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Old 10-12-2008, 11:30 PM
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Oh yea, someone should STOMP this or write to the local papers to make it known to the masses.

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Old 12-12-2008, 04:59 PM
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Thank you for highlighting this incident. I think a lot of consumers are unaware of such unethical practices.

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Old 13-12-2008, 03:05 AM
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Do something about this and lodge a complaint with the IDA by emailing the details to info@ida.gov.sg If SingTel is doing what you say they are then it's clearly a violation of the new Premium Rate Services code of practice (http://www.ida.gov.sg/doc/Policies%20and%20Regulation/Policies_and_Regulation_Level2/20070508145556/PRSvcCode.pdf)

Several smaller premium SMS providers have been fined already due to breaches - the IDA has some teeth here!

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Old 27-01-2009, 11:01 PM
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hey! me too! i ignored that stupid ad sms and deleted it without reading it.

i saw my bill. And i realised i was charged 3 months for that stupid color me tones!
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Old 09-03-2009, 11:43 AM
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I tried replying with UNSUB at least THREE times and they still keep smsing me. That's 15cents gone. Plus I have to pay for each incoming and outgoing SMS, and they KEEP SPAMMING ME WITH ADS.

Could someone go to the press about this?
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Old 02-04-2009, 11:45 AM
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I just received an sms from number "+741520". message saying 'Thanks for everything'.

Weird. What da heck man.
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Old 23-06-2009, 10:58 AM
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Well, this is an unfair tactic against the consumers. There is a Competition Commission created under the Competition Act which is a law passed to act against any unfair business practices that only favors the companies against the consumers or other competing companies.

http://www.salary.sg/2008/beware-of-.../#comment-5095
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I think this is one of those lousy business strategy that exploits on human weaknesses...

Put it this way: if there's like 10-20 in a marketing dept trying to keng something boost sales, stupid things like this bound to come up...

I guess for us consumers, the immediate action is to NOT ignore advertisement smses & really read what they say... the next thing is to alert the proper authorities...

Stressful world we live in hor?
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Old 23-06-2009, 11:32 AM
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How do we alert the proper authorities? What would you do if you receive such an sms from Singtel?
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