Complaint Review: Dada Mobile - Nationwide

First I want to say thanks for the advice, however my fiance and I are not the type to participate in TV shows, voting for our "fav" or anything to that effect. As I said in my first posting we had done NOTHING to warrant the charges, inadvertenly or otherwise...we use the phone as a phone and that is it..We have no use for it otherwise. He or I do not chat, text, surf the web, check our email, or anything else on the phone except (once again) to use it as a phone-a device to communicate vocally to another party and that is all. My fiance has the phone 99% of the time and in his line of work does not get the chance to talk or even use it ...his work is very physical and demanding and leaves no time to do anything frivilous. Truthfully, it is used in emergency purposes only or when there is a change in his schedule... Sorry if I sound rude, I just want to make sure that it is understood we don't use it for anything but a phone.

First I want to say thanks for the advice, however my fiance and I are not the type to participate in TV shows, voting for our "fav" or anything to that effect. As I said in my first posting we had done NOTHING to warrant the charges, inadvertenly or otherwise...we use the phone as a phone and that is it..We have no use for it otherwise. He or I do not chat, text, surf the web, check our email, or anything else on the phone except (once again) to use it as a phone-a device to communicate vocally to another party and that is all. My fiance has the phone 99% of the time and in his line of work does not get the chance to talk or even use it ...his work is very physical and demanding and leaves no time to do anything frivilous. Truthfully, it is used in emergency purposes only or when there is a change in his schedule... Sorry if I sound rude, I just want to make sure that it is understood we don't use it for anything but a phone.

Voted by text on one of the many tv show? Yep, they're signing you up that way. You click on a pop up for a "free" ringtone, they've got ya. You get an offer for a free wallpaper in your pop cap, guess what! Take a look at Dada Mobile, Jamster and Blinko's websites. But, for goodness sakes don't put in your mobile number!!! Look towards the bottom of the page and you will see where they tell about the 9.99 a month charge. I saw an ad in a woman's magazine which showed step by step how to download a ringtone and set it up on your cell phone. It was in a cartoon format. Hmmmm, got a 12 year old? The problem is there are people out there who actually want the service. They like to have a multitude of ringtones and caller tunes.

I usually don't look at my bill too closely, since it almost never varies, but I did happen to notice a $9.99 charge from these people and called T-Mobile. They checked and told me that for three months I had been charged. They also told me that it was very likely that a third party company sold my cell phone number to them and they were getting a large number of complaints. T-Mobile was great and refunded the three months charges and blocked them. My phone will not even support ringtone downloads, so there was obviously no legitimate reason to have this "service". Guess "phishing" happens in the cell phone world as well.