Prohibition of paid content short numbers

Clients of cellular companies, including Megafon, often fall for paid subscriptions and various paid services that are activated by random actions of the subscriber. These paid subscriptions are completely useless for many customers and waste a lot of money. Fraudsters try to trick the subscriber into calling a short number or sending a paid message.

To warn its customers against wasting money, Megafon created a service that prohibits paid entertainment services and called it “Stop Content” Megafon .

There are many fraudulent resources on the world wide web that can impose and connect a subscriber to a paid subscription. In this case, the person will not even guess about it. Therefore, when using a smartphone, you need to be careful and not press unnecessary buttons. You can become a participant in paid content completely by accident.

This service is recommended for elderly people and children, who often fall for scammers. However, despite the ban on paid subscriptions, you can get caught connecting to paid services. This will be possible if connected. Let's look at how useful things work on Megafon, and how they can be controlled.

What is the Stop content service Megafon

Mobile paid subscriptions can be activated using a special USSD command, as well as by sending a message to a short paid number. The cost of such subscriptions can reach large amounts. In addition, young children can access adult content. Therefore, access to such numbers must be blocked, which will protect children from unwanted information and yourself from unnecessary expenses.

The new one carries out prohibited actions to send messages, USSD commands and calls to paid numbers. Useful services that subscribers need do not suffer from this service, since the ban applies only to paid numbers and short commands. You, as before, will use online payments, work in mobile banking, make calls to the operator’s service and other free calls from the “ 8-800».

The disadvantage in this matter is: the Megafon Stop Content service is valid only in the region of registration of the SIM card (home region). However, this does not prevent the service from becoming a good option for limiting paid access to entertainment. The positive thing is that there are no subscription fees or costs for connecting to the service.

How to disable

Since the service is free, you don’t have to turn it off. If you need to activate a paid subscription, then you need to deactivate the service. The procedure is simple and involves several basic options:

Enter service request *526#.
Using your personal account, in which you need to go to the section with services, go to the active options tab, find the one you need and click on the disable button. A similar procedure is carried out in the mobile application.

After disabling the service using any of the described methods, an SMS confirmation is sent to the number. Then you can start connecting content again, sending messages to paid short numbers and making calls.

Limit access to paid services of content providers.

Set a ban and then you will not be able to use paid entertainment SMS, commands, voice services of content providers, as well as numbers.

detailed information

Peculiarities

When connecting to the service, existing subscriptions are not disabled.

The service does not apply to:

SMS, voice numbers and commands for MegaFon services, except;
calls to numbers 8800-;
payment for parking in the application via USSD * 377 # and via SMS to numbers 7377 and 7757;
purchases through Pay By Click (shopping on social networks, etc.).

How to disable

Enable “Banning of paid content short numbers”

Connection methods

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Methods for connecting “Stop Content”

A positive factor is the ability to connect to the service without leaving the apartment, that is, remotely. To do this, you need to dial a certain combination of characters on your smartphone: * 526 # and the call button. After a short period of time (a few seconds), the service is activated.

As confirmation, a text message will be sent to your smartphone stating that this service has been activated successfully and that access to paid short numbers is blocked. The negative point is that the USSD team is working to disable the service not throughout the country. In other words, after sending a command to connect a service, you will see a redirect to an interactive menu that does not contain a command to connect the service in question.

In such regions, the Stop content Megafon +how service can be activated in other ways, for example, using the “Personal Account”. You can access it using the corresponding mobile application from Megafon on your smartphone, as well as by accessing the operator’s official website through a browser on your computer.

The application for mobile devices can be installed from the Play Market. To authorize, you will need the phone number and password that was given to you when registering in your “Personal Account”. If you have not registered in it yet, then you should go through this simple procedure.

After authorization and logging into your “Personal Account”, you should go to the “options and services” tab. On this page you need to go to the “all available” tab, where a list of services available for connection on your account will be presented. For the convenience of subscribers, these services are divided into groups by category - calls, Internet, messages, etc.

The service we are considering is located in the “other services” group. At the bottom of the page there is a link to. After clicking on it, you need to click on the “Connect” link, which will activate the ban on paid content on the mobile operator. You will be notified of this by text message. After this, paid subscriptions will become impossible for you; even accidentally clicking on a fraudulent button will not produce a paid subscription.

How to enable short code ban from MegaFon

To activate, you can use different methods that allow you not to leave your apartment or work. All you need to do is dial *526# on your mobile device and make a call. In 5-15 minutes an SMS will be sent to your phone with the ban activated. It is not always possible to use a service request, so there are alternative activation methods:

Enable the ban through your personal account. First you need to register, provide a mobile number and receive a password. After authorization, go to section with and click the connect button.
Use the mobile application. It completely replicates the functionality of your personal account, but works on a smartphone. Use is free, only traffic is charged, the activation process is no different from the computer.

