The bright, cheerful bundle of love and joy that is my daughter Maeve surprised me this evening. Some evenings I let my daughter watch videos on my HTC Desire smart-phone and this evening was one of those days. You can imagine my surprise that when I started the usual “time for you to go to bed Maeve” routine to notice on the phone when I retrieved it that I had a text-message. Getting a text message is not that unusual but to get one that said:

Info FreeMsg: You are subscribed to Cuddly TV. Cost EUR 4.50 every 5 days. Over 18 only. Helpline W2M 012467606. To unsubscribe text STOP to 57756

Well I was surprised – and yes internally I did a fairly bit of cursing – at this. Well yes I did text stop and yes I will phone the number given – but the only explanation is Maeve accidently subscribed me to this “service”. I do remember about half an hour earlier Maeve gave me the phone when she had exited the video player. Now I think she must have pressed one of the “free” adds within the video player and kicked all this off.

Anyway I got another text message from the service stating:

+44541881914: you subscription has been terminated. You will not be billed for this service anymore. Thank you for using this service. Help? 012467606

I hope thats the end of this – after checking my phone account so far this incident has cost me 3.72.

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