Strange R8.77 on my bill, every day at 14:00 for 1 second

[psichron]

On my Altech bill for January 2009, it shows a list of calls under "SA Originating Other". Each call is made within about 5 minutes of 14:00, the Number Dialed just shows "082" and the Duration is "00:00:01". The Cost is "8.77".
This adds up to about R263 per month.

Any idea what I'm being billed for? Obviously it's not a phone call, since the dialed number is 082. What else can cost you R8.77 for one second's use?

 

[marine1]

To fund the court case maybe?

 

[noswal]

If you can check online for your current months bill to see if it is still occurring I suggest turning off your phone today and each day during this 2pm period until its resolved.

 

[Avatar_5]

R8.77 * 1.14 = R10, it's a round R10 down every week. I'd guess you got a ringtone or game or something from a place that subscribes you to their service.

 

[waynegohl]

i went to an advert on my pc one day (it was the fortune cookie one), and never read the small script and the next day or so about R8.00 odd was disappearing off my phone. now being on prepaid i only have R12 voucher a week and with that amount going off i started to worry until i realised it was that and i had to go find the advert and unsubscribe.

so maybe it is that.

 

[psichron]

R8.77 * 1.14 = R10, it's a round R10 down every week. I'd guess you got a ringtone or game or something from a place that subscribes you to their service.

No, it's R10 down every day... I didn't subscribe to any ringtone/games...

 

[Shahil]

How about phoning Altech and finding out? Though I'm guessing you have done this already. You probably unknowingly subscribed to something I reckon.