This kind of scam been happening since a decade ago but MCMC and telco dont want to solve the problem but still continue allowing them to do it …

These scammers merely using software to fake our numbers to subscribe to the service.

To be honest who will still use shortcode to subscribe content anymore in 21st century. Telco and MCMC merely opening loop hole for scams to exist by allowing charging via shortcode.

I think if we dont complain in a way telco also earn some $$ from those scammers thats why keep quiet….

This post has been edited by p4n6: May 7 2022, 12:38 PM

Why cant telco make it mandatory opt in for all these sms content charges? or kill it once and for all …

I believe 10/10 of these are illegitimate charges as no biz will be so outdated to use this form of sms way of charging service anymore … this is used during the 90s before smartphone goes mainstream

Esp this macrokiosk, highly suspicious …

RM0.30 not much but spammer will spam millions of num at once. So they will randomize and circulate the number every month to not to raise suspicion.

Need to report to telco to ban that provider.

Some of these shortcodes come from 1 provider e.g. macrokiosk, and they basically no governance allow anyone to subscribe to it with no question asks. Alot of scammers/spammers just use their service. Telco also dun want to care cause they are beneficiary as well.

So, telco earns money (provide network svc), provider like macrokiosk earns money (provide platform svc), scam/spammers win the most money … loser = end users.