported some of my (lack of) progress in this thread.

Nobody was able to tell me what 7000 prefix numbers were or why are used in place of actual phone numbers.

Many years on, the scams are still continuing it seems and PP+ are still looking into it.

[stevesafc29]

new to this discussion so ill give you my take on it, ive just checked back on my t-mobile bill back to january and have been charged £1.50 by the number 700034797 at least 3 to 5 times in jan-march and 11 times this month!!! The charges started when i signed up for a day's access to 'megaupload' the file hosting service which is currently under investigation from the FBI i do believe. The 'payforit' scheme would seem to be responsible if this is the case, from what i've read above anyway? quick question to those in the know, is it even worth ringing t-mobile or can they literally do nothing? and if thats the case what are my options, changing my number??

Thanks for any feedback
Steve

[El Gringo]

The charges started when i signed up for a day's access to 'megaupload' the file hosting service

Originally Posted by stevesafc29

Leaving aside what people think of sites like this.

I just reread what you are saying.

So where ever you entered your number you believe it may have resulted in some kind of premium rate 'subscription'.

First thing to do is contact T-Mobile and insist they give you the identity, contact details of the company they are billing for and the shortcode. Tell them you did not subscribe to this service so they must unsubscribe you from their Payforit end.

quick question to those in the know, is it even worth ringing t-mobile or can they literally do nothing? and if thats the case what are my options, changing my number??

Find out who/what it is first....

[El Gringo]

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/08451309911
08451309911
Got a call from 08451309911?

I received 4 text message at £1.50 each which showed up on my bill as number 700034797
According to tmobile it was an adult chat line lol! funny that beens i never signed up for anything
So they gave me this number 0845 130 9911, which i phoned and they have told me its another 3rd party service called mobile and emails limited phone number 08414382170

I am about to phone them now and see who signed me up for this exactly, as a very nice lady at tmobile, told me that they have to give me details of every text sent and from what number it registered from. they have to actually provide proof of every detail of what was in the text/
Caller: 08451309911
Call Type: SMS

it appears these have your number.......Mobile and Emails Limited
http://companycheck.co.uk/company/SC348168

[stevesafc29]

i contacted t-mobile directly and they gave me this info;

"Hi, to stop these please contact 0845 130 9911 or email Customerservices@winplc.com as the company is ICSTIS Sexual Entertainment"

i certainly dont recall signing up for this!!!

[El Gringo]

The charges started when i signed up for a day's access to 'megaupload'

contacted t-mobile directly and they gave me this info;

"Hi, to stop these please contact 0845 130 9911 or email Customerservices@winplc.com as the company is ICSTIS Sexual Entertainment"

i certainly dont recall signing up for this!!!

Originally Posted by stevesafc29

This is what I think may have happened.

Firstly it would be very difficult to sign up on a genuine Payforit web page without realising you were agreeing to purchase a premium rate service.

I believe either Megaupload have sold your number to Win plc client (Mobile and Email or whoever).

or

you entered your number into a third party 'affiliate marketer' who had created a web page to somehow trick you (iframe).

This would explain why you don't recall signing up to this. At this point it doesn't really matter.

By the way ICSTIS is the old name of the Regulator PhonepayPlus who you could complain to if you wish but you may loose the will to live before they do anything.

Win plc is one of T-mobile's 'Accredited Payment Intermediary'
http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/s...34&postcount=1

They connect their client to T-mobile and handle the Proceeds of Commerce.

At this point I would contact Customerservices@winplc.com or Payforit (0845 130 9911) and tell them you want your number removed from their list. You can also demand a refund but don't say any thing about entering your number on 'megaupload' or anywhere. Tell them you intend to refer the matter to PhonepayPlus AND your MP if you don't receive the refund.

When you have done all this I would change my number and possibly get shot of T-mobile at the earliest opportunity.

ps you do realise T-mobile pocket 50% of the revenue before passing the rest (minus VAT) on for Win and their client to share.