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I recently saw my bill going up 1.13 per day and couldn't figure out why. I saw this online but before an invoice was posted. Sprint tried to help but all they could tell me was that it was 3rd party charges and once told me it was international text messaging. I found the following message traffic on another message board and am posting it here for possisble use by other folks. The "jokes" were the soucr of my billing and when I looked the site up on the whois portion of internic, I found out that the site was based in Amsterdam Holland; hence the international text messaging charges. If you watch your minutes online and see charges going up each day, you might want to check this out. I've managed to stop the charges from rising.
From the other board:
Today I was talking to one of my friends down in Florida who has a T-Mobile account. He was going over his bills from the last couple months and to his shock he noticed that he was getting charged from a company called Jamster. Within 3 months the charges accumulated to over 50$!!! Having easy pay set up on his tmobile account and living a busy lifestyle he did not realize that he was infact getting hit with these charges for a service that he was not taking advantage of (even though he should have lol because they send you a text message everytime they charge yeah ). But regardless I did a little research and thought it could possibly help out other people who may check out this forum.
Jamster (www.jamster.com)
When you are getting charged by Jamster you will receive a text message from one of the following numbers:
35555 = $1.99
95555 = $1.99
75555 = $5.99
65555 = $1.99
*How you unsubscribe to this service is by sending a text message to 35555. What you write is STOP or you can call jamster CC at 1(866) 956-2622. When you send a text message to get the free ring tone that jamster offers in their tv advertisements you automatically subscribe to their service and will receive a charge of ATLEAST $1.99 per week.
Zingy (www.zingy.com)
When you are getting charged by Zingy you will receive a text message from the following number:
94649 = $1.99/$2.99
* Zingy's contact number 1(212) 471-8601 or websupport@zingy.com
Joke of the Day
My personal favourite, they charge you 1$ per joke and I heard they really suck lol. When you are getting charged by Joke of the Day you will receive a text message from the following number:
44544 = 0.99$
* To cancel joke of the day send a SMS to 44544 saying STOP JOKE or call them at 1 (866)784-7712 OR postmaster@sms4jokes.com> unsubscribing through email takes 24 hours.
PCSRepGirl
03-21-2005, 01:49 AM
I recently saw my bill going up 1.13 per day and couldn't figure out why. I saw this online but before an invoice was posted. Sprint tried to help but all they could tell me was that it was 3rd party charges and once told me it was international text messaging. I found the following message traffic on another message board and am posting it here for possisble use by other folks. The "jokes" were the soucr of my billing and when I looked the site up on the whois portion of internic, I found out that the site was based in Amsterdam Holland; hence the international text messaging charges. If you watch your minutes online and see charges going up each day, you might want to check this out. I've managed to stop the charges from rising.
From the other board:
Today I was talking to one of my friends down in Florida who has a T-Mobile account. He was going over his bills from the last couple months and to his shock he noticed that he was getting charged from a company called Jamster. Within 3 months the charges accumulated to over 50$!!! Having easy pay set up on his tmobile account and living a busy lifestyle he did not realize that he was infact getting hit with these charges for a service that he was not taking advantage of (even though he should have lol because they send you a text message everytime they charge yeah ). But regardless I did a little research and thought it could possibly help out other people who may check out this forum.
Jamster (www.jamster.com)
When you are getting charged by Jamster you will receive a text message from one of the following numbers:
35555 = $1.99
95555 = $1.99
75555 = $5.99
65555 = $1.99
*How you unsubscribe to this service is by sending a text message to 35555. What you write is STOP or you can call jamster CC at 1(866) 956-2622. When you send a text message to get the free ring tone that jamster offers in their tv advertisements you automatically subscribe to their service and will receive a charge of ATLEAST $1.99 per week.
Zingy (www.zingy.com)
When you are getting charged by Zingy you will receive a text message from the following number:
94649 = $1.99/$2.99
* Zingy's contact number 1(212) 471-8601 or websupport@zingy.com
Joke of the Day
My personal favourite, they charge you 1$ per joke and I heard they really suck lol. When you are getting charged by Joke of the Day you will receive a text message from the following number:
44544 = 0.99$
* To cancel joke of the day send a SMS to 44544 saying STOP JOKE or call them at 1 (866)784-7712 OR postmaster@sms4jokes.com> unsubscribing through email takes 24 hours.
All of those things are stuff you would have to actually initiate yourself. Well, at least the Jamster ones; I don't know about Zingy. However, at different points during the day, I see commercials for Jamster every 5 minutes or so. You can get ringers for your phone (the ones I see all the time are the r &b/hip hop ones) or jokes sent to it. Like I said though, you actually have to text something from your phone to one of the above listed numbers.
I see these commercials constantly, but I didn't know they originated from overseas.
rdj
03-21-2005, 11:36 AM
Same thing happened to me last week. After Sprint generated my latest invoice, I noticed a discrepancy between the invoice amount and the amount that www.sprintpcs.com indicated I owed for the same billing period. Nothing available to me -- not *2 nor "My Account" under Vision nor the account summaries on www.sprintpcs.com -- provided any details. The discrepancy was $5.05 and did not seem to be changing.
I asked Sprint about this using the "Ask an invoice question" link on www.sprintpcs.com. A CSR explained that it was due to "Premium Text Messages" and, unfortunately, there was no means for me to see those charges directly until the next invoice. After a few more cordial email exchanges, I figured out that the discrepancy was caused by my 12-year-old daughter having subscribed to one of the joke-a-day services via SMS. I had forgotten about that -- it happened last month, before the end of the billing period.
As soon as I found out she had subscribed, we cancelled the subscription and had a little talk about how not to blow up daddy's phone bill. Evidently, she had by that point already received about 5 of the extra-lame jokes at 99 cents a pop... I suspect the reason they didn't show up on the next invoice is similar to how roaming charges sometimes don't show up until later -- these are third-party charges subject to more variations than Sprint's internall billing.
Here's my final comment back to the Sprint CSR about this:
That is a good explanation, and I believe I know exactly what we did to incur that extra cost. My pre-teen daughter SMSed a short code to a joke service and began receiving (lame but tame) jokes at 99 cents a pop. It took me a few days to learn of this and unsubscribe her phone. It could have been worse!
As the account holder I know that I can control the ability of my phones to purchase premium content through the Sprint Content Catalog/Manager but assume that does not affect purchases from third parties that are billed through Sprint. By way of suggestion, the "My Personal Information" section on www.sprintpcs.com should offer the capability to de-authorize such purchases per phone line as it does now for Content Catalog purchases.
I acknowledge the possibility that the existing interface between third party and Sprint billing systems might make implementing this new feature difficult, but there should be a way to limit a parent's liability for purchases made by a phone line in the grubby little hands of one's offspring.
Hope this helps some other parents-with-kids-on-their-plan!
Sprint_Gold
04-17-2005, 04:48 AM
Great information folks, keep up the good work!
People that have learned assisting others that need help, super!
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