“Star SMS” or should I say STAR SMS PTY. LTD…..
After a number of emails from the public and phone calls from Star SMS on our mobile phones we have decided to look into this matter of STAR SMS PTY. LTD.
Star SMS have been contacted to comment on their ethics. More to follow in the coming days…
As some of you may have noticed, we sent out an email to previous visitors of the 4wisemonkeys visitors. Our email software made a giant mistake and also sent out a list of the email address of our previous visitors by mistake
We sincerely apologise for this!
Thanks to Andy of BigBuddaBoom, pmcmahon, Dallas of mith.com.au, Ray, Jivlain, all of the guys at Enya and anyone else that has told us about the Australian I.T. story on Missed call marketing.
You can see the story here: http://australianit.news.com.au/arti…^15306,00.html and here: http://australianit.news.com.au/arti…nbv%5e,00.html.
Our forum entry on this can be found here: http://www.4wisemonkeys.com/community/showthread.php?t=154.
Thanks guys!
The 4 Wise Monkeys have been tracking now for way to long is the DC Marketing ‘Ring Once’ and hang up leaving a ‘Missed Call’ notification on your mobile phone hoping that you will be ‘socially engineered’ into returning the call. A full list of the numbers that you may receive these calls from is listed over on the number index page (click here for link). If you return the call which is to a local number you are billed accordingly by your mobile telephony provider at the standard rate. The recorded message you hear if you do call this number will prompt you to dial a 190x-xxx-xxx telephone number that you are then billed at premium rates that are disclosed in the recorded message that you have just heard.
18 TVs might have caused his apartment to catch fire reports a neighbour of the sixth-floor unit at Miami Beach. Fla, and you thought you watched to much TV?
Click Here to read full article.
Recently 4 Wise Monkeys pulled a number of posts after objections from DC Marketing (the blog has enough exposure now that we need to play things safe)… We have reevaluated a number of issues that have been brought to our attention and are in the process of drafting some posts that we will release in the next couple of days (assuming it all flies past the lawyers ok). These posts will outline three differant scams currently in circulation and give everyone a clearer indication of what to do if they are affected (these posts will include more information on the dc marketing scam).
Despite the claims of Ingo Gruber from DC Marketing that this website and the media have not affected his business we have noticed some rather big changes.
First of all, not long after our recent media exposure - DCM Communications changed their contact information (We will be making a new post with current contact information in the coming days whilst we find what we can in the public sector).
The following news posting was made on their sister site (vrpan.com):
Mail Addresses
Due to a spam attack on our mailboxes, all mail addresses on this site to contact us have been changed. Please look T&C for new mail addresses to contact us!
We have also noticed that a number of numbers have been taken out of circulation - That’s not saying that they aren’t still running their unethical operation - That is just saying that they are cutting back (a lot).
And to top it off, Ingo continues to claim we have not affected him AT ALL! All whilst he makes a daily comment on the website (click here to read the latest comments).
Thanks to everyone sending us mail - We appreciate the support and offers for help. We are striving to answer every e-mail but given the sheer volume of them it may take us two or three days to get back! Also, anyone who is informing us about various DC Marketing practices or other unethical businesses / scams should include a link to their webpage (if you have one) which we will add in our posting. Cheers guys!
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