Balance to pay for additional Beeline services. Second account for content

With the problem of money disappearing from a mobile phone account in Lately encountered by almost every second subscriber cellular communications in Russia. As a rule, this occurs due to a “spontaneous” connection additional services, SMS subscriptions or entertainment services by short numbers. Today we will talk about one of the most effective ways protecting money on your personal phone account, connecting a second (separate) account to pay for content services.

Since May 2014, amendments to the Law “On Communications” came into force in Russia, in accordance with which, when providing content services, cellular operators are required to first inform the subscriber about their cost and obtain explicit consent to provide services. In addition, the subscriber was able to create a separate account to pay for content services. In this case, money can be written off only from this “additional account”. The main account will remain untouchable. If the “additional account” has a zero balance, the content service simply will not be provided.

Subscribers who do not want to open a separate personal account to pay for content will continue to pay for these services in the usual manner - from their single account.

It must be said that the legislative initiative is very sensible. It looks especially useful for users mobile Internet: USB modems, routers, tablets - when visiting a particular site automatically subscribes the subscriber to a paid service. Another thing is that all these possibilities are not very advertised by operators. According to data received from all mobile operators working in the Urals, only 70 thousand subscribers out of almost 20 million use an additional personal account (data as of January 1, 2015). This is 0.35% of the entire subscriber base.

Contacts to sales and service offices only confirm this thesis. Thus, in six out of ten salons, consultants were taken by surprise by our request to connect a second personal account. Only after 5-7 minutes they were ready to discuss the connection diagram in detail. According to them, there are very, very few people with similar requests.

Beeline

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Connecting a second personal account implemented in Beeline from May 1, 2014. The service is activated free of charge either when the subscriber contacts the operator’s office, or through activation in his personal account, or by calling 07226. Subscription fee absent.

Whenever you try to connect one or another paid service, Beeline sends the subscriber an SMS message about the cost of the service before activating it; requests additional confirmation ordering a service; tells the subscriber about the content provider, indicating the cost and method of disconnection while using the service. In addition, the operator informs you monthly about what content provider services are connected to the number and how to disable them. After five months, the subscription must be renewed by explicit confirmation from the customer. If there is no confirmation, it turns off automatically.

Unlike other operators, Beeline has two types of personal accounts for content services. The first, with automatic replenishment of the balance - that is, if the subscriber runs out of money on the second account and needs to pay for some content service, the funds will be automatically transferred from your main account. In essence, this format devalues the entire scheme with an additional account. Be careful when connecting to the service. Choose the second account option - without automatic replenishment. In this case, if you run out of money on your second account and need to pay for some content service, you will need to deposit funds manually from your main account. You can connect an account without auto-replenishment via Personal Area, in Beeline’s own office with the help of an office employee by calling a short number 07226 by sending a request to the number *110*5062# .

Principle of operation:

Payment for all services and subscriptions that do not relate to Beeline’s own content and payment for services is debited from the additional account social networks. Beeline content and social networking services are paid from the main personal account.

The additional account is replenished in the same way as the main number. Instead of the first digit of the number being “9”, the first digit of the number will be “6”. For example, 8-905-875-01-15 is the main personal account, 8-605-875-01-15 is an additional one.

It is also possible to transfer funds from the main personal account to the additional one and vice versa.

Combination for transfer from the main account to the additional one:

*220*amount in rubles# dial

Combination for transfer from additional to main account:

*222*amount in rubles# dial

Megaphone

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Each MegaFon subscriber in the Urals can independently connect to a separate content account using the following methods: convenient ways: by typing the USSD command on your phone *393*4*1# call key or using request *393# go to the second page by pressing “4” and then 1. Create an account, go to the “Service Guide” self-service system and there, in the “Content Services” section, create an account for additional services in a matter of seconds. Corporate clients with any payment system - advance or credit - they can also connect to a content account by writing an application at any MegaFon office.

Principle of operation:

By sending a message to a short number or typing some USSD request via entertainment service, the subscriber receives a message requesting confirmation of debits from the content account; after sending the confirmation, the availability of the required amount on the content account is checked; if the balance is insufficient, the subscriber will be denied the service, and accordingly no debits will occur.

