Keep up, keep up!
This is old news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17048251
PhonepayPlus said R&D Media Europe (R&D) and Unavalley BV (Unavalley) misled consumers into entering the competitions through the practice of typosquatting and that those consumers were then charged for receiving text messages in connection with the competitions being run. PhonepayPlus found the companies had breached its Code …
Please follow these simple rules;
1) Don't ever enter or click in anything that says you've won a prize. You haven't.
2) Don't type addresses into the address bar. Type into a google search* and then create a bookmark/shortcut icon/whatever for the site you want, and use that from then on.
3) Be careful of where you enter any form of personal data, you may want to visit a site to register for something, but be 100% sure the site is genuine before registering.
*Other brands of search engine are available.
"2) Don't type addresses into the address bar. Type into a google search* and then create a bookmark/shortcut icon/whatever for the site you want, and use that from then on."
Because search engines NEVER get it wrong or have dodgy results or sponsored links do they. </ObviousSarcasm>
Better advice -> triple check your spelling then save a bookmark;
... because there are perfectly legitimate businesses who make it clear up front that if you sign up to their services you'll be charged for texts and will stop when requested.
Why should those businesses be affected by an overly broad and draconinan piece of "big boot" legislation?
If your stupid enough not to check the address you have entered, and even more stupid enough to provide your contact details to all and sundry, then you deserve to be ripped off.
Only YOU are responsible for your own safety/wellbeing.
Being ripped will certainly educate web users!
Absolutely. Dim people must be punished for not being as smart as us. That'll teach them! Being stupid means you are not deserving of any protection from criminal behaviour.
We should be facilitating this, not stopping it. Let's get a directory of everyone not too smart, or a bit slow, or old, or mentally confused, and publish it online so that rip-off merchants know exactly who deserves to have their money taken off them. This would punish dumb people and reward smart people with no morals. Exactly the kind of people we need more of and the kind of society *I* want to live in!.
And once we've done with the stupid, we can start on the blind. Make them take some personal responsibility for not reading what's there, plain as day, in jpeg images. Deserve eveything they get, they do. And slow people. If you can't run from the man-eating tigers like normal people then you deserve a mawling.