Comments on: Platte Media Mania

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:56:58 +0000

In future, I will be returning Oriel’s mail demands unopened. They are not addressed to anyone living in my house: clearly platte have been fishing unsuccessfuly for a name to hang their unjustified demands for money on.
This nonsense has gone on for months. Has anyone been prosecuted by platte or Oriel yet or is this just intimidatory bull**** on the part of both companies?

By: Mr Tommy

Mr Tommy — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:13:05 +0000

Go to C:\ and change directory to C:\windows\system32 then enter dir pm_*.* causing all Platte related items to show. Then rename the listed items one by one eg ren pm_rec1.exe pm_rec1.ex1
After all items renamed, enter del pm_*.* and they are gone.
Restart or enter Alt-Ctrl-Del to finish processes with original names you just renamed.

By: Deano

Deano — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:24:36 +0000

We have been scammed by this platte company and it has got to the stage where we have now received a letter from Oriel Collections Ltd demanding payment (Well its so poorly written, it’s not much of a letter).

My hunch is just to continue ignoring them and hope that they go away, but it is getting extremely annoying and they appear to be persistant buggers!!

What have others done in this situation, I know legally they don’t have a leg to stand on and it’s so obvious it’s one big con!

Any feedback would be gratefully appreciated.

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 16:24:02 +0000

Hi there,

I’m also a victum of this Malcompany.

Luckely I saw the sign that says it’s a 3 day free trial, and that you have to cancel within 3 days if you don’t want it. After a couple of minutes, my pc didn’t work anymore! Can’t open anything! I got suspicious. Saw the icon of the download and a bill! Openend the bill and saw € 60,– charge for 3 months!Looked like a contract! I got scared! Clicked on something on the bill, and it changed into € 0,–.
Immediately I removed the download and the bill.
But my pc is very slow and don’t want to start any program. I’ll have to ask a serviceman to delete all the malstuff off the pc! I’ve seen your links to do so. Hope it works!

Signed up friday april 3rd and today (4th april)send an email to cancell the damn thing! With the sign they gave me an accountnumber, a telephone number, an emailadress and my IP number!Have to check with the serviceman if this really is my account number! The emailadress they provided is:support.nl@platteservices.com.
To this emailadress I’ve sent my cancellation! As it’s within the 3 days, I think they don’t have the right to send me any bill! Problem is now to get my pc clean and working!

Can anyone please provide me a right emailadress where I can send my cancellation to? I just have till april 5th 12.00 am!
Hope anyone there can help me!
Do you think I handled it right!? No bills or whatsoever?

Don’t mind my English please! It’s not my native language!

Many thanks in advance!
Ingrid

HELP HELP HELP

By: Beta Mum

Beta Mum — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:54:45 +0000

Kay – ignore it. Remove the software from your PC using one of the methods you can find links to on this site, and forget about it.

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:07:23 +0000

I recently recieved a letter from a debt collection agency demanding £54 from us. Because, apparently, someone in this house “signed up” to getfilmsnow.

Can they prove it was someone in the house, legally, when they don’t even have a name?

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:05:41 +0000

You all might be interested to read this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/11/platte-mbs-shuts-uk-operation

Whether this is the last we’ll see of the likes of Ashley Bateup is another matter.

By: Harry

Harry — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:58:52 +0000

Does anyone know how to delete Platte Account. Its supposed to delete itsself after about 4 months. Dont phone them as they are making money from the premium rate calls, and dont give them your address. Do nothing except look for a way to delete the account, which is attatched to a programme somewhere, all you have to do is find it, or you can have a word with with your email suppier and get the messages blocked. Hope this helps. H.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:31:37 +0000

You all shouldn’t blame your minors because my family computor was infected by Platte media,
none of us signed up to anything 7 screens or otherwise, it came across while accessing another site or though we haven’t identified which site.

So beware these con artist have sent demand letters addressed to the Computer owner, I ask you would anyone sign you up for anything without your full details and especially your full name? I don’t think so, and they only got our address after my wife rang them to complain.

So don’t ring them it’s a waste of time and don’t tell them your address.

By: Kwasi

Kwasi — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:09:31 +0000

I have had this platte media problem since last year. I made the mistake jonzi did by being honest with them when i first saw the pop up. I rang them and tried to tell them my innocence but just like their name. Their staff are all pratts!!! I foolishly gave them my address so they can send a removal tool, now they are sending lettters demanding pay and court threats. Thing is their removal tool doesnt actually work and read somewhere on a forum that they(platte media) donot know how to take the software off people’s pc. Thanks to a website that was being sued then by platte, i was able to take the menace off my computer.

To offer such sensitive films on the internet on subscription basis and not making access a little bit secure is ridiculous.

I just recieved the letter saying oriel will come for the money. I am waiting for oriel