Comment on Don't call before 9, my minutes aren't free
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 7 months ago
i bought akon - lonely from a TV ad when i was a young teenager for my polyphonic nokia.
what i didnt realise was it signed me up to a weekly subscription and it racked up over £100 before my dad found out.
Had to abandon that number and get a new sim
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Yeah I remember those subscription scams. Real scummy stuff
gerbler@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The massive block of fine print at the bottom of the screen. Things my preteen self would not take notice of.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I think their only recourse was that there was the asterisk with the subscription verbage in really tiny fine print that was only visible if you had an 80" projector TV
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 7 months ago
i was well below the age at which i could enter into a legally binding contract so there was also that. but we didnt fight it, we just threw the sim away and forgot about it
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Lol I feel ya. My brother did something similar with an SMS catfact-esque subscription in the days where sms wasn’t free, our mom was about ready to kill him. Problem was that it billed to the carrier, and so it was like $10/month on top of per message fees, and the carrier didn’t bill it until like 6 months later