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CP industry is shocked (of course NOT all the CPs ) of the preventive system being outsourced to one of the CP with such reputation. If CPs are the one who pay the cost of it shouldn't CPs the one who choose the solution provider or a open tender?

Software solution industry is shocked as well when one of their project is being hijacked. (Bad luck , Valuelabs, maybe not this time.)

The so called preventive system are plain BULL SHIT.

Let me give an example.
Imagine a merchant charge your credit card without your consent. So what will bank do?

A. Pay the merchant and charge the customer even the customer file their complain

B. Take it as fraud and freeze the payment

C. Ask the merchant to build an "preventive system", but still charge the customer.

So, did you see the logic here. If you say WTF, then ask yourself about the logic of "build preventive system".

It is FRAUD in the first place. And yet, we don't see the justice is done on those CP!! As long as this merchant SMS and charge the client without their consent, and there IS NO RECORD showing the customer MAKE the request, this CP should be BANNED!!!

Why Bolehland administrative failed to understand such simple logic. There is so called "professor", latuk, Dan Sri
in the body, don't tell me they NEVER learn logic.

You think you are safe once you reported these cowboys to your telco, you think all is well once your telco "blocked" their short-code no.... well guess again!!

Received a message from 39898 today. It reads: "Sorry, you have opted to block SMS to this shortcode from your number". I think this is the masking technique you mentioned earlier. And i'm now $2 poorer..

I took a photo of the SMS but i don't know how to post it here.

@moo_t

Actually, if you are a victim of MO spoofing, there is a record that you have requested for the service. Basically, someone spoofed your mobile number and requested for a particular service.

Unlike credit cards, there are no paper trails to prove otherwise.

all these scam have created millionares! These scammers are even awarded Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of the Year ! search macrokiosk in google and i found this friendster profile. http://www.friendster.com/henrygoh . looks like I am too late to found out about this industry!

Since MO spoofing is possible and there is no way of knowing if the request is really a spoof or real, then users can take this great opportunity to enjoy whatever service available and later call them to claim he never requested the service to waive the fees, right? It's a two way loop-hole. The daylight robbers who took advantage of you, you can as well take advantage of them.

Jeff, after almost a week of almost calling all our three mobile phone operators thievews, crooks, robbers, scammers, spammers and what not, there has been just this deafening silence. No reply to anything you have accused them of. The mainstream media has not reported it. No one has reported any crime to the police either. MCMC has been absolutely silent.

Now going by precedent, one other time when such things were written about "authority", one Irene Fernandez was charged and found guilty as well as sentenced to prison for false reporting. Never mind her appeal has been suspended until at least after she dies so that on her death bed the last that can be written about her is that she stands having been found guilty for false reporting.

I think I have told you often enough...if these things that you say don't get reported by the mainstream newspapers, then they NEVER HAPPENED. That simply means all that you are doing is false reporting!!! I am a faithful BN supporting citizen you see! so we have the final word!

nicklwc,
I wonder how those CP "inject" the request to the Telco site.

Do you mean CP are able to mask our "suppose to be secured" mobile called? Isn't it the SIM card are the only way to make our call UNIQUE? Isn't SMS going through the same process? Please let me how the CP are able to spoof our scrambled mobile code and "FOOLS" the telco.