Unexpected Account Deduction After Receiving Call From Unlisted Number on Era Network

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Hello! Today the phone rang. An unlisted number was calling. I'm in the habit of not answering such numbers but today I picked up exceptionally because I was waiting for a call. In the handset I hear an automatic machine: Congratulations, you won a guaranteed prize in the competition.... I...

subaru555 · Answer

Well, go to the salon and let me show you the billing of calls. But according to logic, it must be some foreign one because roaming eats money from both accounts and the caller and what he receives.

karolark · Answer

In the case of roaming, it eats from the receiving account when logged in to a foreign network

whime · Answer

Haha, first time I've heard of such a thing But to immediately eat 3 tenners after a moment of conversation? Weird...

edekk · Answer

I had the same thing on 10/12/2010 and now to be sure I checked the detailed billing and nothing deducted me. I have a subscription.

piatas5 · Answer

Thanks for advice. I could go to the Era salon but I'm wondering if it makes sense? At most I will confirm that someone called, and I will not get my money back ;/
It's just better not to answer unknown numbers next time. Soon it won't be possible to pick up anything at all because you will have to pay... some kind of paranoia. Regards!

MARCIN.SLASK · Answer

They call me on average once a week from restricted with such a text, but I haven't noticed that they take my money.
Maybe you listened to the info to the end and sent a paid SMS? There are those that cost 25 + VAT.

For the experts, I will ask why Bank BPH sends an SMS without a number but writes BANK BPH?
Is it possible, for example, to do something with the operator that when I send an SMS to someone, it will be a text and not my number?

piter1980 · Answer

And you didn't press the keyboard by accident during a conversation? There were such cases, by pressing a key you accept something and boom, there is no money

piatas5 · Answer

I did some research on this and it turned out that they called me from a competition called the "golden quiz". Then they sent a text message from the number 7421. Apparently, if we do not pick up this reserved number, the machine records our answering machine. And I've had a dozen of them. Now I check if sometimes my sister spent too long on the Internet (WAP or GPRS), because I don't want to believe that all the money was absorbed ;/

to Peter:
I have a touchscreen phone and there is no way I can press any numbers. All I did was click the red receiver after 10 seconds.

piter1980 · Answer

It could actually charge a lot of money for the Internet, and I know from experience that they download with a delay. If I didn't have Max's blueconnect, it was probably 61 gr gross for 100kb

piatas5 · Answer

APPROX. So the matter cleared up

Well, the fault is mine. I always connect via Wi-Fi to the internet on my phone. But I also have a GPRS connection added just in case (to check the schedule at school or something). And unfortunately, it works so that if there is any interruption in Wi-Fi, the phone automatically dials the second connection (in my case, expensive GPRS). I checked the connection log and noticed 10 GPRS connections there. On average, 6MB of data transfer from each ... ;/
And PLN 30 went ... I don't even have a reason to go to the salon

Thanks for the advice and best regards.

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