WASPA Scam (AKINGA VERTICAL SERVI)

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Hey Guys

So I know people have been getting unauthorised billing from WASPA's for along time but this is the first time it happened to me.

Some quick facts
  1. I absolutely did not Click on/Agree to an of the pathetic "Games" I've been charged for.
  2. They started charging me in Jan this year for three "Games"
  3. They got me on my Fixed LTE router, so obviously I didn't read any of the SMSs
  4. They got me for over R500...R3 a day for each game
What I've done so far
  1. Had Telkom cancel all the "services"
  2. Logged a dispute with Telkom on the charges
  3. Reported unwanted billing to WASPA.org.za
  4. Set the spend limit on my LTE account to R1
  5. Changed my password on my Telkom Web portal
Some questions I had
  1. What's the best way of getting my money back, is it likely I will come right with the Telkom Mobile dispute process
  2. As this is a fixed LTE router how is it possible that the WASPA service were initiated, is it even possible for a device connected to my network to request/authorise such services to be charged to my LTE SIM?
  3. I wanted to Lodge a full complaint against this criminal enterprise they call AKINGA VERTICAL SERVI, but reading through the WASPA Code of Conduct, it doesnt require them to do much. All they have to do, on my reading, is send me a notification that they have started the service with an opt-out. They did this but it went to my router so I obviously never saw. Are there any other factors I can get them on.
Sorry I know there is alot online about this, but I always get great info from the MyBB community
 
I also see this had no effect as it was enabled ....

"They can also navigate to My Products > Manage > Protect Your Mobile Number, and set it to “On” to prevent any future WASP billing."
 
Valhallan said:
Hey Guys

So I know people have been getting unauthorised billing from WASPA's for along time but this is the first time it happened to me.

Some quick facts
  1. I absolutely did not Click on/Agree to an of the pathetic "Games" I've been charged for.
  2. They started charging me in Jan this year for three "Games"
  3. They got me on my Fixed LTE router, so obviously I didn't read any of the SMSs
  4. They got me for over R500...R3 a day for each game
What I've done so far
  1. Had Telkom cancel all the "services"
  2. Logged a dispute with Telkom on the charges
  3. Reported unwanted billing to WASPA.org.za
  4. Set the spend limit on my LTE account to R1
  5. Changed my password on my Telkom Web portal
Some questions I had
  1. What's the best way of getting my money back, is it likely I will come right with the Telkom Mobile dispute process
  2. As this is a fixed LTE router how is it possible that the WASPA service were initiated, is it even possible for a device connected to my network to request/authorise such services to be charged to my LTE SIM?
  3. I wanted to Lodge a full complaint against this criminal enterprise they call AKINGA VERTICAL SERVI, but reading through the WASPA Code of Conduct, it doesnt require them to do much. All they have to do, on my reading, is send me a notification that they have started the service with an opt-out. They did this but it went to my router so I obviously never saw. Are there any other factors I can get them on.
Sorry I know there is alot online about this, but I always get great info from the MyBB community
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Believe it or not, weather Telkom publicly accept it or not, AKINGA VERTICAL SERVICE is a shelf company / ghost company owned by Telkom just like other network providers, they all have this ghost company for stealing from the client why is why they are refusing to stop it. It is their secret cash cow. Good enough, Telkom is still far much better than of service providers as you can easily login to your account and disable all content services AND protect your sim card which is referred to ( Protection of your Mobile Number).

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See AKINGA VERTICAL SERVICE PROVIDER tried billing me in May 2020.. Luckily i had that protection thing on and saved me... they tried twice and failed...
 
Valhallan said:
Hey Guys

So I know people have been getting unauthorised billing from WASPA's for along time but this is the first time it happened to me.

Some quick facts
  1. I absolutely did not Click on/Agree to an of the pathetic "Games" I've been charged for.
  2. They started charging me in Jan this year for three "Games"
  3. They got me on my Fixed LTE router, so obviously I didn't read any of the SMSs
  4. They got me for over R500...R3 a day for each game
What I've done so far
  1. Had Telkom cancel all the "services"
  2. Logged a dispute with Telkom on the charges
  3. Reported unwanted billing to WASPA.org.za
  4. Set the spend limit on my LTE account to R1
  5. Changed my password on my Telkom Web portal
Some questions I had
  1. What's the best way of getting my money back, is it likely I will come right with the Telkom Mobile dispute process
  2. As this is a fixed LTE router how is it possible that the WASPA service were initiated, is it even possible for a device connected to my network to request/authorise such services to be charged to my LTE SIM?
  3. I wanted to Lodge a full complaint against this criminal enterprise they call AKINGA VERTICAL SERVI, but reading through the WASPA Code of Conduct, it doesnt require them to do much. All they have to do, on my reading, is send me a notification that they have started the service with an opt-out. They did this but it went to my router so I obviously never saw. Are there any other factors I can get them on.
Sorry I know there is alot online about this, but I always get great info from the MyBB community
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Oh, the why is easy, a person using the wifi connection initiated it.

