{"id":14,"date":"2009-08-16T22:18:55","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T03:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericgharrison.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/16\/sms-service-thieves"},"modified":"2009-08-16T22:18:55","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T03:18:55","slug":"sms-service-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"SMS service thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"msgcns!E4092A968B7C1A54!455\" class=\"bvMsg\">\n<p>Wow, two scams in one night.<\/p>\n<p>On Deb\u2019s most recent cell phone bill, there were two charges for SMS based services, neither of which she signed up for:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS305US305&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=mobile+messenger+scam\">Mobile Messenger<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripoffreport.com\/Solow-com\/Miscellaneous-Compan\/Solow-com-SendMe-Inc-Fraudulan-C4394.htm\">SendMe, Inc.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you search for these two companies, you will find a ton of fraud alerts about them.\u00a0 How is it that they keep getting away with this?\u00a0 Obviously they are making money, despite the states that sue them and get settlements from them.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the governments should make it a point not to settle, but to put these thieves out of business and put the owners in jail?<\/p>\n<p>We are pretty positive that these services got Deb\u2019s phone number from Facebook, so be careful out there!\u00a0 Of course, to verify your account, you must provide your cell phone # to Facebook, maybe we should all go remove it from our Facebook accounts \u2013 something I\u2019m going to go do right now\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, two scams in one night. On Deb\u2019s most recent cell phone bill, there were two charges for SMS based services, neither of which she signed up for: Mobile MessengerSendMe, Inc. If you search for these two companies, you will find a ton of fraud alerts about them.\u00a0 How is it that they keep getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericgharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}