The cost of SMS, USSD requests for short numbers, partner subscriptions will be debited from the created content account. If the balance of this account is zero, activation of additional services and mobile subscriptions will be unavailable.

The operator’s own services are paid from the main personal account, including such content services as the MegaFon.TV Media Portal, Video Portal, Kaleidoscope. Other reference and entertainment services, which relate to content services provided with the involvement of MegaFon partners, are paid from the content account if the required amount is available on it.

You can comfortably top up your content account or transfer money from an additional account to the main one using the “Service Guide” self-service system in the “Content Services” section, then “Top up your content services account.” You can also find out the balance of your content account and quickly top it up by requesting *393*2#.

MOTIVE

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To connect an additional personal account to pay for content services, you just need to come to any office of the company with your passport and write an application. The account will be opened on the same day. Opening fee and further use There is no provision for a second personal account per subscriber.

If a short number is used to order communication services, for example, to activate a package of minutes or SMS, the money is debited from the main account. If the short number is used to order any content services - ringtones, pictures, postcards, horoscopes, etc. - money is debited from an additional account, of course, if you have one. If there are not enough funds on the additional personal account to pay for a particular content, the service will not be provided.

Principle of operation:

When ordering any content service, MOTIV must notify the subscriber about the cost and validity period, after which it is automatically disabled, as well as double confirmation order.

“An additional personal account cannot 100% protect subscribers from actions mobile scammers, but will help control the costs of paying for content services. For example, to avoid unplanned expenses, you can open an additional personal account for your child, maintain an almost zero balance on it and be sure that the little subscriber will not spend the monthly budget on ringtones and pictures,” stated the MOTIV press service.

MOTIV subscribers can top up an additional personal account at any office of the company or at a payment terminal that supports this functionality. IN this moment A service is being developed that allows you to transfer money from your main account to a secondary account. It is promised to be launched during the first half of 2015.

MTS

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To open a separate personal account to pay for content services, the subscriber must personally contact the MTS store and fill out an application for the provision of services. In fact successful processing application, the subscriber will receive an SMS message about the activation of a separate account from the following text: “A separate personal account for the number +79ХХХХХХХХХ has been successfully created, virtual number phone +71ХХХХХХХХХ. Use it to top up your funds and request your balance.” The application processing period is 10 days from the date of application.

Principle of operation:

When connecting to the service, payment for all content services provided by third-party content providers (except for services provided through single portal government and municipal services), will be made from the second personal account. If the subscriber has not opened a separate personal account, the cost of these services will be debited from the subscriber's main account.

In order for a subscriber to order content services when using a separate personal account, the balance of this personal account must be above zero. With absence Money Payment and provision of content services will not be made on an additional personal account.

The subscriber can replenish an additional account through payment systems, through a bank, and also using bank card. In this case, you must indicate the virtual account number in the format +7-1XX-XXX-XX-XX or enter the number of a separate LAN directly. You can transfer funds from your main personal account to a secondary account in your personal account or using the command *112*[your virtual number]*[amount in rubles]. You can check the balance of your second personal account using the USSD command *100*103# or in the subscriber’s personal account.

Tele2 (Rostelecom)

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To obtain a content personal account, a subscriber just needs to contact any Tele2 communication store with a passport and fill out a written application. The content account will be created within a few days, of which the subscriber will be notified via SMS.

Subscriber expenses for basic services communications (calls, SMS, Internet) will be debited from the main personal account, and expenses for content - from the content personal account. Content services include services provided by third parties (content providers) on short numbers, as well as operator services such as dating, one-time and subscription services issued on entertainment portals etc. All popular Tele2 content services are collected on the operator’s website, where subscribers can independently and safely subscribe to content of interest.

If the balance is zero, funds are not debited from the account, i.e. the subscriber will not be able to use the service until there are insufficient funds in the account to provide it. Thus, Tele2 subscribers are protected from unwanted costs.

Principle of operation:

When requesting a new content service, the subscriber receives an SMS message indicating the service, its cost, and the name of the content provider that provides it. To activate the service, the subscriber must send a confirmation in response.

A subscriber can top up a content personal account by transferring funds from his main personal account using USSD commands. For the convenience of subscribers, commands have also been created to check the balance and return funds from the content personal account to the main one. All operations on opening, closing, content management personal account free.

