Do NOT respond to SMS from 70542!!

ComplaintsUnsolicited Phone Callssecureiqtest.com

Complaint

0
Ronin
Country: United States
8664041181 - If you get a TXT message from 70542, with this in it:

"This user sent you a message with the following subject line:
["regarding your ad"] Please text MESSAGE to 70542 to receive the full message."

Do NOT respond! It belongs to secureiqtest.com, who will IMMEDIATELY start charging your Cell Phone Bill $9.95 Per Month, even if you all you send is a STOP message back to them!!

They are a SCAM company!

Here's their info:

ToC – secureiqtest.com - Summary terms: This is a premium service available to users over 18. You will receive 20 health alerts and tips per month for $9.99/mo ($6.99/mo on Boost, Cricket and US Cellular). These alerts and tips will enable you to live a healthier life and therefore a longer life!  Standard messaging charges apply. (Charges will appear on your wireless bill, or be deducted from your prepaid balance until opt-out),  received on AT&T, Cellular One, Cellular South, Cincinnati Bell, Nextel, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Virgin Mobile, Bluegrass, Centennial Wireless, ECIT, EKN, Immix, Inland Cellular, Illinois Valley Cellular, Revol, West Central Wireless  networks, Boost, Cricket and US Cellular. Standard message charges apply. All purchases must be authorized by the account holder. You may stop the service at any time by following the instructions below.
To stop messages at any time, text STOP to 70542.
For help at any time, text HELP to 70542
Customer service can be reached at secureiqtest@cs365.com or (866) 404-1181.

Comments

12Next
  • 0
    tj
    File a complaint with FTC for deceptive telemarketing, illegal autodialed advertising to a cell phone, and fraudulent "negative option" telemarketing.
  • 0
    tj
    Charging consumers without their authorization is fraudulent.

    Charging consumers without disclosing the terms of your offer is fraudulent.

    Automatically sending advertising messages to cell phones is illegal under TCPA.

    FTC TSR for "negative-option" telemarketing with "pre-acquired account information" places specific requirements on the telemarketer to make sure that the authorization is "verifiable" to be valid, and defines "verifiable authorization".  Lacking the required "verifiable authorization", any claimed authorization is invalid, and any resulting charges are unauthorized and fraudulent.
  • 0
    janice jones
    i janice jones did not give consent to this secureiqtest@.cs365.com. i was looking for a job as a medical assistant and this was a part of a medical job site. next thing  i got a test message off my phone stating 9.95 will added to my cell bil. i dontwant no  20 health messages for 9.95 monthly.
  • 0
    Investigator
    Message to Janice Jones!  What was the medical job website that scammed you?  I want to investigate this - thanks
  • 0
    hopeidonotfindyou
    Today I got a txt message on my cell-phone from "athedo@hotmail.com", an email address I have never seen before. The message read: "send the txt message LISA4 to the number 70542 to help vote me as the hottest iphone girl." As you can see it's a ploy to get me to signup without any knowledge of the service, which is obviously very illegal...

    I sent a txt back to athedo@hotmail.com, my reply read: "I do not know you, do not ever txt me again. You were warned." They did not reply back.

    here are a few things that are especially annoying about this...

    1) I DID NOT signup or use any service from this company. EVER!
    2) I NEVER give my phone number when I sign up on web forms. I am an adult and certainly no fool, I have been using the internet since before google and yahoo were around...
    3) I am very sure no one I know would sign me up as a joke, and besides very few people even know my number, perhaps as few as 10 people have this number. (i'm paranoid hehe)
    4) I am on the government's do-not-call list, perhaps this is an attempt to get around that?

