We need to shut Down TopiKoo.com

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11 comments, last by rip-off 8 years, 5 months ago

I was doing a random quiz on my phone and then with no warrning it's say I have subcribed and now paying them 6.90 a week WTF.

I did a google and it been taken peoples money for a while. Why has no authority taken it down.

In doing that to me my fine print say's anyone taken money from me illegally grant me the right to hunt them down and do what I want to them all. They should of read the fine print before taken me cash.

Now How do we stop them.

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call your credit card company and get your money back.

Also adding "If you take my money I'll kill you" doesn't work out in court. In fact, it removes the ability for a potential homocide to be ruled a manslaughter, since it proves premeditation.

Basically, don't ever browse clickbait, never link a credit card to an app store, and install a mobile browser that removes all adds (like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.adblockplus.browser&hl=en). Take it as a lesson learned.

There 's no Oh I accidentally stole your cash. Oh ok mr criminal it's ok. No Its not ok.

I was doing a random quiz on my phone and then with no warrning it's say I have subcribed and now paying them 6.90 a week WTF.

A quiz that involved you giving them your phone number? An SMS quiz? The one that had fine print advertising a $6.90/week subscription?
If it was an SMS quiz, send another SMS containing just: STOP

Then call your phone company and tell them that you've been scammed, and that you demand that the deduction be refunded. Threaten to lodge a complaint with the ombudsman if it's not refunded - that will immediately get you transferred from "customer service" (who's job is to get you to hang up) to "customer care" (who's job is to stop you from taking your business to a competitor). While you're talking to them, ask them to put a block on "premium SMS" services, as that is what this scam will be using to bill you.
Then file a formal complaint with the telecommunications industry ombudsman anyway.
And don't sign up for any more SMS scams.

No They lifted all the data I filled out no data at all.

Its in deed active I rang the Telco and they told me to send STOP to there number and then they ban that client.

This is bull they know about what there doing.

this is a black opp getting cash for the terrist. Why else can they get my phone number. I repeat I never fill out any info it was the first button I pressed.

But they still get that text message money $1 from millions fo people no wonder the terrist are going to win we are week and spineless.

And there going to use meta data to track what then. Now we need our guns more then ever.

This is how the terrist are getting there cash. Crush there sculls.

Oh and if you can't tell I am Raging.......I'll be raging till then next months bill. Heaven help any bad boy crosses my path in that time.

If you find yourself thinking, "hey maybe I should take this quiz", my suggestion is: no, don't do the quiz. Seriously. You have better things to do with your time. You might not think so, but it's true. I know that's only tangentially related, but the core assertion here is that "media consumers" tend to become afflicted with the worst of the bad stuff. "Media producers", on the other hand, receive less. Spend your free time making, creating and doing instead of consuming what (questionable) content others have shoved in front of you, and I promise you'll get less of the crud.

There was nothing on TV and it was 7.30 am and my mind wanted some action.

Would of been better of listening to me groin. Dumb ass crumpets

I was doing a random quiz on my phone and then with no warrning it's say I have subcribed and now paying them 6.90 a week WTF.

Now How do we stop them.

"We" don't. You do, and eventually the police may.

Its in deed active I rang the Telco and they told me to send STOP to there number and then they ban that client.

About calling the company and discussing with them. How can you really be so naive? (I am trying hard to avoid saying "stupid").

This is an openly fraudulent company, do you really expect you can discuss with them? What's with sending them SMS to a presumably high-charge number? Seriously? What, other than them having verified your phone number, do you expect to be the result?

Now to the facts... Tekka is a company registered in London, and therefore subject to EU regulations/laws. This means, among others the following:

  • If you did not tell them your phone number / data, they (and Facebook or whoever they got it from) have very clearly broken privacy laws. Normally, one would report this to the privacy assignee, which unless at least two dozen other people do the same won't result in a lot of consequences (other than a letter). Your personal data is however being used for criminal purposes, which means you can (and should) involve the police. Since this is a low-risk intervention with high rewards, police will just love the case (other than arresting a drug addict or protecting you from that guy with an axe who is trying to kill you... these are nonrewarding high-risk interventions -- police will not show until they can be certain that it's safe, so... the next day).
  • You did not explicitly agree to a subscription (assuming what you said is correct), so there is no legal contract. Charge back any money withdrawn from your credit card, and report every incident to the police.
  • They did not tell you that you have the right to revoke the subscription without stating a reason within 14 days (which they are required to do). Have your lawyer send them a terminate note along with a C&D. This costs around 300-500 Euros, which they will have to pay (not you).
  • Do not send them SMS. Not only are these likely high-cost numbers (so you are giving them money!), but also you are confirming your number with them, and you create a paper trail which might -- in a contrieved case -- be used to argue that you do have some kind of business relationship.
  • Do not send them SMS and expect to get the money back from your phone company. That won't happen. Why should they give you the money back? You did send those SMS, and charging for SMS is what they make their living from. Who cares why you sent the SMS, as long as you sent them. Meanwhile, trying to get your money back from your phone company, you are beginning a second war (which you are unlikely to win). Don't waste your money and energy that way.
  • In case you receive demands for payment or mail from a collection agency, do not pay whatever they are asking, nor any of the additional "fees". Hand it to your lawyer, or just ignore it (99% sure it's only empty threats hoping that you are stupid enough to pay). Do not let them scare you, the way this usually works is that you get two or three threat letters with "fees" accumulating quickly. The second letter will usually already be in the low hundreds of Euros/dollars. The plan is to coerce you into paying out of a panic reaction since "fees" are accumulating that fast. Once you are stupid enough to pay, you never get your money back.

For the future, learn from this experience that it's already not a brilliant idea to click on an ad in the first place (no matter how bored you are), and there is rarely a valid reason to provide personal details to some random stranger either. Surely not to

About calling the company and discussing with them. I rang my phone company not them, there the one who told me to send stop I never wanted to send them stop but I had no choice, my telco told me to.

Plus I am not on face book or any thing like that. The real question is how did they lift my phone number from IOS IPhone.

All I did was search quiz google clicked then bam one click auto subscription, they even generated a password for me kind of them.

So Iphone is no longer getting on the net. You can't protect aganist this, means no net at all.

And my telco company is giving the cost back so they said we will see.

The Dark Knight rises. At least I don't have to dig holes to put them in theres a sink hole near every one. To the pitt with them they go.

Here are the punks. Yeah I wonder it links to uk, Italy.

Lungo Dora Pietro Colletta, 67
10154 Torino
Italy

https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Lungo+Dora+Pietro+Colletta,+67,+10154+Torino,+Italy/@45.0747416,7.7120649,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x478872885943c085:0x8654e6c00a8b625a

Yep Terrorist.


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