If you encounter difficulties with connection, it is recommended to call the support service or personally contact MegaFon employees in a communication salon.

You must have a passport or other documents confirming your identity with you.

Other ways to get rid of paid content

The Megafon service banning paid content short numbers is not the only option for banning paid subscriptions. Another reliable method of protecting yourself from intrusive services from providers is to open an auxiliary content account. If available, the mobile operator is not allowed to write off funds for paid services from the client’s main account.

Therefore, you just need to maintain this account without money, and no paid services will be connected. You can open such an account by personally contacting Megafon’s customer departments, of which there are sufficient quantities.

general information

First, let's tell you what it is - access to Megafon content. Any subscriber can activate subscriptions for an additional fee and receive SMS newsletters from short numbers. Most often these are the following services:

Adviсe;
Horoscopes;
Recipes;
Jokes;
Weather and currency forecasts and much more.

Services provided by the operator and its partners are paid from the mobile phone balance. Sometimes such options can be activated accidentally - by a child or by pressing a button or advertising banner. We will tell you what the ban on paid Megafon short numbers is and what its features are.

Banning entertainment content Megafon is a special service from the operator that limits the receipt of SMS messages with entertainment information.

The ban includes restrictions on the following services:

Entertaining SMS commands;
Voice services providers;
Numbers of the “Mood” option.

Please note that the ban on Megafon short numbers does not apply to:

Calls to numbers starting with 8-800;
Purchases through the Pay By Click service;
Operator services (SMS, commands, voice numbers), except for the “Mood” option;
Payment for parking by numbers 7377, 7757 and *377#.

The cost of the service is 0 rubles, connection is also free. Let's look at how to connect Megafon "Stop Content" and protect yourself from unnecessary entertainment mailings.

Features of Stop Content

The ban on paid subscriptions for this service does not apply to the following services:

Payment for car parking using the application using USSD commands and SMS messages.
Short voice messages, Megafon operator’s own services using USSD commands, text messages.
Calls to toll-free numbers from the “ 8-800 ” series are not blocked and remain accessible.
The service does not block purchases on social networks using Pay By Click .
If any paid subscriptions are already connected, they will not be disconnected.

Beeline

To disable all paid services, call from your mobile phone the number 0611.
We connect with the operator and ask you to check whether any paid services are connected, and if they are connected, we ask you to turn everything off.

Please connect (barring calls and SMS to short paid numbers)

“Promotional Prohibition” (prohibition of connecting free services that later become paid)

PS: On tariffs with a postpaid payment system, the ability to send SMS to short numbers is initially blocked.

Methods to disable the service

If you ever want to use paid entertainment services, it will be enough to disconnect the previously connected one. This procedure is as simple as connecting it. You can disable the service in the following ways:

Using the USSD command using the *526# and the call button;
Using the “ Personal Account ” functionality, go to the “ services and options ” tab, then “ my ”, and then “ stop content ” - “ disable ”.

After these steps, a message will be sent to your number confirming the deactivation of this service. After that, you can use paid entertainment, services and various subscriptions from Internet providers.

Tele 2

Check the cost of SMS to a short number from a Tele2 phone: dial * 125 * ХХХХ# and press the call key, where ХХХХ is a short number for SMS.

To turn it on, please contact the help desk at 611.

PS: The above methods work for subscribers in the central region of Russia. The rest have not been tested, but should work everywhere.

If your operator is not on the list, but you also suffered from mobile fraud, indicate the name of the operator in the comments and we will let you know whether you can disable the SMS service to short numbers.

Remember that all these services will not save you 100% from all advertising, intrusive services and mobile fraud. The main thing is your consciousness and prudence. Do not install unknown applications, do not send SMS yourself to short numbers and everything will be fine. But it is better to do the above steps. As they say, God protects those who are careful. I especially recommend connecting all these services to the mobile phones of children and the elderly, because... they most often fall for the tricks of scammers.

Good luck! Take care of yourself and your loved ones.

Author: Maria Sukhorukikh
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Reviews

Leonid Samoilov, 25 years old, Nizhny Novgorod.

Megafon are generally interesting guys, I’ll tell you. One day I became interested in their tariff conditions and connected, and after a while I was simply inundated with streams of all sorts of different advertisements, and it was something like this: “Television on your phone every day, pay 20 rubles for it every day, do you want it? Then click Yes” And there are no options, you need to carefully minimize this notification without pressing the ill-fated “Yes” key, which is so conveniently located under your finger. Several times I fell for this bait, because I mechanically pressed the key, thinking that I was opening a new SMS. As a result, we had to install a service to ban various spam from short numbers. However, advertising has not stopped clicking, although there are fewer of them, only now they come from official numbers and via SMS. Overall, it's just terrible.