I once put an office cleaner on a hotspot and soon was getting SMSs about failure to initiate such services for a few days while she was on that wifi.
 
You could always ask them in person to refund you :p
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Valhallan said:
Hey Guys

So I know people have been getting unauthorised billing from WASPA's for along time but this is the first time it happened to me.

Some quick facts
  1. I absolutely did not Click on/Agree to an of the pathetic "Games" I've been charged for.
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I visited IFLScience.com (a decently legit site) through their official facebook page and got an SMS saying I've been subscribed to something. Cancelled it, and visited it again to check that is was through their site, and got the sms again.

So yes, you can be subscribed through ads that these assholes serve through whatever ad provider.
 
supersunbird said:
Oh, the why is easy, a person using the wifi connection initiated it.

I once put an office cleaner on a hotspot and soon was getting SMSs about failure to initiate such services for a few days while she was on that wifi.
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How would that work, are they managing to read your sim number using some kind of identifier the Wi-Fi sim gives out?

I know MTN can somehow detect the number of my Mtn sim that is in my 4g router when I am connected to the router on my phone and I open the Mtn app on the phone.
 
Barbarian Conan said:
I visited IFLScience.com (a decently legit site) through their official facebook page and got an SMS saying I've been subscribed to something. Cancelled it, and visited it again to check that is was through their site, and got the sms again.

So yes, you can be subscribed through ads that these assholes serve through whatever ad provider.
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How did they get your cell number?
 
airborne said:
How would that work, are they managing to read your sim number using some kind of identifier the Wi-Fi sim gives out?

I know MTN can somehow detect the number of my Mtn sim that is in my 4g router when I am connected to the router on my phone and I open the Mtn app on the phone.
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Yes, it seems as if you are browsing from the hotspots number, the websites are able to pull the number.
 
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These A**holes have attached 4 times like a bush parasite to my DATA contract on my router!!! So, no finger trouble with a cellphone where you can accidentally subscribe, - they actually leeched onto my Telkom data contract. Can you believe that!...
 
hardo said:
These A**holes have attached 4 times like a bush parasite to my DATA contract on my router!!! So, no finger trouble with a cellphone where you can accidentally subscribe, - they actually leeched onto my Telkom data contract. Can you believe that!...
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No I can believe that, MTN now is even allowing Wasp spam messages to use the Emergency messaging system on their network. Fark they are so crooked
 
Just adding my 5c. I've had the same happen to me, have a Telkom SIM in an LTE router, in a holiday home. Just now realised when I looked at the bill that they are billing me for this "AKINGA VERTICAL SERVI" @ R3/day.

I used the Telkom app to view the Subscriptions on that number and see that it was "activated" in December, during the time that we were there. My only explanation would be that it came as part of a site or game or something that was using the WiFi while we were there.

Also now trying to find the option to "protect" my SIMs in case that can help. Bloody WASP services are just a fraud scheme, I have seen zero use for it, they really pray on the weak in the country. I've never seen anyone well knowledged get any benefit from any WASP service. They only exist to leach money from weak and elderly people that don't realise what is going on or and then finally when they figure it out, they cancel it but the WASP made a **** load of money for the few days (or sometimes months) they were online.

Also interestingly the WASP service subscription doesn't get cancelled when you run out of airtime, it just sits and waits until the number is recharged and then it continues to leach money. So unsuspecting victims that can't afford much get nailed every time they load 10 bucks to use.
 
Telkom doesn't by default OPT IN like VodaKACK does though (I don't know if it's still the case)

Why do these exist though. There is literally NO use for them.
 
Waste said:
Also interestingly the WASP service subscription doesn't get cancelled when you run out of airtime, it just sits and waits until the number is recharged and then it continues to leach money. So unsuspecting victims that can't afford much get nailed every time they load 10 bucks to use.
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That interesting, do the bills also add up in that time or does it just resume billing daily when the number is recharged?
 
Got subscribed to this two days ago even through the protect your mobile number feature was turned on... Noticed and deregistered the same day, but still frustrating...
 
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