{"id":193,"date":"2012-11-29T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T08:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pegu.in\/?p=193"},"modified":"2012-11-29T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T08:03:00","slug":"the-silent-telecom-scam-how-airtel-tries-to-steal-money-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/2012\/11\/29\/the-silent-telecom-scam-how-airtel-tries-to-steal-money-from-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silent Telecom Scam: How Airtel tries to steal money from me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an SMS from Airtel, thanking me for choosing their AUDIO TALKIES! Also, they promptly deducted Rs.1 from my balance! Wow! what a service! Only problem is, I never heard of such service AUDIO TALKIES, and I never subscribed to it! <\/p>\n<p>So, I promptly tweeted to Airtel_Presence as well as updated in my Facebook. Also, I sent an email to Airtel Customer Care email ID as well as its nodal officer of Delhi\/NCR. I am still waiting for their response.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-194\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pegu.in\/blogging\/the-silent-telecom-scam-how-airtel-tries-to-steal-money-from-me\/attachment\/airtel-scam\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-194\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pegu.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/airtel-scam.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"airtel-scam\" width=\"552\" height=\"756\" class=\"size-full wp-image-194\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How Airtel tries to steal money from me!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p>My Facebook post received many comments quickly from my friends. One person informed me that its Telecom Companies trick to increase their bottom-line by activating these kind services and then deducting money from its subscribers.  <\/p>\n<p>Well, it is not first time that Airtel tried to steal money from me. It tried twice before. Once it tried to steal Rs. 1 from me and I got it back. Next time it tried to steal Rs. 10 from me saying I downloaded some video using GPRS while I was using Nokia 1100 mobile phone! <\/p>\n<p>With such experiences, I think, Airtel is committing a silent robbery by activating VAS ( value added service) unauthorized and deducting mobile balances. And they refund it if some one complaints, else they think, they are successful in stealing the money. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I got an SMS from Airtel, thanking me for choosing their AUDIO TALKIES! Also, they promptly deducted Rs.1 from my balance! Wow! what a service! Only problem is, I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegu.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}