Being on #funemployment I have a bit of time on my hands so when the phone bill looked a bit high I looked closer… We showed 2 months of a $9.99 charge at the bottom of the bill under “Monthly Subscriptions”. Just like this video (The content provider listed on my bill was not Textea, but Eye Level/Jawa! The company outlined in the video!!)
I found this video after doing a bit of googling. I goggled the content provider, and the short code listed and very quickly realized we were victims… for 17 months! Had it not double billed this time I would have never seen it! After a call to AT&T we were fully credited. She was actually nice about it, though did not seem surprised. In fact she is going to have someone call us on Monday to answer our questions as to why/ how this happened etc… Yay AT&T!!
One of the nation’s largest phone companies, AT&T, has suspended text “shortcodes” used by Jawa on its network, AT&T spokesperson Marty Richter said. The move temporarily stops Jawa from making money off its premium text messaging services on AT&T.
Richter says AT&T has hired a thirdy party company to investigate Jawa for cyber fraud, and that Jawa is cooperating. He did know how long the investigation would take.
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Made me feel even more better about AT&T, but why did my bill still have the “short code” 5 months later? Hmm.
So I had to go get another iPhone today. This makes my 3rd iPhone 4. Haha. Long story. What happened was the ear speaker stopped working. It was funny because I discovered it yesterday when I tried to call and order Thai food delivery. I did all the stuff you are supposed to, yanno, to trouble shoot it at home. Synced, updated, ect. And nada. So I had to march down to the Apple Store and get it sorted out. They couldn’t fix it. New iPhone. Ugh.
I don’t mind getting a new phone. I DO mind being disconnected from my life as it syncs and crap. I am totally stressed about it. The last few weeks I have LIVED in that phone. I did sync it last night so all my *everything* should pop back up and be fine. BUT IT’S TAKING FOREVER!!!
SO Easter this year was an ... .... Adventure. You see our San Diego Family that we normally do holidays with was out of town, and everyone else kinda has family here. So what to do? An expensive Easter Brunch at the last minute was kinda out. So. Urban Mo’s. Why not, they do a good brunch. A plan was made.
Sunday tho, I waaay over slept so that killed Brunch. It was more like Easter Lunch. SO we get there and it is PACKED. Everyone was obviously having a blast. Also everyone had on those satinLady Gaga/Madonna-ish ears In an array of pastel colors (including black and I think red). OMG I had to have some!!! THEY WERE OUT!! Foiled. We got our table, I had to pee, and by the time I returned Richard had got us each a pair!
So there we all were. The whole place packed. Eating. Drinking. Mingling. Ears on almost every head. They were blasting 80’s music. We were seated and chatting to the nearby people standing. Then I felt it. My chair moved. I looked around. Nothing changed. But my chair was still moving… I looked at Richard, his face registered what was happening. Then finally people noticed. The screaming, shouting, and texting…. (haha not just me). It went on forever. I think officially was only 40 seconds but it seemed like forever. And looking around at the festive setting, with everyone in these oddly opposite-Easter ears while the earth violently shook was absolutely surreal…. I wish I had had the sense to video it. Hello iPhone much? LOL
After a time it finally stopped and we all cheered like at a sporting event, only with more heart. Hugged each other, high fived, took group photos for the bar… Reports were that it was 6.9 The music came to the forefront again and we were all left with the bond of having lived thru such an event. After another round of drinks Richard and I remembered that we had animals and a house to check on and left. By the time we arrived home the quake was upgraded to a 7.2
Anyway. The day degenerated from there as far as I was concerned as we went back out and I got a bit messy. Gross. I spent Monday hung-over. Grosser. As amazing as the quake was I would have preferred to be with my San Diego Family. They were much missed.
SO we get there and it is PACKED. Everyone was obviously having a blast. Also everyone had on those satin
