Premium Texts and How Dangerous They Can Get

 

Premium SMS text message scams are on the rise these days with the increasing number of scammers. What happens is that you start receiving text messages about certain alerts that you did not subscribe for and you are charged for every alert that you get. These scams are very dangerous because by the end of it all, the victim ends up losing a lot of money to the scammers.

 

Premium text messages were initially very beneficial to phone users because the phone users could receive alerts of about anything that they wanted to subscribe to. If for instance you wanted to know about the current movies, what is trending in the fashion industry, news about celebrities, what is going on in sports and so many other things, you would subscribe for a daily alert, which was charged. The problem is that scammers have learned how to use these premium texts to their advantage and they are pocketing a lot of money from genuine phone users without the user’s knowledge.

 

The thing with these scams is that one normally does not know how they got into them in the first place and therefore often have no idea how to stop them. Most of the people that have fallen victims to the same usually cannot remember even subscribing to them.

 

Nonetheless, the longer you take to figure out what to do the higher your bills get and you are still likely to lose much more money to the scam. It is time to know about these scams so that people will be on the lookout at all times whenever they are receiving premium sms text messages so that they can easily tell the messages that come from such scams. Once you know this, you will be able to stop these scammers before you lose more money to them.

 

How to Avoid Being a Victim of These Scams

1. Block premium sms texts from coming through to your phone. The phones that we are using these days are very intelligent artificially and you can easily block such messages from being received on your phone. Talk to your service provider who should be of great help to you. This way, you will not become a victim of these scammers. The only problem with this is that you will not be able to subscribe for anything after that. If for instance you want to subscribe to receive breaking news daily through your phone, you will not be able to once you block these text messages on your phone.

2. If you have already started receiving these text messages, reply STOP so as not to receive them again. You will be charged for this and you will have lost money to the scammers but at least they will not be able to steal from you again.

3. There is a service ‘Do not call or do not solicit Registry’ that you can add your number to so that you will never ever receive such premium texts on your phone. With this too, you will not be able to subscribe to anything in the future.

 

If you have a problem trying to stop these premium sms text messages from coming through to your phone and you do not want to take time doing this, it will be better to call your phone service provider so as to help you with it. Remember that if you take a long time to do this, you will end up losing more money and these scammers will continue scamming other users. That is why something needs to be done about it soon and fast enough as well.