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Phone no. 57457?

  • 18-08-2010 7:36pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 942 ✭✭✭


    I just got a text message from the number 57457 saying my pincode is xxxx and that I can enter it on the website in order to confirm. It also says subscription output: stop to 57457 2euro/msg, max 6 msgs/week

    Does anyone have a clue what this is about? I haven't entered a competition or anything.

    Also is there anyway I can find out who sent the message, looks dodgy to me and I dont want to be paying out for a scam


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I just got a text message from the number 57457 saying my pincode is xxxx and that I can enter it on the website in order to confirm. It also says subscription output: stop to 57457 2euro/msg, max 6 msgs/week

    Does anyone have a clue what this is about? I haven't entered a competition or anything.

    Also is there anyway I can find out who sent the message, looks dodgy to me and I dont want to be paying out for a scam

    Don't reply they might take credit off you that way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,159 ✭✭✭daz801


    I'd say its from a website advertisement, one of your mates mite have entered you as a joke or someone took a shot in the dark and entered a random number


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    xxxx looks very sexy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭iii Stevo iii


    Don't reply they might take credit off you that way.

    Or he may already be registered and they will take money off him every x number of days until he unsubscribes.

    Op ring REGTEL (1890 229668) and let them know the phone number, seems like you've been registered to a premium rate service. It happened to me when my phone went on WAP in my pocket. Took 40euro off me before I realized but I got refunded all the money once regtel got involved.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    pass 696969 ultra hot grannys


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,919 ✭✭✭✭Gummy Panda


    Or he may already be registered and they will take money off him every x number of days until he unsubscribes.

    Op ring REGTEL (1890 229668) and let them know the phone number, seems like you've been registered to a premium rate service. It happened to me when my phone went on WAP in my pocket. Took 40euro off me before I realized but I got refunded all the money once regtel got involved.

    RegTel is gone. Its Comreg which deal with these now. Now sure if they took over that hotline number.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37 Curry chip


    It was me :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    LOL I think I can actually explain that. I did a stupid IQ test thing on this website a few minutes ago. I knew it was an ad but did it anyway for the craic. At the end it asked me for my mobile number so I entered a random 087 number (I think it was) and it said it sent a pin.

    If you check here: http://www.comreg.ie/numbering/sms_search.598.sms.html

    you'll see that 57457 and the number mentioned on that page 57582 are both owned by NetSize UK Ltd. So it was most likely me :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    haha what a dickhead:pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,104 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Probably a direct line to a Nigerian minister looking to give you a few million if you let some money rest in your bank account.
    Send him your bank details & thank me later.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Seems legit.

    Go for it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,345 ✭✭✭Dunjohn


    Do it! I wanna know Sam Vimes' IQ!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    Dunjohn wrote: »
    Do it! I wanna know Sam Vimes' IQ!

    The number he received wasn't a pin, it was my IQ ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    unsubscribe!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    unsubscribe!

    I don't think he is subscribed, I think I'd have had to enter the pin to confirm it.

    But just in case Bodhidharma you can text STOP to 57582 if you want. It'll cost the price of a standard text


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    Text STOP 57457


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,579 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Sam Vimes wrote: »
    The number he received wasn't a pin, it was my IQ ;)

    .001?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭jd007


    Text the number back with your bank account details


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Could be that you were in fact hypnotised as a child and this code is what triggers you to become a cold blooded assassin and take out a head of state.

    If I am right, you should receive another text with five days.

    I'd buy some tinfoil if I were you, wearing a hat fashioned from this is as you sleep, is the only way I know of that reverses any brainwashing you may have received via hypnosis.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,110 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,959 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    daz801 wrote: »
    I'd say its from a website advertisement, one of your mates mite have entered you as a joke or someone took a shot in the dark and entered a random number

    ^ ^ This


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