"Tradein" <Tradein.39ely2@no-mx.phorums.com.au> wrote in message
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>
> I changed to a Telstra NextG phone in March 2008 from a CDMA phone. I
> kept the same number of course but I requested a business plan this
> time. In my first monthly account I had ten items in a section called
> "Separate Purchases" from provider SOLMOB and the service was
> MMFWCONT104MT, each instance charged at $6.60 inc GST. The provider is
> Sol Mobile which no longer exists since March 1, 2005.
>
> I'll give you an example of an unsolicited SMS that they charge $6.60
> for :- "Going with the flow will offer the easier route, but
> independent thought is by far the preferable option". Telstra is
> complicit in this theft because they include the charge for the items
> in your phone bill. If you have a prepaid it just comes off the
> pre-paid amount without even a statement to allow you to find out where
> your money went.
>
> I'm still resolving the problem with Telstra but the company (Mobile
> Messenger Technology of Lvl 1, 225 Miller St North Sydney Tel.
> 0299003600) who runs this fraudulent scam is making a killing. Their
> web site is http://www.mobilemessenger.com/news01mar.html and they are
> one of the fastest growing companies in Australia and now taking their
> thieving system into the US. If you don't check your account thoroughly
> you could be lining the pockets of white collar criminals. Their
> turnover is over $50m!! Even if alert mobile users get the charges
> reimbursed, the bastards get away with the money of people who do not
> realise they have been robbed. Elderly and disabled users are at their
> mercy and the amounts they steal can be substantial.
>
>
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> Tradein
> ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com **
I had the same happened to me. Rang Telstra and accused them of basically
been a "pimp". Told them that without their complicity scam artists like
this couldnt survive. Didnt even bother asking for my money back just told
them to close my mobile account straight away. Of course they couldnt close
my account and transferred me to someone else and I again vented my spleen
and closed my account.