Sunday, December 21, 2008

Be Careful...

Update: I called ATT and they took the charges off with no problem. (Yes, they already hit me up with another $14.99 charge for this month.) ATT has been very accommodating to me and other issues in the past! Great company!
I just got my ATT bill in the mail and I was charged $14.99 by a service called playphone.inc. In Novermber I got a new phone and I made a decision not to buy games, ringtones, etc. to save some money, so I had no idea where this charge came from. I looked it up and then it came to me how it happened. I clicked on some link to take an IQ quiz about a month ago. (I know...like I have that time right?) Anyway, it said to put in my cell number to get the results. When I did, it texted me back that I had 30 credits. I was confused, but never responded to the text. When I looked up playphone on the internet the same IQ test popped up. I am hoping ATT will reimburse me for my stupidity! :) But anyhow..learn from my mistake and be careful when you take quizzes on the internet. I guess my IQ was not so high after all! :)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's good to know! Thanks for warning us. I may have to blog about it for my readers!
I got charged $12 twice for buying something off of Expedia. They cancelled all the charges easily. I'm pretty sure it's fraud so they should remove the charge without a problem. Let me know how it goes!
~Lori

Anonymous said...

The same exact thing happened to me! That is so aggrivating! I had my charges taken off easily, I told them I did not sign up for anything and should not be charged. No issues.

Kim

C:M:W said...

That exact thing happen to my mom and she was able to get the 12 dollars dropped.

moodie said...

I just got caught on this one too. I put in my cell phone thinking I would get the IQ score and I did NOT agree to the terms and conditions box and just closed the web page and I still got a text message from them with a PIN. I have emailed a cancellation and explained the situation and said I did not authorize anything so don't bill me. We'll see if they are honest or not and I will repost.
I just reported them to McAfee and I hope they will take care of it. They have a few complaints there too and the site is officially not very well rated by McAfee:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/playphone.com