dan_28 wrote on Dec 2
nd, 2005 at 9:45pm:
Does anyone have a landline no. for this company. They have sent me a non requested text message and charged me £1.50 for the privalige. Is that a scam or what. neeless to say I am very
I assume its not possible to yet complain to
www.icstis.org.uk about reverse text message scams although I think it should be possible soon given the contents of a current consultation to bring all Premium Rate services using mobiles under ICSTIS control.
My suggestion would be email Opera, reach deadlock with them (take non reply as deadlock), then approach
www.otelo.org.uk to see if they belong to their Alternate Dispute Resolution Scheme. If they are not registered with Otelo email Ofcom Director of Investigations (david.stewart@ofcom.org.uk) asking him to investigate Opera's lack of an ADR scheme. Don't bother with the Ofcom Contact Centre who employ staff hand picked for their ability to claims nothing is Ofcom's problem and their total lack of any sympathetic customer manner.
I have received unsolicited emails exhorting me to call 09 prize lines for which the telecoms provider was Opera. I registered complaints about those on the
www.icstis.org.uk website.
It seems that Opera is willing to run 09 and 07 scam lines for any dodgy scamline company. Companies like Opera should be closed down by Ofcom if of course Ofcom actually had any regulatory teeth.