This London based company (?) offer ringtones, SMS communications to and from the UK, Ireland, Australia, USA and Canada, blogs, dating and more of that sort of stuff.
In case you thought "Sounds interesting", forget it and avoid this company like the plague as it is a real scam.
Yesterday I wanted to send an SMS and a box opened which was going to let me do that.
It said "Send your message here", and underneath the box it said: "Boltblue Club is a weekly subscription service with an introductory first download at no extra cost or SMS allowance when you join for £4.50 per week until you send STOP to 85233. ". I decided to fill in the text, entered the recipient's number and my mobile phone number and clicked "Send".
All of a sudden SMSes started to arrive on my mobile phone that I had sent a text, a charge was taken for that (although it said this SMS was free) and all of a sudden another £ 4.95 was taken from my credit balance (I use Pay as you go) for a weekly membership.
In other words, they just stole some of my credit of my phone, as I had never given my consent for them to take anything, also the text underneath the message box did not mention that sending a message automatically made you join for membership, and nowhere on the page did I see a sentence like "I agree to the terms and conditions" or something similar.
I would go so far as to call this common theft.
I then emailed the company immediately but did not get any reply yet (not that I am expecting one).
I will now get in touch with Trading Standards, and if anyone has any idea what other paths I can take to help stopping this scam, please post a reply.
Fact of the matter is: BEWARE OF BOLTBLUE!!!!!
The amount of £ 4.95 might not be much, but I am talking about the principle of them just taking money off your credit, meaning they have access to your mobile phone and its credit at any time.
If anyone can, please help me stop this scam.
Mr. Dee.
