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Beware of SMS Subscription Scams: How I Lost Money Without Applying

This is a personal experience that I got a few days ago about SMS eating money that suddenly pops up sayingWe have subscribed to some SMS service. And there will be a service charge of 5 baht / message (even though we have never clicked to apply anywhere) If we don’t read or don’t pay attention There will be messages as horoscopes that pop up several times a day. Before I knew it again, when the bill came to collect the monthly fee already.

apply for the service yourself Even though I’ve never pressed anywhere

What I found is that suddenly there is an SMS sent saying “Thank you for applying ****** 5 baht./message inquiry ****** To cancel, press *137 and call.” Which when it bounced, I was confused that when did I apply? because of course never paying attention to any of these services

In addition, the camp has also issued a statement that there are measures to prevent SMS from eating this type of money as well. That before applying, you must fill in an OTP to verify yourself first. (but never had an OTP pop up once And when do you apply???)

I never received an OTP, only an SMS saying that the application has been successfully applied…

If you know it late, you will get money.

Actually, if we know, see when the SMS is sent saying that we have already applied. It’s not difficult because you can press *137 to make a call to cancel easily and free of charge. But if we realize it late and begin to receive strange SMS, horoscope type sent in That’s the same as getting 5 baht already.

and the part that makes me realize it is lateSpam & blocked feature In the mobile phone that will detect spam SMS, which will send such SMS separately in the Spam & blocked folder. We are brushed aside because we may accidentally or not notice. It will make us unable to see SMS for service subscription included with general SMS.

A message saying that you have applied Was moved to Spam & blocked so I couldn’t see that it had applied by itself.

Sent several times a day

The hit is SMS 5 baht / time, sent 2-3 times a day (it’s a short horoscope message that is like just typing something randomly and randomly sending it) and it’s already 10-15 baht per day. If you know when the bill is out I will be eating money every day.300-450 per month bahtever

Not a Gemini, but the SMS keep sending randomly…

Press cancel. After a few hours, apply by yourself again.

even after pressing cancel (*137 dialed) After just a few hours, I found that an SMS was sent saying that we had applied for the service again.…And of course, we never go to apply by ourselves or have an OTP to confirm. Up to the point that I had to call the call center to inquire and tell them to help block all these services.

Including asking the call center why he applied himself like this The call center said “Customers may accidentally click to apply for services when they access various websites”, which we said that we never clicked anything and never received an OTP to confirm the application. And how is it possible? And finally got no answer. So I don’t know that in conclusion, the measures that say I will send an OTP to confirm before applying, where has it gone?

I pressed cancel at 10 am, at 8 pm it applied again…

Let’s just say check the SMS box carefully. Both my own mobile phone, my parents’ mobile phone, my children’s mobile phone and my adult relatives’ mobile phone. Because sometimes they don’t know that these SMS also charge. And do not know for sure when to apply for admission

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