Phone calls-police warning

[Jason]

POLICE WARNING. PLEASE READ.
Phone Fraud - Warning from the Police

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 line that costs approximately £20 per minute. Even if 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 a further 2 minutes you will receive a message informing you that you are not one of the lucky winners. The total bill by then will be £100. Since the calls are originating from outside the UK, BT and other telephone companies are left relatively powerless to act. The only safe solution is to 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'. PLEASE PASS ON THIS INFORMATION

Sue Kay
HR Manager
JST Lawyers
Direct Line: 0151 282 8953
Email: skay@jstlawyers.co.uk

[wayneyboy1942]

Thanks for the tip Jason! :)
I bet that BT and others could do more to stop this sort of thing if they realy wanted to! :(

[janet]

It's a good job i have a block on my phone and cannot be connected to premium rate numbers.

[Jason]

Originally Posted by wayneyboy1942

Thanks for the tip Jason! :)
I bet that BT and others could do more to stop this sort of thing if they realy wanted to! :(

Especially when BT are owned by a German company!!

[takersbabe]

i always let my answer machine pick up and they always put phone down straight away lol had a lot of these kind of calls

[Jason]

They're a bloody nuisance..............haven't had anything like that here!

Touch wood!

[jaseyboy]

press hash wen u pick up, n it will thnk your an answer machine

[grannyclaret]

thanks jasey ,,diddent know that ..

[Jason]

I never knew that either!!
Nice one!

[Mattylad]

A load of codswallop!

There is no way that pressing 9 on a home users phone can reconnect the call elsewhere.

you have to be using a PABX system etc to be able to do that.

This has been bought up many times before in many guises & has been shown to be a hoax.

The rest might be correct but NOT pressing 9 from a residential line.

[Brian]

Just another Urban myth, repeating these stories are just as bad as issuing a virus, they take up a lot of bandwidth and clutter other uses PC and emails.

Always check the information before posting warnings

Brian :zorro:

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

[Jason]

Coming from lawyers i thought that was a good enough warning for me!!

I need a lie down after watching that avatar for 2 minutes!!!

[Brian]

Lawyers are the last people you should trust Jason

Brian

[Mattylad]

I had the same advise from my head of personell after someone in the office reported it to her, it went through the entire company before I pointed her to the above site.

She never bothered to check her facts & refused to resend an email telling everyone it was a hoax.

[Jason]

Originally Posted by Brian

Lawyers are the last people you should trust Jason

Brian

There is that i suppose!!