*160# - certificate of content personal account balance

*160*SUM# - transfer of funds from the subscriber’s main personal account to his content account.

*160*AMOUNT*0# - return of funds from the subscriber’s content personal account to his main account.

How to connect a separate personal account for content services and mobile subscriptions?

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Creating a separate personal account for content services on your SIM card is one of the most effective ways to protect against theft. However, it is impossible to talk about 100% protection against fraudulent charges, since branded services of operators are excluded from the scope of these rules.

However, subscribers, having opened a second account with zero balance, can be sure that they will not give money “for air”.

Have you encountered the problem that funds are debited from your Beeline balance, but you don’t know the reasons? Perhaps you have a paid incoming connection connected to your number mobile content. The point is what to order paid content you could accidentally, and also a subscription to it could be included in general package tariff when purchasing it or switching to it. We will look at what Beeline content ordering is and how to disable it in our article.

Content is any type of information that makes up the content of a resource. In turn, the content that comes to your device can be any information - text, pictures, photographs, audio, video or combined options. Most often, this is some kind of informational text, for example, with a weather forecast, which you don’t pay much attention to. Or the phone downloads certain content on its own. However, almost all incoming content is paid. In the invoice and details of your expenses, the provider will display this item as cdp subs or “content order”. It is not particularly expensive, but still, why these expenses?

There are two main types of ordered paid content:

Content from the telecom operator Beeline.
Content provided by partner organizations.

Important! Pay attention to incoming information from short numbers: 9731, 5591, 8547, 8960, 1955, 9868 – the information coming from these numbers is paid and this means that you are subscribed to paid content. In each case, you will need to disable the ordered content in different ways.

How to find out what's connected

Every user has a question: how could I order paid content and not know about it? And the answers are quite simple. The most common random self-subscription to content comes in only two types:

Inattentive navigation SIM menu on your phone, as a result of which you order paid incoming content.
Clicking to agree to the subscription the offer for which was sent to your device.

Important! Other methods are less common, but in any case you need to be careful when working with electronic information and paper documentation.

First, you need to find out if there is content ordered for your number. How to do it? In order to find out about paid content connected to your number, you can do the following:

You can get information about all connected services using the USSD combination *110*09#, then sending a call. The user will receive a response in an informational SMS message where all active services on your number will be listed.
The voice menu gives access to the automatic assistant “Service Control Center”. To use the service menu you need to call 0674. By following automatic prompts, you can request information about all connected services, content and options. List active services You will receive an informational SMS message on your phone.
You can check the list of connected services and content subscriptions to your number. You can read about the details of working in your Personal Account in our special review. Carefully study the “Services” section under the “Connected” link.
Login from your phone or any other mobile device to the “My Beeline” application and see all connections there. The “Services” section of the application will help you check connected services, options and content subscriptions.
Contact the center technical support network and disable unnecessary content with the help of an operator by calling:

0611 (for subscribers calling from operator numbers mobile communications Beeline)
8 800 700 06 11 (for calls from other numbers)
+7 495 977 88 88 (when roaming while traveling abroad). Then press the number “1” and the number “0”, after which you will contact the operator on duty.

In response to your request, he will also send an information message to the number with a list of connected paid services and subscriptions.

How to disable ordered content

Once you have found out exactly what type of content is ordered for your number, you can turn it off if you are not interested in it. There are several ways to disable incoming content. Below we list how the main types of incoming paid Beeline content are disabled.

You can disable any paid (and free) services by logging into your account on the official website. In the “Services” section, using the “Connected” link, you need to deactivate the status icon by moving it to the non-working position.
The same capabilities are provided to users by the “My Beeline” application installed on a mobile phone. In the “Services” section in the “Connected services” menu you can see the cost and activity of services. It is enough to turn the activity icon into a non-working state and the service will be disabled.
To turn off paid subscriptions SIM will do menu that appears on the phone after installing and activating the SIM card.
To disable each of the paid services, there is a separate USSD combination. Here is a list of commands to disable the most common services:

Entertaining and information service"Chameleon" on Beeline is disabled using.
Dial *110*400# will disable the “Stay in the know” service.
The “Stay informed+” service will be disabled using the combination * 110*1062#. The operator will notify you about this via SMS.
Don't need Internet notifications? Use the combination *110*1470#.
You can disable the “Weather” service using the combination *111*4751#.

