After viewing my Verizon Wireless bill I noticed an additional $65.34 charges for Premium Texting, and being that I pay for their unlimited texting plan this surprised and irritated me. I called Verizon to find out what this Premium Texting from 542542 was and why I had 66 charges at 99cents each on my bill. She informed me it was from some site kgb.com and they are a site where you can text 542542 to them and ask them random and stupid questions and they charge 99cents each time!!! They advertise apparently as I saw after they "charge NO monthly fee for their service" but I did not hear anything about 99cents either. Being that this cell phone is for my 14 yr old daughter, she was unaware of such charges while texting and it doesn't warn you when texting from your phone that you're being charged such enormous fees! This is taking advantage of all those teenagers or kids especially who live off texting and is very deceiving and in my opinion, very fraudulent. Verizon will not refund my account and gave me the number for kgb.com 888-566-9542 which when I tried to call them I only get an automated message stating "they cannot take my call at this time, please leave my name, number, etc"... I went to their website and emailed them demanding a refund to my Verizon account and although they say they'll reply to my message within 12 hours, I've now been waiting 4 days and counting... And when scrolling way down to the itty bitty bottom of their webpage I finally saw in ridiculously tiny writing about the 99cents per text... Unfortunately my daughter didn't get such a warning from her text messaging on her cell phone and I WANT A REFUND, THIS IS FRAUD!!
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