This is one frog that should ‘croak’
A new version for the theme from Beverly Hill’s Cop, Crazy Frog Axel F, became the first ring tone to reach no.1 in the U.K, singles chart (what kind of music do they listen to?). It has been a craze all over U.K….. until now. There are stories emerging about how Jamster is robbing customers. One user, Hannah Bayman, ordered the ring tone after seeing an advertisement on T.V and since then, she has been sent hundreds of messages from Jamster inviting her to download more ring tones. Hannah was charged £3 for every message she received from Jamster!!! Many clueless mobile users get signed up for such services and they get charged for the spam they receive as messages. I had the same problem with sms.ac, I was sent spam everyday and at the end of the month I was charged by Rogers for the spam I received. The customer service at Rogers said it was no point changing my phone number as whoever is sending these ‘premium’ messages would find me anyway as long as I am on the Rogers network. Does that mean that our phone networks are giving out our personal information to any company that would pay something like 1 cent for a phone number? What happened to all the laws out there protecting our personal information? We blame hackers for identity thefts when there are companies we should trust that sell our personal information.