Attention! In order to refuse own options dial tone with the “Hello” dial tone replacement service, with which you can change the sound of the signals when the subscriber is trying to call you, you need to call service number 067409770 .

The operator currently offers about 100 paid services; a separate USSD combination is provided for disabling and connecting each of them. All of them can be found on the company’s official website at the link: http://beeline.ru/customers/products/mobile/services/index/cellphone/. Here we have listed only the most common paid content, which is most often automatically connected by the operator.

Disabling SMS content by command or call to a service number

We'll tell you about the most frequently automatically connected paid content services and how to disable paid subscriptions on Beeline. Shutdown incoming content And paid access You can also access the services provided by the operator and partner companies through your personal account on the website or in the mobile application, by calling 0611, or by visiting any branch of the operator in person. Another way to refuse content is to send a ban to the service number of the service from your number.

Paid access to the Videomir 18 service.
If you don't want to pay for music, then access to paid service Beeline Music stops sending SMS the words “STOP” (without quotes) to number 6305.
"Beeline. Kiosk" is stopped by sending the word "STOP" (without quotes) to number 6395.
"Beeline. Books" is stopped by sending the word "STOP" (without quotes) to 6277.
Would you like to take part in the paid quiz “Top up and win”? Stop it by texting the word “STOP” (without quotes) to 5555.
The “Unified Mail” service will be stopped by sending the word “STOP” (without quotes) to number 2824.
The Mailing service will be stopped by sending the word “STOP” (without quotes) to number 5054.
Charges for “Locator” will stop after sending “STOP” (without quotes) to number 5166.
After sending “STOP” (without quotes) to number 9855, the paid subscription to content from the partner company RGK-PRODUCTION LLC will be disconnected.

Important! In the SMS you send, you can write any variant of the word “Stop”, “STOP” or “STOP”.

The paid channel “Love” can be disabled either by calling the operator at 0611 or in the Personal Account and in the “My Beeline” application.

Among the automatically connected services, the most common types of incoming paid content listed below are: The easiest way to disable them is by calling service numbers:

Information content “Currency rates” is deactivated by calling 068422330.
Paid content “General Horoscope” will be disabled by calling 0684211525.
Information on the paid subscription “Fact of the Day” will stop coming after calling the number 0684211646.
The user can make “love predictions” inactive by calling the number 0684211640.

Disabling paid incoming content by calling a service number or sending an SMS with the word “STOP” is good because Beeline Internet is not needed for these actions.

Attention! It doesn’t matter what tariff you have - all these methods work on any plans.

Without “extra” advertising, but within the time limits established by the Law, operators organized the possibility of opening a second account to pay for content services. Appeared updated descriptions payment and replenishment schemes, you can already understand how it will all work. And how much will this help (if it helps) us to avoid unexpected expenses.

Set of measures

Since the official launch of the changes (May 1), many publications have managed to “check in” on this burning topic, but in an abstract and unclear manner, in general terms. We have preview and the general scheme of interaction between participants were published on April 30, you can read the review. On the eve of the introduction of the “second account”, it was possible and necessary to discuss this issue from the perspective of new legal requirements to understand what to expect and how operators can maneuver in the current situation. Having understood general scheme, it is easier to compare specific solutions with it.

All operators opened a second account to pay for content. More precisely, they foresaw and organized the possibility of opening such an account. I specifically emphasized that the Law does not oblige operators to open this additional account for all subscribers in a row. In practice, everyone followed exactly this path: “by default” everything remains as it was and the subscriber is required to take initiative plus independent actions in order for this special account to be opened. The achievement is that now the operator does not have the right to refuse to open such an account, and is also obliged to ensure technical feasibility his establishments. Here, superficial publications did a disservice to users by announcing “new security” and radical measures to combat fraud. Surely many rejoiced and calmed down with a feeling of deep satisfaction. Without realizing that nothing will be “protected” by itself, this requires performing certain body movements. Moreover, the “body movements” are correct, and not anyhow; we’ll talk about the specifics a little lower.

