In recent months, my friends and relatives are telling me that their prepaid mobile balance are gone every night. Firstly I though they don’t know about the services, or they may activated some value added services like Caller Tunes accidentally. But they strongly refused that they never activated any services.

Later, I realized that it is the problem with the service provider, and they are cheating users by using their non-awareness and innocent.

Here is the sample one in Vodafone, whenever I disconnect a call, I will get service message like “Play unlimited Trisha quiz everyday for just Rs.7 per day” or “What’s the name of female peacock? (Rs3)” with the 2 options and you must select one from OK or Cancel. OK is in the left side, so mostly many mobile user will press OK (or left side button) to close any service messages like Balance info after each call.

Ok now, if you pressed OK the service will activated for your number and everyday midnight they will charge you the daily rental. It’s not the only one, there are 10s I received Today after every call.

And another one example is, they will activate a service without your confirmation by just sending a SMS, like “We have activated caller tunes for your number for free for 7 days, after 7 days Rs.30 per month. To deactivate dial xxxx”. But the support number for deactivation is also chargeable in Minutes, that may be Rs.3 per minute, and it will take few minutes to complete the process.

These type of issues are in most of the Indian mobile service providers. So lookout the message before press OK.