Thanks for the tip July, but unfortunately these things seem to be regional. Here in Spain, all I get are rip off offers, all over the internet there are a number of ads that claim all sorts of offers, all you have to do is enter your mobile number. You end up tied to an offer that is VERY difficult to get out of, they charge you an exhorbitant sum (to your phone bill) for receiving texts from them. It is all in the (really) small print that nobody bothers to read before clicking the "I accept button".

I don't know for certain that these offers are dodgy, but they bear all the hallmarks of a ruse I was taken in by some years ago, an offer of 100 free texts per month. Unfortunately, I was receiving the texts, not sending them, and I was signed up to some useless information service that cost a fortune. It took a lot of work to get myself out of that contract.

The message here is not to not take up the offers, but to read carefully what you are agreeing to. Shame on Nordeus for allying themselves to unscupulous sponsors. There is an old adage, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is!