The second important achievement is widespread implementation AoC (Advice of Charge). Having ordered content, the user mandatory receives information about the price of the service and must confirm the order. It looks like the operators will go for wide use AoC as standard preventive measure. Previously, AoS was used only as a “club” and effective measure a short-term measure of influence on a completely stealthy or obstinate content provider. Indeed, after turning on AoC, even on just one or two short numbers, any content developer instantly became “silky” and readily rushed to punish thieves and eliminate “shortcomings”, if only this hated AoC would be turned off on him as soon as possible.

For whom and against what?

The slowness of legislative initiatives has long been the talk of the town, but this time there should be some sense. It’s no wonder that content creators bitterly complain about their fate and are outraged by unfair legislation. For example, Mr. Ovchinnikov, CEO of i-Free, in an interview with Vedomosti www.vedomosti.ru complained that now more than half of subscribers cannot receive their valuable horoscopes, jokes and other “pussy”. They, poor people, simply do not understand what and how to do now; the process of purchasing and receiving content has become lengthy and completely incomprehensible. You can sympathize with the sufferers, but less than 20% of the “buyers” of content are such. The remaining 80-85% acquire a valuable product by accident, out of ignorance or with light hand scammers. Which, in fact, is what the entire content “business” is based on.

The sad thing is that good and correct legislation is a little late. Income from premium SMS to short numbers is already stagnating; without the caring “help” of smartphone Trojans, “content producers” would be sad. And the Trojans will cope with any formidable AoS, because modern models they know how to intercept this nasty thing very well incoming SMS and generate correct answers. But a considerable number of small content “partners” will suffer in any case, which is nice.

I am not trying to suggest that the measures being taken are useless or ineffective. It’s just that today content fraud is confidently migrating into the Internet space with its Web clicks, “customized” landing pages and other cellular joys. And the most professional thieves are already losing interest in the content, preferring to engage in more complex but profitable transactions with bank accounts. However, the Trojan messengers will continue to reap their harvest for a long time, and there are plenty of others willing to profit. Therefore, we will need a second account to pay for content. We will talk about the features of the “design” of this second account.

The second one is not superfluous

I will not quote official wording and describe all the details in detail; I will spare the readers’ time. If anyone needs clarification, the text contains all the necessary links. I'll try to stop only at specific features, which would be nice to take note of.

MTS. The mention of the second account “lit up” in the “Short number services” subsection of the “Entertainment and information” section. Logical. There are no details on the site; they suggest following the link that leads to the pdf file “Procedure for the provision of Content services” in its updated version, dated May 1st. It's only six pages of small print, but that's okay. The most interesting.

"4.2. Disabling the Periodic Content Service is carried out by the Subscriber independently using the interfaces determined by the Operator. More information about the interfaces for refusing to receive such a service can be found on the Operator’s Website www.mts.ru in the “Short number services” section, on the “My subscriptions” portal, or by calling single number 88002500890. The Subscriber’s unilateral refusal to receive the Periodic Content Service is considered to be the Subscriber being blocked for more than 30 calendar days.”

The clause regulates the provision of our beloved subscriptions. If you have caught an infection, the interface will help you. If you yourself, or a child, or another relative managed to grab content subscriptions and rashly threw away the blocked SIM card, then after a month of your inaction all the content crap should fall off on its own. This disease is not lifelong and is not inherited.

5.3. Payment for Content services provided by the Operator with the involvement of Content providers (except for services provided through a single portal of state and municipal services) is carried out from a Separate Personal Account (if any), in the absence of a Separate Personal Account - from a Personal Account. Payment for other Content services is made from the Personal Account.

6.1. A separate personal account is created by the Operator on the basis of a written application from the Subscriber (hereinafter referred to as the “Creation Application”).

6.2. A separate personal account is created by the Operator within 10 days from the date of acceptance of the Application for creation from the Subscriber. Upon creation of a Separate Personal Account, the Subscriber receives an SMS message to the Subscriber Number specified in the Application for Creation containing information about the creation of a Separate Personal Account indicating the Virtual Number.

