From Hardwarezone forums: NNB!!!
Last week, my friend's son tried to download a ringtone from
Funmobile,
who regularly advertised in the New Paper. These
advertisements
tend to highlight their so called "cheap prices"in big bold
letters, but at the
bottom of the ad will state that "users agree to become members" By
that it
means that the user agree to pay $4.99 membership fee per
week.
Needless to say, many children will download without reading the
fine print
and end up paying the membership fee. My friend's son was unlucky
enough
to send the wrong sms to discontinue the service and have to keep
paying
$4.99 a few times until the service was terminated properly.
There seems to be a trend towards making profits these days by
capitalising
on the ignorance and vulnerability of people. Not so long ago we
read about
old folks being cajoled to sign up to buy unit trusts by bank
employees.
The businessman in the street is certainly getting more creative
these days
in making money but certainly not the authorities who are unable to
nap them
because they have not "broken any laws."
