82344

Absolute CON, just found out my 12 yr old son has lost all his credit on his phone which is needed for emergency contact, lets face it, it's not the safest of times. These people ( using the term loosley) should be F#####G strung up. How is it they can get away with this.

Our 12 year old son has a phone on contract, which we pay. He's never given us cause for concern, although his text use has grown dramatically over the past year - he is a responsible young man. The last phone bill has just come in and we have 5 premium rate calls to his number, all at £2.50 a time. He swears he's never joined anything, entered anything or requested  a ringtone - but these messages from 82344 keep coming. He's deleted them each time because he didn't know what they were. But we've been charged the £2.50 each time. We've sent STOP to the number so we'll see how we go - but surely this can be stopped once and for all! What can we do to all get together and stop this theft. Our son is traumatised by this experience and really scared to use his phone.

Was reading the postson page 1-said to text callme to 62277.
Hope that helps.

i have received my second bill and i see i have been charged £10 for texts i have never sent the number is 82344

Have had 6 texts from 82344 in the last 2 weeks. I consider this is a Police matter and plan to take it further.

EASY SOLUTION TO THE SCAM
This is definitely a scam, it has affected thousands of people over the years and has made the scammers and their front men (the networks) millions!  If you contact your network they will just give you the run-around and tell you to contact the scammers.  The networks know this is a scam, but are happy to enable the scammers to keep going as they take a cut of the proceeds.  
If you get any unwanted premium rate texts, you should send an email or registered letter to the customer service department of your mobile network with the following text (replace O2 with your network's name):

" I have received a number of unsolicited premium rate texts from 82344.  I do not have an agreement, contract or relationship of any kind or form with this scam company, hence all texts sent to me were sent illegally as per 2003 E-Privacy Regulations.  The money taken from my account was also taken illegally as per the 1968 Theft Act.  Since my contract is with O2 and it is O2 that has knowingly or unknowingly been complicit in this theft I expect on one the following from O2:

•    I expect O2 to refund the money illegally take from my account and O2 to take this up with the scammers.
•    I expect O2 to provide me with a full and detailed audit trail proving that I subscribed for this service and that the money was taken legally.

Please advise me within 48 hours or receipt of this email, which of the two above actions O2 will be taking.  If I do not receive a satisfactory reply within 48 hours I will be making a formal complaint to Oftel, reporting the theft to the Police and initiating legal action.
"

Its almost a certainty the network will not have any proof of a subscription, they may have details of texts sent or received, but unless they can provide the content of those texts then they can't prove that you subscribed. They will have to refund the money or get the scammers to refund the money (make sure you get a FULL refund).

I did all of the above with O2 and they finally stopped giving me the run-around and got me a refund.  Don't let them fool you into thinking you signed up by accident, or you weren't paying attention, this is nothing but a SCAM.  The scammers buy your number from mailing lists or simply auto generate it from known number ranges.

Hope this helps, good luck...

Regards
Jon

EASY SOLUTION TO THE SCAM
This is definitely a scam, it has affected thousands of people over the years and has made the scammers and their front men (the networks) millions!  If you contact your network they will just give you the run-around and tell you to contact the scammers.  The networks know this is a scam, but are happy to enable the scammers to keep going as they take a cut of the proceeds.  
If you get any unwanted premium rate texts, you should send an email or registered letter to the customer service department of your mobile network with the following text (replace O2 with your network's name):

" I have received a number of unsolicited premium rate texts from 82344.  I do not have an agreement, contract or relationship of any kind or form with this scam company, hence all texts sent to me were sent illegally as per 2003 E-Privacy Regulations.  The money taken from my account was also taken illegally as per the 1968 Theft Act.  Since my contract is with O2 and it is O2 that has knowingly or unknowingly been complicit in this theft I expect one the following from O2:

•    I expect O2 to refund the money illegally taken from my account and O2 to take this up with the scammers.
•    I expect O2 to provide me with a full and detailed audit trail proving that I subscribed for this service and that the money was taken legally.

