Stop once and for all unsolicited SMS fraud in the UK

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Stop once and for all unsolicited SMS fraud in the UK

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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.

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