Comments on: www.sms-txt.co.uk scam warning

By: fred

fred — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:03:08 +0000

i use peekamo it is great service but i alos like places like http://phreakyphonez.net which gives anon sms.

I cannot figure out why google have not barred these cowboys

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:59:08 +0000

Good call on the peekamo service. Im surprised no one mentions this more.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:15:37 +0000

Stick with legit sms services like peekamo and you’ll saty away from sms scams. a lot of the time you get scammed because you’ve given out your number to random sms services that claim to be free, peekamo never scams or gives you spam. sorta like aol or msn.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:37:27 +0000

Good work Johnathan - I was gobsmacked to hear about this scam - some people have no morals - how do they sleep at night. Hopefully ‘what goes around comes around’ - shocking human behaviour

By: matt

matt — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:33:01 +0000

As I wrote on a similar site, I have heard of this scam and I’m applaed by it. I recently took over Free text and we have been working very hard to provide a REAL free alternative to paying for SMS messages.

By: Halfstep

Halfstep — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:01:28 +0000

Hi Jonathan,

Excellent work on this, well done. I posted the original notice on Usenet, but I believe this scammer has been getting away with it for quite a while. I didn’t trust the site, but couldn’t find any warnings (!), so I subscribed using one number and sent a test text to my backup phone. Amazing the way this scammer can take advantage of peoples laziness and naivety, and lax legislation. I reckon that many people think the 500p indicates a 5.00p charge. I did not. I’d be interested to hear if anyone manages to trip this ingenuous, mendacious rogue* up.

*By ‘rogue’ I mean teef.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:10:28 +0000

Feel sorry for those that have been scammed. This is completly free - http://www.digisms.net

By: Hurrah

Hurrah — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 11:19:21 +0000

Some helpful advice from John on another site.

“Although is say ICTIS can’t do anything about it, the Data Protection registrar can,it is a £5000 fine for each infraction, so for every number listed on that site they will be fined £5000, if anyone on this site had been ripped off in that way contact the data Protection Registrar”