6.3. Replenishment of a Separate Personal Account can be carried out using the Virtual Number/Separate Personal Account Number using the methods provided for replenishing the Subscriber Number/Personal Account Number.

6.4. Checking the balance of a Separate personal account can be done by dialing Subscriber number with a separate personal account USSD command *100*103# or through the Internet assistant/Virtual manager.

6.5. From the moment of creation of the Separate personal account until its closure, payment for Content services provided by the Operator with the involvement of Content providers (with the exception of services provided through a single portal of state and municipal services) is carried out from the Separate personal account.

6.6. Closing of a Separate Personal Account is carried out by the Operator on the basis of a written application from the Subscriber to close a Separate Personal Account (hereinafter referred to as the “Closing Application”).

6.7. A separate personal account is closed by the Operator within 10 days from the date of acceptance of the Subscriber’s Application for Closure. Upon closure of a Separate Personal Account, the Subscriber receives a corresponding information SMS message to the Subscriber Number specified in the Application for Closure.

6.8.5. When changing the Subscriber number with a Separate personal account, the Virtual number assigned to the Subscriber changes (new Subscriber number +7-9AA-BBB-CC-DD, new Virtual number +7-1AA-BBB-CC-DD). Upon change of the Virtual number, the Subscriber receives an SMS message indicating the new Virtual number. From the moment the Virtual Number is changed, replenishment of the Separate Personal Account must be carried out using the new Virtual Number.

6.9. Conditions for providing the free “Content Ban” service on a Subscriber number with a Separate personal account:

6.9.1. Submission by the Subscriber of an Application to create a Separate Personal Account entails disabling the “Content Ban” service on the Subscriber number for which such an application was submitted.

6.9.2. If a Separate Personal Account is financially blocked on

The subscriber number for which such a Separate Personal Account was created is activated for the “Content Ban” service. This service is activated for the period that the Separate Personal Account is financially blocked. After the specified period, the “Content Ban” service is disabled.

6.9.3. Self-connection and disabling the “Content Ban” service by the Subscriber if there is a Separate Personal Account on the Subscriber Number.”

In simple words:

If the second account is not created, then everything remains as it was and the content is paid from the main account. This applies to all operators, and I will not mention this feature anymore.
The second (content) balance differs from the main one by the first digit of the code (“1” instead of “9”). If the main number changes, then the second number also changes.
To connect a second number, you must visit the office and present your passport and face that matches the photo of the owner of the number; the second account will be connected within 10 days. The second account is also disconnected upon application and also within 10 days.
When the second number appears, the “Content Ban” service, if activated, is automatically disabled and it becomes impossible to connect it. As I suggested in the last review: “...Roughly speaking, by creating a separate account for paying for content and depositing money into this account, the subscriber assumes full responsibility for the fate and safety of this money, the operator can “wash his hands of it.”
If you have put an additional account into financial blocking, then “Content Ban” will be connected to your main account automatically; when the second account leaves the block, “Content Ban” will be disabled. As far as I understand it's simple technical feature implementation. To during the period financial block of the second account, money for content did not begin to be debited from the main balance.

Another question is how to replenish this additional account. Easy to write “...by the methods provided for replenishing the Subscriber number/Personal account number”, but does the ATM or payment terminal know about this? It is not a fact that the replenishment of the number +7 116 1234567 will be “swallowed”, and it is not a fact that even what is swallowed will reach its destination. However, for now these are all theories, it will be possible to check in a few days, when this second account is registered, formalized and connected.

Beeline. You can read the description of the second (content) account. Finding this section on the Beeline website turned out to be a non-trivial task, I shamefully failed. I take some comfort in the fact that the support service also couldn’t cope with the quest, and even in the Beeline office, after lengthy searches/consultations, for some reason they printed out half a kilo of descriptions of the service for me “ Mobile commerce" Along with instructions for paying for applications in Google Play, so that I have something to do and I don’t return to them longer with stupid questions about the second account. Although, they could have focused too much on the procedure for creating a special advance account It is on a postpaid tariff that is also an option. It doesn’t matter, in the end a kind person sent a link. Actually, the description:

A separate personal account for paying for the services of Providers.

