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Fraudulent Taxation Open Office

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ElementW Posted messages 5690 Status Contributor -
Hello,
Is it normal for OpenOffice to be charged through the number 83020, which bills each SMS at €4.5 to obtain codes that shouldn’t even exist?
Thank you for your reply.

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    Judge_DT Posted messages 27651 Registration date   Status Moderator Last intervention   10 014
     
    Hi,

    OpenOffice is here: https://www.openoffice.org/fr/

    And it's totally free.

    I’m not sure where your request for SMS came from, but you should explain more...

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    1. loy
       
      Hello
      On Wednesday, when I wanted to run "Open Office," the site asked me for a validation code that I could obtain by sending a "DM" to 83020. Once I received the code, it indicated that the price was €4.5 per SMS.
      I think the scammer moves from site to site and does not stay in one place for very long.

      Best regards
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      1. ElementW Posted messages 5690 Status Contributor 1 293 > loy
         
        The "fraudster" may be "wandering" from software to software, offering different ones over time, except that:
        1. this so-called "fraudster" is actually a company that pays for Google ads (or other search engines) to appear at the top of the results
        2. although morally unacceptable, selling OpenOffice is perfectly legal; the LGPL license does not prohibit the commercialization of the concerned free software
        3. it is not fraud because the service provided to you, namely downloading OpenOffice, is rendered if you pay. Generally, this goes hand in hand with a subscription to a useless weekly/monthly service via SMS to which you clearly subscribe because you have (obviously, as a good consumer) read the fine print of the contract you are entering, which is marked (at the bottom) on the page.
        In short, it's despicable but completely legal.

        By the way, OpenOffice is essentially no longer maintained (last update in 2011), switch to LibreOffice (which started from OpenOffice and is still being developed).
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