Help Phone credit theft

[roamjo]

Hello I'm new here and looking for some help as getting desperate! My HTC Desire is on Orange pay as you go. 'Someone' somewhere is taking credit off me, they take

 

[alpha0990]

What is ABT? Are you in England? I hate orange, your credit disappears in no time.

 

[Harry2]

Have close look at your (spam) emails.
You meight checked (unoticed) a premium subscription on a web site.

Harry

 

[SUroot]

Yeah one of those games may have associated itself to your number or it sounds like one of those sms things where you sign up.

If you cannot find the source, probably changing your number unfortunately may be the only way

 

[roamjo]

Hiya I dunno who ABT are and Orange couldn't tell me either!

 

[JonnyDroid]

I vaguely recall reading something, some time ago, that makes me think ABT was just an acronym for an automated payment system (Account Balance Transfer - or something similar).
If this is true in your case, then, as has already been suggested, your charges are probably down to some kind of repeat subscription & the reference to ABT may be the method of payment & not the payee.
Either way, as SUroot says, if your network provider can't help you to stop the payments, then a change of number would be the best option - being on PAYG it should be easy enough to pick up a free SIM.

 

[mpw]

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[Harry2]

As I said in my post above, have a close look at your (spam) emails.
The company behind this ABT should have mailed a confirmation of this premium subscription to you. The email might filtered with the spam filter of your email server.

Having the address of this company might be better for fighting back.
First thing should be canceling the subscription.

Harry