Payment for services from a separate personal account allows you to control the costs of information and entertainment services on short numbers provided by the Operator with the involvement of Content providers. When the Subscriber contacts the Operator, a separate personal account is activated for the Subscriber to pay for information and entertainment (content) services provided with the involvement of Content Providers. At the Subscriber's request, a separate personal account can be automatically replenished from the main balance in the event of insufficient funds in the separate personal account to pay for the service. The separate personal account number corresponds to the subscriber number, but the first digit of the number changes from 9 to 6. For example, if your number is 9031234567, then your separate personal account number is 6031234567.

Connection and management of a Separate personal account:

The command for connecting a separate personal account without auto-replenishment is *110*5062# (the request is free). Connecting a separate personal account with auto-replenishment is possible through your Personal Account. Topping up the balance of a separate personal account is possible through payment terminals. Checking the balance of a separate account - *622#. The command for transferring funds from the main balance to the additional balance is *220*(amount)#. The command for transferring funds from a separate personal account to the main one is *222*(amount)#. The command to disable a separate personal account is *110*5060# (the request is free).

Since last year, any cellular subscriber can create a separate account for content. And you don’t have to be afraid of accidentally “getting money.” But not everything is so simple...

Since May 2014, according to federal law, all operators must provide the opportunity for subscribers to open a “second account for content,” which was done. The idea behind the innovation is to protect against fraudulent charges from unscrupulous clients of content providers. Simply put, from a number of scammers who either slip you a “subscription” when you visit a web page, or something else. That is, write-offs for content (honest or “scam”) should not take the main account into the red and lead to a sudden blocking of communication.

If a subscriber has a content personal account, his expenses for communication services will be debited from the main personal account, and expenses for content will be debited from this very “second account”. However, there is a “trifle” - payments for subscriptions and other content from the operator itself can still be made from the main account. But the second account will protect against unplanned monetary losses due to the fault of content providers. From this account they can only write off what the subscriber specifically put into it to spend on pictures/subscriptions and other things.

In addition, the content score cannot be “in the red.”

The names of the second account service are different for each operator and, I must admit, searching on the sites took me quite a lot of time. None of the operators explicitly advertises this opportunity, so it is not surprising that the number of subscribers with a “second account” is negligible. Even though “their” content can be paid for from the main account, none of their operators seem to be interested in promoting the option “imposed” on them by federal legislation. After all, unlike MNP (transition to another operator with its own number), in principle there can be no profit for the operator from the “second account”.

The mechanism for “opening” an account for content is implemented most simply by Beeline and MegaFon, but MTS and Tele2 require an office visit and a 10-day period. “Beeline” clearly “overdid it” by introducing the ability to auto-replenish a second account from the main one - an extremely dangerous thing if you “get” into fraudulent activities, however, auto-replenishment is a separate service and “in your right mind” you shouldn’t connect it - in fact, when connecting auto-replenishment, there is no point in connecting a second account at all.

The easiest way to manage a second account via USSD commands is with MegaFon and Tele2, which created a separate menu for this - by remembering all one command, you get access to all types of “working with the account”.

With Beeline and MTS it is possible direct replenishment second account through numerous payment systems, since along with opening an account the subscriber receives additional number, distinguished by the first digit. I want to believe that this works.

However, all this requires testing, and judging by the operators’ websites, it looks quite convenient, if you do not take into account the need to initially visit the office of two operators. Although I activated the service in my Personal Account on “my Beeline numbers” and forgot about it. The second bills are zero and I am not afraid that my family and I will “get into trouble” with something.

"Beeline" - "Additional balance for payment for services of Content Providers"
Connecting a second account is possible with the command *110*5062# or through the “Personal Account” - in the “services” section.
Topping up your second account is possible as a “regular” number - the difference from your number is in the first digit: instead of “9” it will have a number starting with “6”. Command to connect additional balance without auto-replenishment - *110*5062#. Transfer funds between accounts and check balance via USSD commands (there is no separate menu).
I was able to find the description on the operator’s website only by searching

MTS – “Virtual number”
There is no description on the site, it is available in a pdf file in the Information and Entertainment / “Short Number Services” section. In accordance with the description, opening a second account is possible upon written application. The second account will have a virtual number by which it can be topped up through payment systems: the difference from your number is in the first digit: instead of “9” it will have a number starting with “1”. Balance check - *100*103#. As stated in the rules, it is possible to view the balance on the “second account” through your Personal Account, but for this you need to connect free service“Manage numbers” and, as it were, “see another number.” Managing the second account through the “SMS assistant” and “” Mobile assistant" impossible.
Link to a pdf file written by lawyers for lawyers.

