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My ringtone was a funky chiptune version of O Green World by Gorillaz.

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[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

i bought akon - lonely from a TV ad when i was a young teenager for my polyphonic nokia.

what i didnt realise was it signed me up to a weekly £5 subscription and it racked up over £100 before my dad found out.

Had to abandon that number and get a new sim

[-] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 14 points 9 months ago

Yeah I remember those subscription scams. Real scummy stuff

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I think their only recourse was that there was the asterisk with the subscription verbage in really tiny fine print that was only visible if you had an 80" projector TV

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

i was well below the age at which i could enter into a legally binding contract so there was also that. but we didnt fight it, we just threw the sim away and forgot about it

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Lol I feel ya. My brother did something similar with an SMS catfact-esque subscription in the days where sms wasn't free, our mom was about ready to kill him. Problem was that it billed to the carrier, and so it was like $10/month on top of per message fees, and the carrier didn't bill it until like 6 months later

[-] gerbler@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

The massive block of fine print at the bottom of the screen. Things my preteen self would not take notice of.

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