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User Beware!

I recently started receiving unsolicited text messages to my phone in the form of trivia.

Initially I just ignored them, but was getting quite annoyed so I called my cell phone carrier, Telus Mobility, to find out how to stop them.

Telus told me to text back "stop" which I did and am now apparently unsubscribed, however I also found out I have been charged $2.00 per text message, which seems like an exceptional scam to me.

I asked Telus to let me know who was sending the messages, so that I could complain and it turned out they are coming from Facebook. I have emailed Facebook to complain and am waiting for a response.

I am not sure what triggered these texts as I have signed up for very few apps on FB and would never have agreed to either receiving text messages or paying for them if I had been aware of it.

$40 later I am feeling pretty frustrated, so beware of any apps you sign up for as it seems like there must be something tricksy going on!

I'll post my phone bill on an upcoming blog to show how the charges appear for reference.

Labels: Facebook, scam, text messages

I recently attended a seminar on Facebook and business and learned about an interesting application. For those of you regularly sending photos and information to friends and family this might be of interest.

Sending digital photos is often the norm now, but not everyone is online. This application offers the ability to set up specific rules for each person on your list ie: send photos by email to my sister, send photos by flikr to my friend and mail photos to my grandma. At a click of a button it is completed!

There is a fee for some parts of this service, but for those of you regularly sending photos it might be a time-saving application!

To learn more about it visit www.kinzin.com

Labels: Facebook