Nikolay Kormin, 36 years old, Izhevsk.

I recently connected to Megafon, first read people’s comments and realized that it was better to immediately use a service that prohibits access to short numbers. I can say that this operator provides excellent communications, although the mentioned service works somewhat strangely. It seems that it does not block advertising completely, but selectively, letting through only those who cooperate with this company, even if only in SMS format. But still it is not entirely pleasant, although not fatal.

Maxim Zinurov, 32 years old, Moscow.

For my daughter’s birthday (she went to first grade), she and her wife gave her a smartphone. We connected her to Megafon, since the whole family uses its services. They set a standard tariff, which, by the way, my wife is connected to. Considering that the wife is a talker, it costs about 500 rubles to pay for her phone. However, in the first month I had to put 1000 rubles on my daughter’s smartphone. Halfway through the second month, the payment amount again approached 1000, then I talked with my daughter and found out that she was receiving various SMS messages in which she was invited to watch cartoons or put on different melodies instead of beeps. I arrived at the nearest Megafon office in order to figure out what was what, it turned out that such messages are normal for this operator, and to disable them you need to connect an additional option. To the question “Why didn’t my wife and I see this?” I was never given an answer, but the service was still connected. Now everything is fine, but the most interesting thing is that now I pay no more than 250-300 rubles a month for my daughter’s phone.

Service management

You can manage it as follows:

Connection by command * 526 * 1 * 1 # ;
Disable - * 526 * 2 * 1 # ;
Information - * 526 #.

You can also activate “Ban” yourself in your personal account in the “Services” section at the link lk.megafon.ru.

When contacting the MegaFon-Retail office or the 0500 certificate, you need to be prepared for the fact that the operator may refuse to connect. This is due to the fact that in the procedures of service specialists there is only a clause about the possibility of disabling the service, and connecting is prohibited. But many specialists agree to the meeting and calmly turn on “STOP content” at the subscriber’s request.

If you are a corporate client, you will not be able to enable the service in your personal account yourself. To do this, the organization's contact person must contact his service manager with a statement.

“Banning Paid Content Short Codes” is completely free.

Disabling subscriptions from a mobile operator

Some content is connected by the mobile operator. It is included in the list of entertainment services of the company. This could be news, a horoscope or erotic materials. You can deactivate them by sending a special combination to the short number 5151.

How to set a ban on Megafon subscriptions:

OFF – the command prohibits the connection of erotic content;
USTZAPROT1 – prohibition on using the “Mobile Subscriptions” service;
NETCLICK1 – disables the ability to send messages to a short number;
USTZAPRETVP – a ban on viewing the content of the entertainment portal “MediaMix”;
USTPBK1 – the owner of the SIM card will not be able to go to the site that automatically subscribes;
USTZAPRETSP - the subscriber is prohibited from subscribing to any entertainment services.

Attention
Outgoing SMS to a short number is not charged.

Deactivation is set for 90 days. After this time, the entertainment service may reconnect without prior warning. Therefore, we advise you to set a reminder to resend the message.

Features of the service

The proposed one is not compatible with . To use this option must be disabled.
The block list can be up to 1000 numbers.
You must accept that some sender numbers cannot be blocked. These numbers include the MegaFon operator, as well as bank payment numbers, which are used for notification purposes about completed transactions.
will continue to operate even if the balance of your number falls into the negative and is blocked, except for the function of managing the list of blocked numbers.

valid only on the territory of the Russian Federation, with the exception of the territory of the cities of Crimea and Sevastopol.

If your number has been added to the block list, you can send an SMS using the voice SMS service

Features and description of the service

from Megafon allows you to permanently restrict the connection of third-party content to the SIM card. As a rule, additional options are activated in several ways:

Automatically – if the option was provided in test mode, after the trial period it is activated automatically.
By chance - the subscriber receives an advertising notification or visits a website that independently signs up for a subscription.
Independently – the owner of the SIM card personally activates the additional service. For example, a horoscope or daily weather forecast. In this case, the service legally supplies information and charges the subscription fee.

For your information
Megafon offers its customers to permanently limit the ability to activate subscriptions. To do this, you need to enable the prohibited option. But don’t forget to unsubscribe from existing content first.

Prohibitions of communication services

Types of prohibitions

Barring all outgoing calls - you will only be able to receive incoming calls.
Barring outgoing international calls - you will be able to make outgoing calls only within the country where you are at the time of the call.
Banning calls from another GSM network to all countries except Russia - you can make calls only within the country in which you are at the time of the call, as well as call to Russia.
Barring all incoming calls - you can only make outgoing calls.
Barring incoming calls when the subscriber is in another GSM network - you will only be able to make outgoing calls when roaming.

