WhatsApp upgrade SMS - be cautious

faniedry said:
If you fall for this, you must be a special kind of retard.
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true.. but remember there are older non-IT folks around the country. Easy victims...

edit: I got the SMS scam about 2 weeks ago. Knew it was some type of scam, told the wife to be careful.
 
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faniedry said:
If you fall for this, you must be a special kind of retard.
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so, you wouldn't expect a 55 year old gogo to fall for this?

these scams aren't aimed at the internet savvy crowd, it's aimed at the non computer literate part of the population.
 
Honestly, why do we have WASPA if they don't do anything about this? This service is literally faking their association with WhatsApp for a profit - that can't be legal. In an ideal world their WASPA "license" or something would be revoked and all of their existing customers' billing stopped (that's why you need the networks) until they stop this fraud.

Personally I blame the network operators for supporting a sick business model.

Yes I would never fall for this but my family (bunch of medical professionals) would probably...
 
Why would Whatsapp...who provide an instant messaging service...use SMS to deliver their messages.

That alone already makes it a simple to detect scam.



More worrying is that the SP's allow this to continue.
 
ebendl said:
Honestly, why do we have WASPA if they don't do anything about this? This service is literally faking their association with WhatsApp for a profit - that can't be legal. In an ideal world their WASPA "license" or something would be revoked and all of their existing customers' billing stopped (that's why you need the networks) until they stop this fraud.

Personally I blame the network operators for supporting a sick business model.

Yes I would never fall for this but my family (bunch of medical professionals) would probably...
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This
Why are Waspa and the cellphone service providers not taking action.
It is pure greed and they don't care as long as the money is rolling in.
 
ebendl said:
Honestly, why do we have WASPA if they don't do anything about this? This service is literally faking their association with WhatsApp for a profit - that can't be legal. In an ideal world their WASPA "license" or something would be revoked and all of their existing customers' billing stopped (that's why you need the networks) until they stop this fraud.

Personally I blame the network operators for supporting a sick business model.

Yes I would never fall for this but my family (bunch of medical professionals) would probably...
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My thinking exactly! The SPs are helping these scammers get away with it. Follow the money - if it leaves you and goes to MTN/Vodacom/Cell C/Telkom, then that is your port of call. I remember I wanted to ask them at the MyBB conference during the panel why they do NOT protect their customers' interests - then they never had a QnA.

I will corner them on this one day, in front of a crowd and in each other's company, so that they are obliged to answer and do something about it.
 
R7 a day premium services should not exist, period.
It's also a pain in the ass to get the money back, the networks expect you get money back from the actual scammers...

It should be the networks responsibility to give you the money back, and they should be the ones going through all the crap getting it from the scammers.
 
It says in bold you are subscribing for R7 per day services
 
faniedry said:
Geez, looks like I offended some people. Obviously some of the ones that fell for it ;)

I apologise profusely.
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No. We are just calling you ignorant for saying that people who fall for this are " a special kind of retard".
As others have said, people who fall for something like these kind of scams are not tech savy. So does that make them retards?
 
HideInLight said:
R7 a day premium services should not exist, period.
It's also a pain in the ass to get the money back, the networks expect you get money back from the actual scammers...

It should be the networks responsibility to give you the money back, and they should be the ones going through all the crap getting it from the scammers.
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Fully agree.
 
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