Comments on: digitaltoast warns of SMS-TXT.co.uk scam

By: steve procter

steve procter — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:32:26 +0000

who is the aggregator? what is the shortcode and I should be able to tell you who it goes through. You could then contact them and have it turned off.

Or simply call icstis and tell them to get it suspended if some rules have been broken.

steve/itagg.com

By: Steve Birch

Steve Birch — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:04:20 +0000

Txtnation’s Latest Ripoff – Seems that that Txtnation (scamnation) charge Â£1.50 for each error sms sent back to clients, and they have turned their services off for a week now, all my site members are getting error messages back all day when they try to renew their membership, what a great way for txtnation to make money.

Someone shut this amateur ripoff company txtnation down please.

Has anyone else had the same problem this week with them?

Steve

By: Chris Shomark

Chris Shomark — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 16:44:57 +0000

Txntation are the biggest scam sms company I have ever known, they owe lots of people lots of money. How do they get away with it, and how do they stay in business – My advice – AVOID THEM

By: James Hastings

James Hastings — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 18:45:48 +0000

As far as I know txtNationt have blocked and banned this site to which started of as a free site and then started to break the rules. The owner of this sms-txt site is obvisouly a con man and could have done with any company. txtNation have done what every other company would have done and have stopped them dead in their tracks.
Jim

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:46:25 +0000

I think that's horrible! I took over Free Text a few months ago and have been trying to bring it upmarket into a transparent, easy to use Free SMS service. I have a number of new bits about to launch, but feedback it appreciated. I would hate for people to think of our site along these lines.

By: Olly

Olly — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:21:16 +0000

It most definitely is a scam. The statement ‘Standard text messages are free’ is purposely misleading, as is the format ’500p’. Violation of Service Policy, I think. Furthermore, although Fiach Reid makes Â£3 profit on each text read by phone, he has the cheek to ask for an additional Paypal donation, ‘to keep the service free’. I’d love to put this guy in a locked room with some of his victims and a box of cattle prods.

By: Jon Harris

Jon Harris — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:30:17 +0000

Update: I’ve read the rules of his provider,
http://client.txtnation.com/safe.php?p=TAC which says:
“3. Violation of Service Policy
J. Billing users then not making sufficient efforts to inform customers about the billing model.”
This does seem to conflict with his “standard text messages are free” note in the footer.

By: digitaltoast

digitaltoast — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 09:22:35 +0000

http://www.sms-txt.co.uk scam warning

Warning! There is a website which allows you to send a free text from the internet.
What it doesnt mention is that the recipient is charged Â£5.
(Update: This is referred to over at SMS Text News)
Here is what the sender sees, tuck…

By: steve procter

steve procter — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 08:21:16 +0000

A real shame this one because there is a very good idea behind it. But clearly there is absolutely no place for this kind of over-charging service in our world.

So will the aggregator behind sms-txt.co.uk please stand up and declare why you feel you can continue to provide an sms gateway for them?

cheers
steve
iTAGG.com