This one is particularly sneaky text message I got a few months back:
You were charged in June for the Wappid ringtone service in error and are due a refund. Please call us on 0800 0319117 free from a landline to arrange refund
If this was legit then you would expect the Wappid ringtone service to exist – type it in Google and you only get a few hits, all people complaining about this unwanted text. This is most certainly a scam and a sly one at that.
Don’t be fooled by an 0800 number which is always free. Once you call this number you will be redirected to a premium rate number and there is no saying what this may end up costing you.
This is particularly nasty as some people may not want to respond to an unsolicited text message but feel that they have been charged in error, and the fact a large number of people will walk in to the 0800 trap makes it particularly nasty.
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