"MegaFon" - "Content account"
You can create a separate account for content services through the ussd menu *393*. In the same menu, you can transfer funds between accounts and request a balance. Internet control not detected. The description on the operator’s website also does not contain any mention of the commission for replenishing the content account and the ability to replenish it “directly” - only by transfer from the main account.
The description is located in the Services/Short number services section.

Tele2 - “Content personal account”
Opening a second account is possible only upon application at the office (within 10 days). Managing your *160# account, replenishing your account and returning funds from it - within the same *160#.
The description is located in the “Services/Communication” section (for some reason not in Entertainment).

And finally, the “amenities” table.

Beeline company, along with wide range tariff plans and an even larger family of additional services, it also offers its clients the services of content providers for use. This additional options, within which users can receive various newsletters on their devices: news, entertainment content, games and applications, etc.

It’s easy to guess that such content is not offered to subscribers for free, and you have to pay for it. In general, this is why the audience of regular users of the services of content providers is, to put it mildly, not very wide.

And all because very, very often subscribers “receive” paid subscriptions to all sorts of “jokes of the day”, “horoscopes” and “weather forecasts in Uryupinsk” without even giving consent to connect them. Simply careless owners of websites that Beeline subscribers visit from mobile phones monetize them through automatic subscriptions of subscribers to the content of the service.

Telecom operators really liked this situation, because additional income the same, but subscribers actively complained and in 2014 the Federal Law of July 23, 2013 No. 229-FZ “On Amendments to the federal law"About communication."

Its essence is this:

Each telecom operator in Russia is obliged to provide the subscriber with the opportunity to open a separate account to pay for the services of content providers (read paid subscriptions).

At Beeline, this option is called “Expense Control” or “Separate personal account for paying for Provider services.” We’ll tell you how to connect it and get rid of subscription costs.

How to prohibit paid subscriptions to Beeline: video instructions

Beeline "Cost Control" service

This option allows you to create an additional account balance for any subscriber, which will have one single purpose - the funds from it will be spent exclusively on paying for content services provided by Beeline partner providers. Thus, now subscribers do not have to worry that content services will “suck” all the funds from the main account and leave them without communication.

Activation/disconnection and use of the Cost Control service is free.

The operator positions this option as controlling children’s expenses from expenses on paid content and subscriptions, but nothing prevents any Beeline subscriber from connecting “Expense Control” to themselves.

As a result: If there is no money in the additional account of a Beeline subscriber, then no paid subscriptions to your main number will be activated. It's simple.

How to connect a separate account to Beeline

You can enable “Expense Control”:

Managing an additional balance to pay for Provider services

Of course, for the additional balance to work correctly, there must be money on it. Using the Beeline personal account, subscribers can set up automatic transfer of funds from the main account to the additional one. In addition, it is necessary to remember following commands:

*622# (to check the status of the additional account);

*220*100# (to transfer 100 rubles (you can enter any other amount) from the main account balance to the additional one). If you do this, subscriptions may be activated;

*222*100# (to transfer 100 rubles (you can enter any other amount) from the additional account balance to the main one.

In addition to using the requests described above, you can, of course, also set up an additional balance via the Internet, using your personal account, or a mobile application. With the help of these services, the setup procedure will even look simpler and more intuitive for most modern users.

What does an additional account number look like?

As for the information about what the additional account number looks like, intended exclusively for paying for the services of content providers, it does not differ much from the main phone number. The only exception is the first digit. If the main phone number is 9, then the additional balance should start with 6 instead of 9.

That is, if your phone number is 9031234567, then the additional balance number will be the same, with the exception of the first digit – 6031234567.

Once again. Remember: We enable the “Expense Control” option and do not replenish a new separate account, there should always be 0 rubles. We enjoy the absence of paid subscriptions to the services of content providers.