Does anyone know anything about these?
I have a pay as you go Vodaphone mobile which I use for swinging contacts and nothing else.
Yesterday I received a text on this phone which said I was subscribed to *Astroscopes*, a daily astrological forecast which the message said would cost me per month unless I replied to the message to unsubscribe from the service.
I thought it was a scam so did not reply to it.
Today I received the first of these *forecasts* as a text message, which at the end of it said I could stop receiving these by texting the word *stop* to a given number.
I have never subscribed to any mobile phone message alerts, nor given this number out over the net or anywhere else, so what I'm hoping someone can tell me is -
Is this a scam to get me to confirm the number is active by getting me to reply?
How can I find out how this came to be on my phone? Would Vodaphone be able to tell me if someone else has used my number to subscribe to something?
Since I have already received a daily forecast and had no credit deducted from my account, surely they would take the money before sending the messages, can I assume it is a wind up and credit will not be deducted?
Your ideas would be appreciated please
Tracy-Jayne