Spurious billing on Qtel prepaid card?

Tyrotrainer
By Tyrotrainer

Myself and a colleague bank with Commercial Bank and we have free SMS banking enabled. We have noticed that every time we receive a "free" SMS from CB that our Hala accounts are debited by almost 4 Riyals. In fact most of my last top up (30 Riyals) was depleted without me making a single call.......but I had received a lot of SMS messages from CB when I was setting up my credit cards and some bill payments.

CB say they have no knowledge of this, and that their SMS banking is entirely free.

Qtel are trying to say this is impossible and that my account debits are due to outgoing calls......yet they are unable to tell me how. I have records of my outgoing calls.......my last was to a Qtel mobile for 12 seconds, 2 days ago and my account has dropped 14 Riyals, in the same period I received a number of CB SMSs.

Has anyone else experienced this?

By anonymous• 20 Jul 2009 17:32
anonymous

Oh yes best Time to switch to Vodafone, you can get the same number but wil start with 7.....

By ka78• 20 Jul 2009 17:15
ka78

Yes....time for you to switch over to Vodafone

By anonymous• 20 Jul 2009 17:10
anonymous

congratulation!!!!!

ur sim card is being hacked

now before even thinking change ur sim card

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dont judge the book by its cover.

read the book and if u dont like it throw the book and keep the cover coz u brought the book because of its cover.

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