Petition Stop once and for all unsolicited SMS fraud in the UK

Shady companies are sending fraudulent unsolicited premium rate SMS text messages to mobile phone owners in the UK. These cost recipients up to £4.50 a message often resulting in huge bills to the victim as the fraud is likely to go unnoticed for long periods of time.

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Find a detailed description of the issue here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3580058/Thousands-hit-4-50-time-scam-Customers-facing-bills-hundreds-pounds-texts-advertising-gaming-services-pornographic-content.html

This petition posits it should be a legal requirement for phone carriers to:

Not allow these services be activated on a customer’s account unless they have explicitly requested so (e.g. a representative of the carrier calls the customer to confirm activation of this service was indeed requested). If a carrier does not have this framework in place, they should not be allowed to operate premium SMS services at all.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

30 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 30 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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10,000 signatures required to get a government response

Date closed 14 August 2018
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