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MEO does that in Portugal. With your phone you visit (probably) an ad on a website and you're automatically subscribed to some 3rd party service that charges 3€
by ino 9y ago
MEO does that in Portugal. With your phone you visit (probably) an ad on a website and you're automatically subscribed to some 3rd party service that charges 3€ a week from your mobile operator credit.
Then you call MEO to cancel the service and then you learn they're not refunding your money and that instead of this 1€ call you could have disabled the 3rd party services through their web login.
It's incredibly hostile, and there are more dirty tricks they use.
- whataretensors 9y agoYikes, a chargeback would have to hit your phone carrier directly. Did you try calling your phone carrier? No way this is legal.
- ino 9y agoMEO is the phone carrier. They're the largest one in Portugal, previously called TMN. They're the ones I called. I can't edit to make my post clearer. I'm also not their customer anymore.
- That-one-thing 9y agoDo you have any source for this that I could look at?
- ino 9y agoI've found some reddit threads (in Portuguese): https://www.reddit.com/r/portugal/comments/4hj1l7/servico_de_assinatura_activado_por_visitar_website/ https://www.reddit.com/r/portugal/comments/4hj1l7/servico_de... https://www.reddit.com/r/portugal/comments/4nchbc/subscrição_de_serviços_por_sms_vindos_do_nada/ https://www.reddit.com/r/portugal/comments/4nchbc/subscrição... This is not new. TMN/MEO subscription shit has been going on for more than 10 years, but before widespread mobile internet it looked more like a SMS fishing attempt to get you subscribed.
- JetSpiegel 9y agoMEO is now a subsidiary of Altice, a French company.
- r-w 9y agoI believe Altice bought Optimum/Cablevision earlier this year.