{"id":17666,"date":"2016-06-25T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/premium-rate-service-drained-my-virgin-mobile-balance-but-i-hadnt-signed-up\/"},"modified":"2016-06-25T13:03:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T06:03:19","slug":"premium-rate-service-drained-my-virgin-mobile-balance-but-i-hadnt-signed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/premium-rate-service-drained-my-virgin-mobile-balance-but-i-hadnt-signed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Premium-rate service drained my Virgin mobile balance \u2013 but I hadn\u2019t signed up"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI have lost about \u00a320 to people who had no right to take my moneyI put \u00a320 on my pay-as-you-go Virgin mobile account. When I checked the balance a couple of weeks later I found I only had \u00a31.28 credit, which was a big surprise as I don\u2019t use it very much. I then noticed a text message informing me I could unsubscribe to a firm I had never heard of, and another saying that I didn\u2019t have enough funds for the service to continue.I contacted Virgin and got through to a customer service person. She informed me I would have to text STOP to the number given to unsubscribe. When I pointed out that I had never subscribed she said it wasn\u2019t their problem but between me and the company that had been taking my money. She claimed I must have answered a text to give them the authority to raid my account and there was nothing I could do except unsubscribe. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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