Please beware of a web site called “sms.ac” (www.sms.ac) – it’s someone’s bright idea of how to make money from YOU without you even realising until it’s too late. They lure you in to joining their “community”, and end up sending you SMS (text) messages on your phone for which they charge you £0.25 (yes, twenty five pence) each time.
It works like this:
- One of your actual friends, who has been a poor unsuspecting victim of this “community” site, invites you to join
- You think “ooh, interesting, another way of keeping in touch” and join up
- You start getting messages on your phone about new people wanting to be your “friend” – nothing to say that these messages cost you anything
- Your mobile phone bill arrives and you’ve been charged for lots of premium-rate text service you haven’t used – at 25p a time
PLEASE DON’T GET CAUGHT OUT – AVOID SMS.AC AND PLEASE PASS THIS WARNING ON
Update: since I first posted this, lawyers acting for SMS.AC have been issuing C&D (cease and desist) notices to anyone who dares to tell the truth about their client. Heavy-handed, bullying tactics cannot stop the truth getting out, not if we live in a fair-minded and democratic society. So go ahead, SMS.AC… try it on me if you really want a good fight.
Oh, and please please please NEVER, EVER give your Hotmail password to any other password to any web site anywhere except for the web site where it should be used. It’ll just result in your privacy being infringed and your friends and family spammed a lot.
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