88288

pleese stop messeging me its kind of really annoyning me in my sleep and the afternoon is ruind

pleese stop messeging it ruins my sleep afternoon ! actually the whole day

can you let me know how you get on please. I have been ripped off as well.

adhadfield@aol.com

The same has happened to me, I have been charged £15 this month, I do not know who or what they are and I am furious.  The short code I was given was 88288 sent by Switchfire Ltd (SB7) Tel: 08444457707 powered by WIN www.winplc.com

Guys, got this from Companies House website and other useful places:

88288 is run by a company called

INTERACTIVE SERVICES LIMITED registered at Companies House as being at
93 Windrush Drive (which oddly is listed with the council as a private address - I checked)
High Wycombe
Bucks
HP13 7TR

Company No.: 06368012

Company directors (among others) are

Uzma Sumreen and Khalid Mahmood

these are the crooks that own the number and are allowing their spamming thieving business clients to keep using it

WIN (Wireless Information Network) Ltd

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

01494 750 500
customerservices@winplc.com

inadvertantly went for competition cost not obvious,in the end £1/50 a go in threes and fours must be £50 over two months before calling toSTOP 88288    80876    FOOL

I canNOT believe I spent the best part of a day, in angry exchanges. So I'm not the only one, CONNED, SCAMMED, ROBBED like this, and its take 2 months to realise due to exceptionaly high bills.

Unlike a credit card or bank, your mobile phone provider doesn't stop unusual activity or premium rate.

I finally got through to the front companies - Win PLC, who only bill, Juicy Win, "My Offers" which maintains the website.

By entering a ONE time only competition accepting the T&C you do indeed sign up to £4.50 per WEEK of texts (so 8 weeks on my phone bill) CON CON CON, and its supposedly legal.

The customer services maintain, "its not our fault you delete the unsolicited texts" you agreed by ticking the box and entering the original compeition (I forgot about !) 2 months AGO.

Where is this in newspapers as a SCANDAL ?!?!?  They get away with it, because they maintain YOU the individual ticked a box where NO T&C could be seen without you going to a website. They maintain, every text says this is costing YOU £4.50 a time....

My mom said, "sweetie just be happy it was 2 months"... I'm so sorry for fellow folks being CONNED.

Dude, that's WIN PLC

Who my mobile phone provider gave. I got through to them, its a front billing company its not the company sending you these UNsolicitied texts charging you for the privilege.

Dig deeper its www.juicywin.com and behind that, you MAY recall entering a competition under "My Offers" - I've still not worked out who's behind THOSE companies.

Feeling for everyone here ranting.

By the way, (still not calmed down) the company who eventually take responsibility is called

"SB7 Mobile" on 0844 445 7707

Staffed entirely by non-native English speakers, so complaining is compounded in being understood.

I just want to know, has any Newspaper in their money section or BBC's Watchdog investigated this scam and have I missed it ?

Added to that, more hunting:

SB7 Mobile admitted that the WEBSITE Competition I'd entered was through this website...

http://www.myoffers.co.uk/

Look the bottom T&C it says "*It's free to join MyOffers, and it's free to enter MyOffers' own competitions and prize draws. Some third party promotions may feature premium rate entry"

ALL competitions are 3rd party, and not only are they premium rate entry, but premium rate - JUNK UNSOLICITED TEXTs to RECEIVE their junk.

It is NOT free, because they send a text AFTER you entered (so don't enter your mobile/cell number) that's when they scam you, you then confirm you entered this ONE competition. And low & behold, SCAMMED until you realise you're being charged because you didn't read their buried T&C.

Hope individuals of these front companies, rot in a very dark place.

http://www.the-scream.co.uk/forums/t30624.html

More complaints...  for "JUICY WIN" "WIN PLC" and www.myoffers.co.uk

The voice behind Customer Services IF you get through.. and its where you also CANCEL subscription.

SB7 Mobile - SB7MOBILE - (meta tags are you picking this up !?)

http://www.sb7mobile.com/

http://www.cdrex.com/sb7-mobile-ltd-3330118.html

http://bizzy.co.uk/uk/06117314/sb7-mobile

https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/85222/7

Cross referencing, angry rants from victims of this scam

"Win Plc"
"SB7 Mobile" "SB7Mobile"
"Juciy Win"
http://www.winplc.com
http://www.myoffers.co.uk
http://www.juciywin.com

SCAM, ROBBERY, CON

meta codes please pick this up for google searches

More cross referencing - more complaints.

https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/88818

please can you stop sending me texts and taking all my credit im a lone parent and topped my phone up yest ayous sent me text and took my credit,if this happens again ill be reporting them to someone who will deal with this legally,these messages came in the night,i want these stopped

just send back STOP

how did you get my number or people s number/and sit there and abuse peoples emergency phones which are there for live saving reasons if you can call yourself a company that can threaten peoples lives then it shows s you what a company you really are.

the number 88288 is PrizeFun.com and they have done me for similar amounts, I have tied them to an advert on Facebook. Reply with the word STOP and they say they will stop. It is still a rip off.

Call 0845 130 9911 authomated service to unsubscribe all you need if your mobile number to hand.

This will unsubscribe you from all Win Plc promotions.

I am getting messages from 88288 - Prize draws etc and they are charging me Four pounds 50p per week.  when I try to unsubscribe I get an error message