SMS.ac behind the scenes

[ShawnZ]

Internet Media Company SMS.ac says it offers free SMS messaging...however, upon investigation from several other websites, we have learned that nothing on SMS.ac is free. You see, SMS.ac is currently defrauding customers and operating in a criminalistic way. Michael Pousti is the owner of SMS.ac

You see, when you send an SMS via SMS.ac, the receipient must pay $0.55. Also, SMS.ac will send you 3 advertisements every 3 days, costing you $1.00 an Advertisement. Thats $3.00 every 3 days.

Think SMS.ac is a clean company still? Think again. Court Documents dating back to June 29th, 1990 have been discovered that accuse SMS.ac's founder of commiting fraud. National Scholastic Resources is the company that Michael Pousti was operating to defraud users at the time.

Michael Pousti also uses the name Michael Reller to commit his fraud. He works with a parner, Ramin Niakiani, or at least he did on his previous account.

We have learned that SMS.ac has the habit of making false database changes in order to bill users multiple times. Under rare circumstances (i.e. a good enough threat from a customer) a customer is refunded.

SMS.ac is currently being operated by Michael Pousti, Brandie Williams and Greg Wilfahrt. SMS.ac has been known to use frivilous lawsuits against sites like our own and others claiming that they reveal trade secrets.

The management of SMS.ac is:

Michael Pousti

E.G. Brower

Greg Wilfahrt

Amanda Schaffer

Brandie Williams

Chris McKibbin

Brianne Pedersen

Ken Smith

Todd Sabo

Dennis Shresta

David Vandertie

Tim Carter

Dave Hanson

"Amy", an alias we used to protect her identity, states:

"I used to work at sms.ac Chris, and all the crap sms pulls is true and you know it. You run the "seeding" department and you know that each person in your department is required to send 1000 fake messages a day because the amount of messages that actual members send is next to nothing. Anyone who wants to get out of the scam send STOP to 188 1051.

And Chris I will be more than happy to publish my full name and email address if you give me your word that sms.ac will not file suit against me. But you won't do that will you? Because you will sue us, we all signed non disclosure agreements and now we are divulging company secrets. So you force us all to speak out anonymously." on one of our sources websites responding to a comment posted by "Chris".

An SMS.ac Employee responded to some complaints by saying "There has been some mention about "seeding" and how sms.ac is using employees using ghost accounts to spam club messages to premiere accounts. This was indeed done FOUR YEARS ago when the clubs first were offered as to increase interest and site activity. It has not been done since then".

Source: http://www.msghelp.net/showthread.php?tid=45607

[WesleyT]

and you didnt even say anything about an sms of me ending up on the ugliest woman i ever saw and i didnt send it to her :ninja:

[Colin-uk Veteran]

i used to use them, but then i stopped when they "automatically" billed for ?5 or so... *shrugs*

[Jase]

Sms.ac allways sucked when i first saw it i was like what a piece of crap... its the most bull**** service you can ever get Go to hell SMS.ac (N)

[El Bourricot]

I subscribed for an account then discovered about the small print "we'll bill you ?** a month"... and unsubscribed. I still get 2 invites a day from other dumb people who have an account. I just hope they'll one day realise, but if you're on pay-as-you-go, topping up whenever you're out of credit, you're unlikely to realise that your balance is ?5 down..:|:|

That's one website I'd like to see hackers take dow:p:p

[ShawnZ]

I subscribed for an account then discovered about the small print "we'll bill you ?** a month"... and unsubscribed. I still get 2 invites a day from other dumb people who have an account. I just hope they'll one day realise, but if you're on pay-as-you-go, topping up whenever you're out of credit, you're unlikely to realise that your balance is ?5 down..:|:|

That's one website I'd like to see hackers take dow:p:p

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DRDoS:o:o

[Rob Veteran]

Same here - I used to use them but realised how bad they were. Even if they have cleaned up their act now, it's still all too easy to end up paying for things you didn't want to.

[rusonjitsu]

SMS.ac

anagram for ScaMS... seriously, cant just be a coincidence!

i wouldnt touch them..

although I have received SO MANY 'invites'

:no: leave them well alone!

RJ