MTN Ghana engaged in fraudulent practices? Shortcode 1818
MTN Ghana seems to have reactivated its ‘fraudulent’ practices on me. What I call broad daylight white-collar pick-pocketing . The last time they ‘brute-forcefully’ signed me unto their short-code 451. This time the ‘culprit’ short-code is 1818. I picked up my phone, unlock the keypad lock and I’m greeted with the ‘text’ message below. It seems to be a grand ‘pick-pocketing’ scheme to get their customers to unwittingly subscribe to useless so-called ‘value-added services’. More like “lemme see if I can trick 2 million subscribers to inadvertently sign up for ‘junk’ information from my shortcode 1818,,, I will make it nearly impossible for them to unsubscribe… because the ‘text’ message (USSD) to which they clicked ‘OK’, most-likely without reading… will be nowhere in their SMS inboxes… ha ha ha. This SMS spam we’ve been bombarding subscribers with is so lucrative….. siphoning 20 pesewas everyday from say 2 million subscribers… I’m laughing all the way to the bank… I just can’t