MegaFon content service. Content ban

People who use communication services from MegaFon are often annoyed by intrusive subscriptions, various requests for which they need to pay money, or random calls to paid short numbers. In addition, today there are many scammers who, under the guise of short numbers, force subscribers to make calls or send messages. As a result, funds disappear from the balance sheet. You can secure your account by using a special service from MegaFon called “Stop Content”.

Content

Reasons for disabling/blocking SMS notifications

Any mobile communication tariff package includes the function of sending SMS. This is a very convenient function, because you can write a notification if you can’t make a call. But recently, mobile phone users mostly communicate using instant messengers, so there is no need for SMS messages. Especially if they are of a bothersome nature.

Therefore, you should consider options for blocking incoming SMS directly from subscribers and notifications in the form of annoying advertising. The main ones are:

Adding a subscriber to the “Black List” or to the “Filter”. This opportunity is provided by all mobile operators.
You can also contact technical support and explain the situation to a consultant.
In some modern gadgets, you can set a limit on receiving messages using the option to block incoming notifications, it is located in the “Settings” option.

To set a block, you can use your Personal Account after appropriate authorization.

If you do not have access to the Internet, you can use another option, namely by dialing 111. This is a voice assistant for MTS subscribers.

Megaphone

Megafon tariff plan users can also block SMS messages. But is it paid and its subscription fee per day is 1 ruble, regardless of the number of subscribers? included in the list. This service is activated using a USSD request – *130*(subscriber number) hash.

To check blocked numbers, you need to make a request to the short number *130*3 hash. You can also send SMS to number 5130.

Beeline

In order to provide the ability to protect its subscribers from intrusive calls and SMS, the mobile operator Beeline has provided a blocking function. To do this, you can contact the Beeline mobile operator directly and get the necessary advice about.

It is also possible to send a request using the USSD command. In this case, you should specify the following combination: *110*771* (number of the subscriber you want to disconnect) hash.

If you need to unblock a number, you need to send the following request – *110*771 (***) hash.

To check blacklisted numbers, you can send a request - *110*773 hash.

In conclusion, it should be said that you can block a number from subscribers in any mobile device, but it all depends on the phone model, but basically this function is found in the “Call Settings”, “Message Settings” options or in “Contacts” in the menu of a specific contact.

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Connecting and disconnecting

The operator provides one way to manage the service. So, how to enable the ban on paid content Megafon:

Open your smartphone keyboard;
Enter code *526# ;
Click the call icon;
From the menu that opens, select “Enable” and press the corresponding number.

Ready! The service will be activated within 10-15 minutes.

Now let's look at how to disable content on Megafon:

Open digital input on your device;
Enter code *526# ;
Click the call icon;
From the menu that opens, select “Disable” and press the corresponding number.

That's all. Unfortunately, at the moment, managing the option through your personal account is not implemented and this is the only way to activate and deactivate it.

We told you about the operator option, we hope now you will not have any questions regarding this topic) If there are any misunderstandings, be sure to ask your questions in the comments, we will be happy to answer them

Infotainment services: Ban on paid content short numbers MegaFon

Often, when using the Internet from a mobile phone, we visit various sites, sometimes with dubious content. Someone is looking for where they can download a free movie, watch a video, find ready-made homework for a child, play games, someone is interested in piquant content. Without thinking, we go to websites and enter our phone number for “free” registration. The result of such thoughtless transitions will certainly be an absolutely useless subscription to any entertainment content of dubious content. The cost of such subscriptions varies from 5-6 rubles per day to 150 and even more. The average price is 30 rubles per day.

It is sometimes difficult to disable an established subscription on your own. This can be done in your personal account or by calling the operator’s support line. But as you know, prevention is easier and cheaper than treatment. In order to protect their subscribers from unwanted subscriptions to content from third-party providers, operators are developing protection services. This service is very well presented by MegaFon and has existed for a long time.

Detailed description

Using this option allows customers to block the ability to make calls, send messages or requests to paid short numbers. This function allows you to save funds on your mobile account and protect yourself and your family from unnecessary expenses. MegaFon subscribers can use the service regardless of the tariff plan used. The only important thing is that the service applies to use on a home network. Outside of this area the service will not work.

Access to short numbers provided by the operator is not blocked. This way, customers will be able to continue calling and sending messages and requests to service numbers.

The option is provided free of charge, which undoubtedly can be considered an advantage. There are no activation fees and no subscription fees.

It is worth noting some features inherent in the service:

The option does not work outside the home network and in roaming, both national and international.
Subscribers who need paid content can find out its cost using a special price list. You can find it on the MegaFon website.

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