Please advise me within 48 hours of receipt of this email, which of the two above actions O2 will be taking.  If I do not receive a satisfactory reply within 48 hours I will be making a formal complaint to Oftel, reporting the theft to the Police and initiating legal action.
"

It’s almost a certainty the network will not have any proof of a subscription, they may have details of texts sent or received, but unless they can provide the content of those texts then they can't prove that you subscribed. They will have to refund the money or get the scammers to refund the money (make sure you get a FULL refund).

I did all of the above with O2 and they finally stopped giving me the run-around and got me a refund.  Don't let them fool you into thinking you signed up by accident, or you weren't paying attention, this is nothing but a SCAM.  The scammers buy your number from mailing lists or simply auto generate it from known number ranges.

Hope this helps, good luck...

Regards
Jon

This scam txt msgs from 82344 has cost me well over £78.56p in the last 6 months. I have not subscribe to it but receiving  txt msgs on weekly basis. I ignore it and deleted the msgs but only later found out they charge me for each msg the sent me. I only managed to stop it after ringing 02 my mobile provider to take the action immediately. I was furious and dissatisfy and looking for the company to get compensation for my loss. If anyone a can help me to contact this company, I would be most gratefully if I can have that information. Many Thanks.

I am being bombarded with messages from this company and when they send me a txt I get charged

Does your cellphone run apps? If so, it might have several free ones for you to choose from that block SMS. Look on your screen for an app market icon, open it and search to see what is available. Then open the app, register, enter the number in the space provided, follow the prompts and turn it on.

Best wishes-I hope that helped.

Please see my (Jon) previous post above for a simple solution to the scam and details of how to get a full refund...

Regards
Jon

Stop

This is a company called Prizes2Mobile.co.uk
Setup by a man called Colin McCaffery
Do a lookup on the domain
He is a director at a company called 2ergo and they have been fined several times by OFCOM

STOP BILLING MY SON!

He foolishly clicked on an iPhone advert and next thing he is charged !

Scammers

Just found out I had £40 of these calls over last 3 months.. £5, then £10, then £25..
Had no idea they were charging me. [***]. That's on a par with the banks.

I'd been getting random porny messages every so often, and just deleting them, assuming it was spam.
I mean, the stuff is everywhere else..  my inbox, my tv, my letterbox..  why not send shite to my phone too??

I didn't want to text 'stop', since I'd heard a story of people being duped into texting back and paying £30 for the privilege.

Long story short, the offending number: 00089082344   ( 82344 )
Company: http://www.marketbybrand.com/ 
Call them on 0808 120 1902.

Easy to deal with, they removed me from their list, and have agreed to send a cheque for £40 in the next few days.
..hopefully, the postman won't charge me £50 to deliver it . . .  :s

..following on from my post above:

There is also a site you can use to make complaints about this - as well as the contact details for one of the 'companies' involved:

http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/Number-Checker/Check-a-Number-Results.aspx?ncn=82344

Details from the site Show the company as:

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WIN (Wireless Information Network) Ltd

1 Cliveden Office Village
Lancaster Road
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP12 3YZ

01494 750 500
customerservices@winplc.com
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Hope this is helpful to someone.
These people are obtaining money by deception. Bugger trading standards, I'll be speaking to the police about it.
I suggest you all do the same.

Ok, following from post #1 and #2 ...

I'm now getting junk texts from 61610.

SEEMS MY NUMBER HAS NOT BEEN DELETED, BUT SIMPLY MOVED TO A NEW LIST.

Change of number may be the only way to get rid of these criminals.

This is theft, plain and simple. And I'm getting really pissed off with it.  :(

Prizes2win seems a complete con.
I am sent a question every week and being charged on my phone without my permission.
Who are these con men?
I never signed up to this!
PLEASE STOP

Sorry I relied instead of a new post !

I will be reporting Prizes2win to phone pay + and logging a refund request

It's Prizes2win.co.uk
You are right though what a con!

noticed on my o2 bill charges for interactive texts, what ever they are    for £6.00 went on line and sombody eventually answerd said they  would stop it, i asked the name of the company they replied intrugo ltd and were in newcastle, his name was bob harris, so so he said THIS STINKS
its time the police get involved asap