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£50,000 Fine For Premium Rate Text Competition Service

PhonepayPlus Executive (the ‘Executive’) received 53 complaints regarding a text prize competition subscription service operating on shortcodes 66333 and 63666. The service cost £2 per week and gave subscribers the chance to win [...]

£50,000 Fine Following Texting Complaints

PhonepayPlus received 51 complaints regarding unsolicited reverse billed SMS messages from short code 84300. The majority of complainants reported receiving blank messages with no content or receiving no messages at all but a charge of £5 per message to their phone bill. However, some complainants reported the receipt of messages stating [...]