Anyone know if this is true or not?


Dear All,

We have been advised of a telephone fraud currently in operation - this applies to home and work telephones, landlines
and mobiles.

If you receive one of these calls, upon answering the telephone you will hear a recorded message congratulating you on winning an all expenses trip to an exotic location. You will then be asked to press 9 to hear further details. If you press 9 you will be connected to a premium rate number that costs approximately £20 per minute. Even is you disconnect immediately, it will remain connected for a minimum of 5 minutes costing around £100. The final part of the call involves you being asked to key in your postcode and house number, which has other serious consequences. After further 2 minutes you will receive a message informing you that you are not a winner. This will also cost £100.

Since the calls are originating from outside the UK, BT and other telephone companies are left relatively powerless to act. The only safe thing to do is HANG UP before the message prompts you to dial 9, even safer HANG UP on any unsolicited 'free offer calls'.

There is another scam operating on mobile phones as well. A missed call comes up. The number is 0709 020 3840 the last four numbers may vary, but certainly the first four will remain the same. If you call this number back you will be charged £50 per minute.

People have complained about their phone bills, once they have realised the cost of the call, but apparently this is completely legal. So beware, do not call back numbers beginning with 0709.

Regards,

IT Service Centre

 

Yep. Got email through via our Police at work. Must be proper one if it came from them.

 

It's a load of bollocks Steve

Maximum premium rate number is £1.50 and when you hang up the call is disconnected.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/mobile.asp

The missed call scam could be used on normal premium numbers tho

 

Load of rubbish, pressing 9 during a call cant start a new outgoing call.

 

Looks like our cops have been scammed as well then...
Sorry for the mis-info.

 

Thats not fooking hard

 

my home phone has rang a few times with that recorded msg in the last month or so and sum of my friends have had the same thing too but i just put the phone down

 

My boss had a missed call from 0709 as well before I got the email. Then he told me about the call. It only rang a couple of times.

 

It is true, this has also been about for agessssssssssss with this automated service.

Also beware of people claiming to have brokendown and asking to use your landline or mobile to call the aa or rac or something, they are calling there little premium line which is a fortune as soon as you connect (ie £50 or £100 )

 

Common one is a missed call, they ring you once and hang up, then you phone back, and it answers instantly and plays you a phone ringing, which you are paying a load of cash to listen to as its a premium rate number.

 

this is true for all you "adviseing" its not.
been going around for a few months and some lads i know in the barrow area have just had their phone bills for this.

IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR FOOKING TALKING ABOUT,SHUT THE FOOK UP SMART ARSE'S BEFORE SOMEBODY GETS A HEFTY PHONE BILL!!!!!!

 

pressing 9 when someone phones you cannot initiate a new outgoing phone call

 

what makes you think that then?

 

The fact that i used to be a programmer for cellnet and btmobile

 

Get stuff like this on the phone all the time! Just hang up straight away, have not had anymore problems with it up til now

 

FFS it's all fucking bollocks, this one has been doing the rounds for about 3 years now.

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Cheers guys

 

lol why do people always believe this!

Alex

 

so have we determind weather its real or not lol?

 

Cause TF wont follow his own advice:

IF YOU DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR FOOKING TALKING ABOUT,SHUT THE FOOK UP SMART ARSE'S