Premium SMS is a paid messaging service that can increase the price of our monthly bill without realizing it. In case of paying a fixed price it is easy to discover if there is any irregularity, but there are times when it is more difficult to detect this. Now, they are demanding that all operators deactivate the SMS Premium service by default.
However, in case you have been a victim of this, there are ways to disable Premium SMS.
A way to scam people
It is not only with this type of messaging that you can get money from people over the phone. For example, the paid SMS that had their “boom” many years ago were used to download games or songs to our mobile phone, among other things. However, in this way they used to charge a lot of money since it was necessary to send more than one SMS to complete the whole process.
Calls to national rate numbers (902, 806, 905…) have also been a means of payment for a long time, although these numbers are gradually being discontinued.
In the case of Premium SMS, the customer pays to receive information. On many occasions, people subscribe to this service without realizing it , paying for it. For seven years, many people have claimed to be scammed by this service.
How to unsubscribe from the Premium SMS service?
To unsubscribe and avoid being charged there are two options. One of them is by contacting our operator and unsubscribe from the Premium SMS service, while the other is to send an SMS with the word “BAJA” to the sender of the service.
In the case of the operator, each one has their own way of canceling this service. For example, in Orange you can freely activate or deactivate the function, while with Vodafone you can block recipients of SMS or special rate calls. Regardless of the company you are from, do not hesitate to contact customer service to be fully informed on how to unsubscribe from the SMS Premium service.
As for the second option, there will be times when sending an SMS with the word “LOW” will not work since it may be a scam or a service to which we have inadvertently subscribed by providing our personal data.
In the case of a deception, this way of unsubscribing from the service does not work, so it is always better to contact your operator and have them unsubscribe from the Premium SMS service.