Yep...just been victim to this myself...I had a text from O2 today asking how my purchase experience was ....I thought eh? what purchases ?.....so I go to my account and noticed 3 suprious charges on my account for "things Ive bought" some WWE service ?????...Wresling apparently...good grief!
From what I can gather somewhere along the line I have clicked a pop up advert whilst on my phone..on FB or You tube ...who knows they even dont .....not subscribed by the way, just clicked an advert probably to just close it tbh ...esp if its anything to do with Wresling ffs!.
You then seem to get some missable vague spurious spam text which any decent blocker would filter....thats where I found it btw..it lookslike any other annoying text advert 90% of us would simply delete asking you to unsubscribe to a service youve never heard of (also informing you of a charge of £2.50 if you subscribe) ...which obviously you dont because why would you click a link in a spam text...and of course you have no knowledge of asking for said service or any interest in it right...so why bother...ignore... more text alla Car accident spam we all know and love.
However apprently it appears your already subscibed now as youve clicked the advert and YOU now need to text STOP at that point...if not ......well......
You then get charged £2.50 per week on your account for some digital wrestling video garbage you
a) have no clue about and
b) have no idea how to consume anyway even if you wanted it.
and by the time you notice they have taken a payment.
So I contacted O2 who have put a block on my service for this type of auto subscription crap and then kindly put me through to these Jokers who seem to indicate that this type of covert slight of hand subscription method is totally acceptable....ie youve signed up without knowing...you didnt notice our deliberaate spamesque text...etc Job done....great!
They are actually called P. M Connect, the number is as per loopy73's. post.
Now the only way to get your money back is for them to send you some post office voucher via your phone that you can then apparently claim the charges back at a local P/O via your phone (I wont hold my breath)...they also tell you your signed up for a minimum period..but they will waive that as a favour ....utter scam but presumably exploiting some loop hole somewhere.
If it wasnt for O2 texting me asking how my purchases were going .... I could have been taken for weeks without noticing the charges.
Be Warned folks
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