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Old 01-12-2010, 10:50 AM
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Call your cell phone company, and they will probably refund these if you do it right away when you get your bill if you explain that you didn't intend to have the service.

Some of the 'games', 'contests' and greetings, etc, you see people sending you on Facebook, MySpace, etc, or that just appears in post history of your page, will, if you click on the link to check it out or participate, take you to a page where there will be a message (small print, of course) at the very bottom of the page saying that if you 'play' whatever game, etc. it is, you will be signing up for that site's service, at typically $9.95 or so a month, and that the charge will be added to your cell phone. Higher up on the page, it asks you to fill in your cell phone number in a form; and when you do, you have 'signed up' for the service, often without realizing it. It may seem at the time so innocent putting one's cell phone # in that we might not even remember doing it, until the cell phone bill comes. Sometimes the website will even suggest another reason, right next to the field for entering the cell phone #, for asking for it; for example, it might entice you by saying that it will text you if you win a prize. So, if you haven't read the text at the bottom, that tells about the $9.95 per month, you might think that giving your cell phone information is harmless.

I'm sure that often the people whose post lead another person to 'click' and go to the site also didn't realize that they had 'signed up' for the service!