Comments on: Skill2Thrill Cell Phone Trivia Scam!

By: Landscaping Victoria

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By: Aamir

Aamir — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 12:02:23 +0000

SOLUTION FOR SKILL2THRILL problem.
This skill2thrill company is stealing money from many people across various countries. In saudi arabia, they steal 5 Riyals from STC and 12 Riyals from Mobily and Zain (I think).

To get rid of this problem on STC, do these steps:

send all to 805218. This will tell u the number of subscriptions you have with a message like this:

Welcome to Test

Your subscriptions are:

Service: content
ChannelID: 6

To cancel your subscription, send U followed by a space and then the channel ID to 805218.

DO NOT LEAVE THIS UNTIL U GET THE FOLLOWING MSG:

You have been successfully unsubscribed from service content.

and to check again if this curse is still following you, send again U 6 to 805218 and you must get this msg:

Dear customer, you have no subscription to any service.

Till now I have done this BUT haven’t tested if this problem is fully resolved!!!

MAY ALLAH CURSE THESE PEOPLE WHO DO SUCH THINGS TO HARM OTHERS.

If you find it useful, do pray for me,

Aamir

By: madhu

madhu — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:23:06 +0000

hi this is big scam on my prepaid phone they deducted the 80 $ from the prepaid amount with in a month, we did not sign, never open a website.

pl. be carefull

By: Helen

Helen — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:09:41 +0000

Hi Margaret, also in Qatar, just wanted to clarify as my boss has been getting this regularly on his phone, so have replied stop to the number and this def works? Sometimes in the UK when you do this it simply verifies that the number is in use so you get more of the same…
Thanks for all the help guys.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 18:43:42 +0000

We are having the same problem here - expats living in Qatar. Luckily this is my daughter’s new phone and the charges have been just for 2 weeks. She absolutely did not click on any website - she swears and has been charged approx $75 USD so far. Checking with our mobile phone provider now to see if they will reverse the charges. Also texting STOP to stop future charges. Thanks for the advice.

By: Carolanne

Carolanne — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:35:54 +0000

By-the-way she was charged $54 but she didn’t pay. I called Rogers in no certain terms would she be paying this!

By: Carolanne

Carolanne — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:33:52 +0000

Calling people dumb is rude and cruel. My elderly mother fell into this lovely little scam. If you can’t contribute in a positive way keep your mouth shut!!!!!

By: Carolanne

Carolanne — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 15:33:52 +0000

Calling people dumb is rude and cruel. My elderly mother fell into this lovely little scam. If you can’t contribute in a positive way keep your mouth shut!!!!!

By: bk

bk — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 18:37:20 +0000

I was also the scum victim of this silly trivia. I have paid more than 150. I was in the impersssion that the the huge amount in my bill was a charge that I made a call while in USA. But I niotice again a huge amount when I get back from my trip. I could not belive the charge. I call my provider,fido and i was told it was from third party charge Called Skill2Trill Trivia. I indicated to my provider and to the third party I will not pay the bill(extra bill apart from my povider). If they want to discontniue the service because of third party I told them so be it.To me it looks the service providers are behind this scum. So lets join force and go against this scum.
Bk

By: Julia

Julia — Sun, 20 May 2012 21:33:55 +0000

You guys *really* need to read the fine print on these ads - you know, the stuff where it says you’ll be charged $X amount per text, what you can do to stop it, heck - the ads flat out SAY they’re a premium text messaging service! I’m sorry, but anyone who seriously participates in one of these “contests” is a gullible, foolish idiot in my book.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:44:13 +0000

We just received our phone bill and was charged $42.00 for this Skill2Thrill scam…We e-mailed our cell provider and threatened getting a lawyer involved if they did not credit our account for these charges…They e-mailed us back and said that they are crediting our account as we speak…

By: joanne

joanne — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:22:03 +0000

We we were billed approximately $500.00 for a whole year’s worth of this skill2thrill garbage. We had been receiving messages all along on our cell phone but were not aware that we were being charged, in fact we were ignoring the messages until we phoned Rogers to ask them to stop the harassing texts. Rogers should not allow these scam artists to do what they do. Rogers makes it so easy for these sleezy people by collecting money for them and insisting that we pay or they will cut our phone service. A class action law suit is what skill to thrill deserves. They are not supplying a service to anyone all the while collecting handsomely. Companies like these should be wiped out.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:32:46 +0000

I have had no problems with this company. I don’t mind paying $2.00 for the questions. I have won a few things so far and have recieved them. If I don’t want to continue recieving the messages then I simply send a STOP reply. I have checked my cell phone bill and have not been charged and the Skill2Thrill company had not asked me for money for the questions. Believe what you people want.

By: helen

helen — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:13:27 +0000

I was one of the victim too, please beware. I thought just the one time deal and after they keep sending me text. And only if you response to their text then you will get charge but I was wrong. I ended up paying 80$ for the stupid trivia.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:07:27 +0000

I also got stung on this scam and it was a work phone. I have no recollection of signing up to win anything or to play a game. I began receiving text type questions all of a sudden. I spoke to my supervisor about a problem with my phone but she was unaware, didn’t care or too busy. Months went by and no one advised me of my cell bill which had tripled in cost. All of a sudden I received a reprimand letter with threats in it advising I must pay all of these costs back to the company. I almost lost my job over this. I called the cell phone company and they gave me the number to this Skill2Thrill game. They seemed to be aware of this and had the number handy. When I talked to one of their service agents they advised me to send an email to customer service which I did outlining that this number was a work phone and that I didn’t activate this. I received a very rude answer and there was no way they would refund my money. I say we should start a class-action law suite against these people. I cannot believe that scams like this are allowed to go on.