A Metroblogging Los Angeles California blogger shares her story and asks “Class Action Lawsuit?”
“So I’m sitting here at my desk and my phone plays its “you have a text message” tune. Three times. Not being a teenaged girl, you might imagine the number of text messages I get is pretty low, so this is unusual. I look at the messages, and they are all from 90900, the Joke of the Day mobile phone service (jokemobi.com).”
“The first message gives me the PIN I will need to start the service, and the next two messages are a second invitation and the first joke.”
“I NEVER ASKED TO GET THIS and I din’t reply with the PIN number to start the service, but just to be safe I call AT&T and what do you know, WITHOUT MY PERMISSION they have enrolled me in this and already charged me $9.99.”
The L.A. blogger says she’d “love to know how many other people here have had this happen, and if any lawyers are interested in making these guys stop. I’m thinking class action lawsuits probably work that way.”
“It’s not just them sending unsolicited invitations (which suck because I’m charged for text messages) - what totally freaks me out that they just signed me up and started charging me without my permission.”
“How many people are being charged by them (and maybe others like them) without their knowledge???”