sebastian

Just read this on another BBS:


>
>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
>slightly 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 YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!!

Luke

Thats Brilliant.........!! That is a good earner Got me thinking!!


How do they set these things up etc\???