    Sooo the question is WHO sent me this txt message... Is this an email/txt sent by the company itself or a random trouble maker? Regardless, I WILL find the persons responsible for this.
  • 0
    tony in ohio
    I logged onto yahoo messenger and had a similar message to that text short code. Im glad i came here.
  • 0
    Sean
    I recieved an email with a photo attached.  Text on the photo read, "If you like this picture Text Lollipop to 70542 to vote!"  The sender of the email was Cofer Rabassa <cofer5drabassalsz@hotmail.com>.
  • 0
    Sue
    These people scammed my son after a Facebook quiz he took.  It told him to text 70542 to get the results, and when he did he received a random text that had nothing to do with the quiz.  They texted him a couple times and he finally answered back, telling them he didn't know who they were and to stop texting or he would call the police.  They didn't text him again, but we just got our bill and they put a $9.99 charge on it.  I contacted my provider and they removed it for me & blocked all 3rd party contact, but I'm definitely reporting this company.
  • 0
    Andy
    I've been receiving  messages over Aol Instant Messenger (AIM) from a friend I haven't talked to in years, stating I should take this facebook IQ test. It's a tinyurl.com link that resolves to secureiqtest.com.
    They come pretty regularly, and always with the same pregenerated message. She hasn't responded back to my messages or really been online at all that I can see, leading me to believe it's a virus infection using her account to spam the message out.
  • 0
    Andy
    Quick update: It was a virus infection. Her account got stolen and used to spam the link. Spammers took the time to reset her password and hinder her attempt to get her account back.
  • 0
    cheapassgamer
    Do you know what the virus is called? A friend of mine is experiencing the same issue but a full system scan with AVG Free and malwarebytes turned up nothing.

    It could be that the virus isn't even on her own computer but someone else's she might have logged into aim with. Just curious if you could provide any further insight.

    Thanks.
  • 0
    jonathan
    hello im so annoyed right now because i got a msg from 70542 and 13155031325.
    they gave a pin number,but i dont remember signing up on any website.
    I thought someone used my number or something like that.
    i dont know if im gonna respond or not.Also there is another number i received.Its 13155031325 they said on their txt was"thanks for signing up with VoteMeHot! to cancel your 49.99/month subscription pls. reply to this txt with the 4 digit pin number provide in the previous text along with the word"REMOVE"
    i dont know what to do right now..
    Do i get charge when i received this txt?
  • 0
    jessy
    File a complaint with FTC for deceptive telemarketing, illegal autodialed advertising to a cell phone, and fraudulent "negative option" telemarketing.
  • 0
    Rose
    I've been getting the same annoying IM from a friend's account. I did click on the link, like an idiot, but did not submit any information. Did you ever find out how to get this from popping up? If so, could you share what you did and did you report it?
  • 0
    happyJonathan
    hey people if you receive a msg from 70542 and 13155031325 dont respond...even call

    because it will activated your account and start receiving a msg from that network.
    When a got a msg last Nov 4.I went to AT&t store to ask about this annoying msg.
    I talked to a customer representative.They check my account if i got any subscription or got charge.
    They dont finf anything.SO it was FAKE and SCAM.
    I tried to report it but i dont know how..
  • 0
    Del
    how Do I unsuscribe
  • 0
    Daisy
    If you find out how to unsubsribe please contact me at daisy.dukes86@yahoo.com because i am having the same problem
  • 0
    YouTuber
    For those of you doing research...some dude has an account on youtube where he asks all kinds of vote for this or vote for that via text message on youtube...the guy is ruthless.

    http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=bl4zedz#p/u/0/QLBlBGt1PiU
  • 0
    Investigator
    Hi everyone - I wanna know more about this scam from 70542.  But I can tell you somat else also.  The scam aint done by the guys who run 70542 service! That is a clean service.  The scam is the msg bout being charged $49.99 and that msg dont come vrom 70542.  Anyone get the msg bout $49.99?  What was the number it was sent from?
  • 0
    Punky
    I just got a message from 70542 about a pin number and canceling by texting STOP, and then a second text form 714 248 6507  saying "Thanks for signing up0 with VoteMeHot!  To cancel your $49.99/month subscription please reply to this text with the 4 digit PIN Number provided in the previous text along with the word 'REMOVE'"  Who are these people?  I didn't sign up for that!
12Next

Post a new comment