Summary of Terms
Welcome to the Official Mobile IQ Quiz! After completing the mobile quiz, we will calculate your score and ask you to enter your cell phone number to gain access to your IQ results as well as a mobile content subscription. Depending on your carrier and cell phone manufacturer, the mobile content may include ringtones, games, wallpapers, or fun text messages. This content will cost as much as $19.99 per month and will be sent to your cell. If you would not like to sign up for the subscription content to your phone to see your results, simply click the Get Results link on the cell phone entry page to view how you did!
I think I'll just pass on the test, instead.
]]>@FLEB: Facebook applications are hosted off site using a proprietary markup language that's incredibly difficult to master and most applications are based off templates found in the Google Code library, so you're not too far off.
It's an disappointing truth that probably 95% of the people with the programming skill to write a decent application don't have the social knowledge to write a decent application (or they're busy with silly things like jobs and lives).
]]>wish i wasn't so bloody stupid, i didn't know it was a scam. I blindly thought my friends had taken the IQ test and i was just another one of those stupid tests that compare you to your friends. I didn't even realise when i took the test and put my mobile number in to get my score that i was signing up to this scam rubbish, i didn't even check my phone bill for 2 months cause it comes out automatically and only just realised that i have been charged over $100 for these premium text. As usual they can be deceptive with this and there is nothing illegal apparently. Makes me sick.
]]>Oh really? My nigerian uncle died years ago and they will wire me the money as soon as I tell them my life story. Not to mention, I keep playing the British lottery! Sure wish I remembered buying that ticket...
]]>well, in a recession people are trying to make money in any way shape or form. I admit, if i was a little more computer savvy, I would be making money off the things that annoy me the most.. (click here to skip this add. Or my personal favorite: you will be redirected to your page in 18 years. psh)@Nick1693: @xtc46 - thinksmarter on twitter:
]]>SANDRA
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If the credit is done correctly, thru a specific tool for management of downloads, than it is like a chargeback and the download company takes the cost. If the credit is applied thru the billing system directly, then at&t eats the cost of the credit.
]]>That said, the ones that do try and shove "Send annoying invites to all your friends! (Click the very small button at the bottom to decline)" down your throat are really annoying.
]]>Only 19.99 per month!
]]>I took that test, put my number in and received a message everyday which charged me money. Can anyone tell me how to stop it from receiving this message?
]]>I'm really getting tired of someone trying to "sucker" me every way I turn. Facebook must really have some desperate need for ad dollars to leave this thing on there.
]]>Are our children learning*
]]>How is that legal?
]]>Sandra
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@Michael Monaco: That's not exactly true. The IQs of a large enough population will resemble a bell curve. The tests are typically made such that a 100 is the median score. That doesn't mean that on this specific test, with this particular sample of data you won't get a different average.
You could make an IQ test that went from 0 to 900 and the median on a large population would be 450.
]]>Told all my friends this was a scam, guess I was right
]]>I think if you put your phone number in, it overrides your actual results and tell you your IQ is 0.
]]>psst: adblock is your friend.
]]>@mechanismatic: Now this post is golden. A winner is you.
]]>@BathroomDuck: I'm not sure that pedantry is a form of humor.
]]>In related news, there is also an ad for "This person has a crush on you, see who else does" that shows up fairly regularly.
The first time I saw this, it was saying that my cousin had a crush on me. Yeah, right.
]]>@Lameth: :)
]]>@Brian James Schend: Or maybe it simply means they have a sense of humor.
]]>@David in Brasil: Really? I find the opposite to be the case.
]]>@David in Brasil: ha! good one
]]>You can tell the dumbasses pretty easily since they insult miniscule grammar errors while ignoring the actual argument. It means they are too dumb to have a real viewpoint.
]]>@David in Brasil: Work in D.C do you?
]]>If you don't touch the ad, you got an IQ of at least 150. If you touch it, 90. If you answer the questions, you lose 10 points every question.
Sending the test will cause the retardation police to come to your door. And then they'll sell you timeshares.
]]>On second thought, and closer inspection, maybe not. "construction" may have been a miscategorization. Prolly just a kid who used to be a blackhat hacker and found a way to make a buck marginally legally.
]]>Their phone number turns up this listing,
which seems to imply that it's a construction company. I don't think it's a hijacked domain, I think the guy went broke in construction and decided that scamming children was a good way to make up for it.
]]>Sigh. I guess we're getting to a point in society where nobody gives a crap about ethics. More and more we hear about these barely-legal scams that rake in obscene money, and nobody does anything (probably because all the politicians are *also* raking in obscene amounts of money from said scammers.)
]]>Yes, shame on Facebook for permitting this scammy ad that masquerades as a FB game.
]]>My girlfriend took this test last night. She got to that page and started entering her cell number and I leaned over to see what she was doing and told her to stop. Thank god I did.
]]>@dragon:ONE: [mcfallsco.com] goes to their website with contact info...although I doubt its a legit. For stuff like this the domain probabaly got hijacked and is being used with the owner knowing.
]]>Registrant:
McFalls & Company
Daniel McFalls (dmcfalls@mcfallsco.com)
10222 S. 80th Ct.
Palos Hills
IL,60465
US
Tel. +1.7082336200
Fax. +00.0000000
Creation Date: 07-Nov-1997
Expiration Date: 06-Nov-2009
Unfortunatly mcfallsco.com leads to nowhere, so we're kinda SOL on that route.
]]>If they do, they're not my friends.
]]>Did you know that I'm Persian royalty and that I can claim my family's inheritance by forwarding $2,500 to free up the trust account? My barrister emailed me today and I gave him access to my checking account.
]]>You actually pass the IQ test if you are smart enough to read the fine print and not give them your cell phone #! ;)
]]>Scams like this are HIGHLY profitable, which is why networks allow them, and why the scammers find work arounds when rules are in place. I know several people who run Ad's like these for a living, and while I dont agree with their methods, I can't help but envy their paychecks.
Dont trust things you see online. People, in general, dont do things for free. If its online for "free" their is usually a catch (not always, but usually) and many times its small print like this, advertising included in what you are getting, or posts asking for donations every couple of days.
]]>This kind of deceptive advertising is ridiculous.
]]>If 97 is the average their are a lot of dumbass people in this world.
]]>You find these sorts of things (IQ tests, personality tests, "what star wars character are you" etc) all over Myspace.
You also see the 30 second ads for "joke of the day" or "fun fact of the day" on The N and Nickelodeon and other networks aimed at children and teens... all of which say "Text "joke" to xxxxx to get your joke of the day" and in the fine print, on screen for about 2 seconds, it says you'll be charged.
Why the heck don't the networks / websites / etc have at least SOME accountability for not allowing scam ads?
For that matter, why doesn't FTC enforce requirmeents that the terms be disclosed in readable form, not below the fold of a webpage where the "accept" button is above?
]]>My only defense to this scam is that I don't have a cell phone.
]]>My grandfater has a site about puppies and received a free $20 advertising credit on Facebook. He went onto Facebook and created an ad and it was declined. They gave no other reason that "it did not fit our stringent editorial policy of high quality websites".
This fucking cell phone scam bullshit is quote/unquote "Quality", Facebook?
Looks like you people will take any advertisement as long as the company is willing to pay.
What a joke.
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