baz2003uk
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Registered: 6th Sep 03
Location: Wiltshire
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Below are details of a scam currently going the rounds. The police
have requested that as many people are alerted as possible.
Unfortunately it is a genuine scam.
Police Report.
The reason this is working so well is it plays on your good will!
Picture the scene:-
You are sitting at home and there is a knock at the door. On answering
it you are confronted by a respectable looking woman in a suit, who is
lightly distressed. She explains that her car has broken down further
down the road and she needs to contact her husband to come to her aid.
Is it at all possible to use your phone to call him?
You allow her to use the phone, but being the suspicious type you
stand with her as she makes the call. She dials the number, and asks
to be put through to Mr Smith / Brown / Stevens (Whatever). She holds
the line for about thirty seconds. She continues, "In that case can
you ask him to leave the meeting for a minute I need to speak to him
quite urgently." She apologies again and explains they are getting him
out of a meeting.
A couple of minutes goes by and she starts to speak to her husband.
She explains the situation to him, tells him what has happened to the
car, is annoyed because she now can't get to her meeting, and asks
what she should do now. She listens for a few seconds and then says,
"Well as soon as the meeting finishes can you come to Cardiff Road /
Leicester Road / Surrey Street (Whatever), where the car has broken
down. Another few seconds go by, "OK, I'll see you in about twenty
minutes then."
She put the phone down, and thanks you ever so much for your kind
assistance, even offering you a pound for your trouble, but of course
you decline, it's no trouble.
She leaves and everything is fine.
Or is it?
The day or week before knocking on your door she set up her own
premium rate line with a telephone company at the cost of about £150,
and she has dictated that calls to that number should be charged at
£50 per minute. She has dialled that number. The conversation she has
had with her "husband" is entirely fictitious, there is a pre-recorded
voice message on the other end to give you the impression she is
talking to someone. She has been on the phone for about five minutes,
that call just cost you £250, the majority of which goes into her
pocket, and the first you know about it is when you get your bill a
month later.
To rub a bit of salt into the wound,she hasn't even committed a
criminal offence. You've given her permission to use your phone. 5
occasions in Luton where this has been reported in the last couple of
weeks .
Would anyone reading this please pass it on to friends and colleagues
etc. otherwise it could cost someone a lot of money.
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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Shock its in Luton
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Joff
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Registered: 17th Oct 00
Location: Cambridgeshire
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It's all bullshit and about 5 years old 
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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these have been around for ages and its bullshit BT regulate the premium rate numbers and you cant charge that much per min. 1.50p min is about as high as it goes.
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Greg_M
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Registered: 2nd Sep 03
Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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yeah th only way you can charge more than about 1.50 per minute is to dial a number, or divert the call to outer mongolia or somewhere
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Dan B
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Registered: 25th Feb 01
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Quote:
Urban Myths and Legends
– these include the Premium Rate Phone Scam which is a warning being circulated among Neighbourhood Watch schemes in the UK that tells of a smartly dressed woman who calls at the door in some distress and begs to use your phone for a moment to call her husband as her car has broken down. After five minutes she thanks you and leaves. Some time later when the phone bill arrives you see you’ve been billed at £50 per minute. According to the UK regulatory body, ICSTIS, this is a hoax.
None of these are actually true...
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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its my mum
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russb
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Registered: 30th Oct 04
Location: chester-ish
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ur mum never asked to use the phone when she knocked at mine 
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3CorsaMeal
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Registered: 11th Apr 02
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thats her other scam
i'd go to the doctors if i were u 
[Edited on 16-11-2004 by 3CorsaMeal]
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CRB 553
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Registered: 5th Apr 02
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hahahahahaha
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Voyto
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Registered: 9th Feb 03
Location: Stafford
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drunkenfool
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Registered: 7th Feb 03
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altho my dad did get a dialer virus on his PC which left him with a £450 phone bill for a month :S
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ultra_corsa
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Registered: 12th Jun 04
Location: Luton
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yeh luton...omg...ur jokin....REALLY??? lol
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russb
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Registered: 30th Oct 04
Location: chester-ish
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i have been to the doctors, its the worst case scenario.....
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bet ur thinkin wtf
keep going down
IM PREGNUS 
[Edited on 16-11-2004 by russb]
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mobymaster
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Registered: 12th Sep 04
Location: Rawtenstall, Lancashire
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As above, BT regulate such lines and limit them to a "sensible" amount. Any line which is connected to an acutal person rather than a recorded message can only be connected once certain checks have been done, sumin to do with porn i think.
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Carl
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Registered: 9th May 04
Location: Jimmy Bennett's la la land.
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the worst rumour is that one about kebab shops/mcD's/every food place going. When someone says" a friend of mine had something to eat there and they found 5 races of cum in the burger" Then when you tell them its a load of bollocks it turns into an arguement. Thick bastards.
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3CorsaMeal
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quote:
Originally posted by CrazyCarlo
the worst rumour is that one about kebab shops/mcD's/every food place going. When someone says" a friend of mine had something to eat there and they found 5 races of cum in the burger" Then when you tell them its a load of bollocks it turns into an arguement. Thick bastards.
thats a load of bollox m8 
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Carl
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Registered: 9th May 04
Location: Jimmy Bennett's la la land.
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quote:
Originally posted by 3CorsaMeal
quote:
Originally posted by CrazyCarlo
the worst rumour is that one about kebab shops/mcD's/every food place going. When someone says" a friend of mine had something to eat there and they found 5 races of cum in the burger" Then when you tell them its a load of bollocks it turns into an arguement. Thick bastards.
thats a load of bollox m8
very funny
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Mattss Corsa
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Registered: 11th Jan 03
Location: Milton Keynes (BUCKS)
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Cheers matey, never herd of that one
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ljames555
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Registered: 2nd Sep 03
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this scam was acted on the bill tonight that someone had it done to them so maybe was or is true
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vibrio
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Registered: 28th Feb 01
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quote:
Originally posted by drunkenfool
altho my dad did get a dialer virus on his PC which left him with a £450 phone bill for a month :S
see that don;t happen with broadband MoFu
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