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At first, it looked pretty great
The a couple days go by and I suddenly get a notification from my bank that they have taken £49 from my bank for a subscription that was in TINY print
I am still disputing it with my bank

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Scam Warning
You won't be scammed the first time, but after the third or fourth time. I wanted to top up my account with 10 euros. The amount was deducted from my bank account, but my account wasn't credited. The transaction didn't appear in Recent Top Ups.

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Con artists, fraudulent payment taking
I bought a £10 top up for my elderly mums phone on Saturday, i noticed yesterday that they were trying to take £49 from my bank, i looked into this & found they had set up a subsctiption without my knowledge & the subcription was hidden behind the check out process, i cancelled the subscription & told them i want a refund, they offered 20% i sm contacting the bank to have this pending payment blocked & will be reporting to the financial ombusdman for subcription traps & fraudulent activity regarding payment taking without authority

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They are operating a con where you buy some credit (which you never receive obviously) and then you are signed up to a payment debit of £49 GBP. Luckily I saw it pending on my banking app and the bank are now blocking the company. What I want to know is how on earth is this company allowed to trade, as it is inside the EU and surely subject to EU laws.

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I paid for a £10 top up, All worked fine. Only to find out 3 days later i was charged £39.00 for a subscription i never signed up for.
If i signed up for a subscription service they need to issue you a payment schedule via email. So you know what you pay and when you pay it. They did not issue that to me. They did however show my an image of a email that they said was sent to me that was a fake image.
When i made a complaint to them they offered me 30% refund as a gesture of goodwill. I told them "on their bike" refund or i contact my bank. The next step they offered 50% and that the maximum they would refund. Told them i would not accept it and that i have given them ample information showing they never fulfilled any of the guidelines that they need to follow as a reputable company.
Joke was on them, i got in touch with my Bank and contacted the fraud department (as a payment was taken without any consent) They took down all the info and i issued them all the images i sent over to this FRAUD of company. Within the next 48hrs i was issued a full refund from my bank.
I suggest anyone on this site to get in touch with their banks fraud department.

Reply from Prepaid Mobile Recharge
Beware when making a basic top-up on this site. I attempted a single £5.00 mobile top-up, only to find an unexpected £49.00 subscription charge taken from my card days later under the descriptor "prepaidmobilerecharge".
The recurring fee was hidden behind unclear checkout terms. When I complained, their compliance support initially rejected the complaint then after a significant number of chasers, offered partial "goodwill" refunds (first 20%, then 50%) to try to settle the dispute. Do not accept partial refunds.
Once I formally issued a deadlock notice and escalated the matter to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) against my bank for refusing a chargeback, the merchant issued a 100% full refund.
If you were caught in this trap:
Reject all partial refund offers from support.
Demand a 100% refund in writing.
If they refuse, file a chargeback under Merchant Misrepresentation via your card issuer or escalate directly to the Financial Ombudsman

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I bought a one-off top up from them for my business POS as the wifi was down.
Somewhere, buried in the small print, was an agreement to pay them a monthly subscription fee of £29.
I only became aware of this when my bank flagged it up as suspicious activity and blocked my card.
Ok, strictly speaking, it's not illegal and I should have read the conditions properly.
However, it's underhand practice and a morally bankrupt way to run a business.

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Do not touch this with a ten-foot barge pole. Read this before you enter your card details.
I went to make a £10 mobile top-up. £49 was taken from my account. What I had actually been signed up to — without ever knowingly agreeing to it — was a 'Premium Membership' at £49 PER MONTH, on a 3-day free trial that rolls straight into a full charge. It is not a one-off. It recurs every single month until you find the cancellation page.
By their own admission on their website, they are not a telecom provider and are not affiliated with any mobile operator. You are not buying a top-up. You are buying a monthly 'membership' from a company registered in Nicosia, Cyprus, that promises to reimburse mobile expenses if you send in receipts.
What makes this so effective is the design of the checkout. A person looking for a £10 top-up is not looking for a £588-a-year subscription, and the pricing is not put in front of them in a way anyone could miss. Under the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 — in force since April 2025 — 'drip pricing' is prohibited: showing a headline figure and then adding unavoidable charges as the customer moves through the transaction. Misleading omissions about the total price are prohibited too. Under regulation 40 of the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, extra payments on top of the agreed price require the customer's express consent obtained beforehand, and consent inferred from a default option or pre-ticked box does not count — the trader has to reimburse it.
If this has already happened to you, act today:
• Cancel in writing by email and keep the proof. Do not rely on a confirmation screen.
• Tell your bank you are cancelling the CONTINUOUS PAYMENT AUTHORITY. They must stop future payments and cannot make you deal with the merchant first.
• Ask your bank about a refund under regulation 79 of the Payment Services Regulations 2017 — where the amount taken exceeded what you could reasonably have expected. Eight-week deadline.
• Raise a chargeback.
• Report it to Trading Standards via Citizens Advice on 0808 223 1133, and to the CMA.
Check your statements. If they got £49 once, they will try again next month.
(I'm not a lawyer — this is my own experience and my own reading of the rules.)

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