R/Day Subscryptions

[roosjj]

I received a SMS this morning welcoming me to a Service for R7/Day, to witch I haven't subscribed on.
I phoned Vodacom and had this service (and two others) removed.
I asked if they can disable this kind of services so I wont be able to "subscribe" to it in future?
So now I found that you cannot and I would not be able to get this "service" if I did not accept to the terms of conditions. I then asked the operator to give me his number so I can show him how easy it is to "accept" this services using his number and that he wont even know I did it. So I didn't get his number... wonder why that might be?

So my question:
Who can one contact to implement a system that:
1) Send you a SMS/USSD message to confirm that you did indeed subscribe to a service and/or
2) Be able to disable/enable such service requests AND
3) Force Service Providers to give you this (my) suggestions as a law?

Everything these days try to aim to prevent fraud, so why isn't this been implemented already?

 

[BlackMamba]

Ahbhh R/day subscription...... nightmare, I got an SMS out of nowhere congratulating on joining the service... I immediately sent the stop all sms

 

[roosjj]

Thing is, I don't want to get bothered with this. Would rather disable this totally on my account, but said it "cannot" be done, also the R/Day was already subtracted from my account when I got the SMS.

 

[Nemus]

Thing is, I don't want to get bothered with this. Would rather disable this totally on my account, but said it "cannot" be done, also the R/Day was already subtracted from my account when I got the SMS.

This might help:
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/97071-disappearing-airtime-unsubscribe-all-wasps.html

 

[roosjj]

This might help:
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/cellular/97071-disappearing-airtime-unsubscribe-all-wasps.html

Yes, would help only after you get subscribed, not the best way to prevent it. As they say, prevention is better than the cure

 

[Nerfherder]

Thing is, I don't want to get bothered with this. Would rather disable this totally on my account, but said it "cannot" be done, also the R/Day was already subtracted from my account when I got the SMS.

Don't we all....

I think VC was supposed to add double authorisation so you had to confirm twice that you wanted the service but looks like that has either fallen away or not happened.

 

[Sig_sys_7]

Implement rules for radicals, rule 4.
"Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules.

If you did not subscribe for the service, the wasp and the operator are colluding in fraud and waspa is enabling and protecting the racket. You must do the right thing and report it as a crime.
Criminal case at saps, the rightly entity for these matters. Stop trying to plead with operators. They, and their staff do not want to help you.
Forward to WASPA with criminal case number.
Copy [email protected] with a case number, the hawks electronic crime unit is obliged to investigate.