and they are proving to be an abusive company in a second way in addition to the basic sliminess of the “product” they shill. Joi Ito recently signed up for the incredibly abusive SMS.ac “service” – which immediately started spamming his contacts to try and get them to sign up as well. He tried to stop it, and in doing so realized what had happened – they took advantage of his expectations of legit sign-up forms and abused that trust. Since he’s a blogger, he wrote about the whole experience. Today Joi received a ridiculous cease and desist notice from SMS.ac’s lawyer, Kevin B Jones. So not only is the so-called service – which is really nothing more than a scam – abusive, but they’re busy trying to silence people who write about their experiences. Amazing.
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Markus says
For those riddled with SMS.ac, here’s a page (1) detailing how you get opted in for premium services without your knowledge, and (2) telling how to cancel services and deactivate your account.
http://www.codewallah.com/scam/smsac/
nick says
I worked at this company.. there was so much illegal stuff going on there – including ALL of the employees working for free to be called ‘founders.
But every morning 3 employees were assigned to send out messages to 24 user groups.. these are groups for people that are intersted in similiar things.. anyways, the SMS.AC employees(and yes I even did it once) send out fake messages to users and the users are charged for them. SMS encouraged us employees to send out ‘controversial messages’ to try and get people responding.. each response charged every user of the group.. so 100 users x 3 cents each = 3 dollars per message.. but multiply this by a lot more and you can see what they are doing.
If anyone is putting together a civil suit I will testify under oath all of these facts.