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04 October 2002, 09:41 AM
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For Your Information........If it's true.....
Below are details of a scam currently going the rounds in the UK. Our Security Centre have checked the authenticity of this and police have requested that as many people are alerted as possible.
Mellonie Police Report !
The reason this scam 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 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 apologises 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 puts 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.
Five occasions in Luton where this has been reported in the last couple of
weeks.
Below are details of a scam currently going the rounds in the UK. Our Security Centre have checked the authenticity of this and police have requested that as many people are alerted as possible.
Mellonie Police Report !
The reason this scam 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 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 apologises 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 puts 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.
Five occasions in Luton where this has been reported in the last couple of
weeks.
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04 October 2002, 09:58 AM
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Please, not again.
Your security people should check their references. Googling for practially any quoted phrase in this reveals the following:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoax...nsivecall.html
Northamptonshire police were forced to publish a retraction, too.
Finally, here's what the regulator says
Your security people should check their references. Googling for practially any quoted phrase in this reveals the following:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoax...nsivecall.html
Northamptonshire police were forced to publish a retraction, too.
Finally, here's what the regulator says
The following story has been circulated by e-mail in recent weeks.
If you receive any enquiries about this story, please note that it is not true. It is an urban myth:
* A £50 per minute premium rate tariff does not exist - the highest tariff available is £1.50 per minute.
* Service providers must choose a charging rate from the range offered by their network operator - they simply can't 'dictate' their own charging rates.
* ICSTIS has received hundreds of enquiries about this so-called deception but not one person has been able to produce a phone bill to support the story.
Please pass this information on to all enquirers.
Rob Dwight
Media & PR Officer
ICSTIS - The Premium Rate Services Regulator
If you receive any enquiries about this story, please note that it is not true. It is an urban myth:
* A £50 per minute premium rate tariff does not exist - the highest tariff available is £1.50 per minute.
* Service providers must choose a charging rate from the range offered by their network operator - they simply can't 'dictate' their own charging rates.
* ICSTIS has received hundreds of enquiries about this so-called deception but not one person has been able to produce a phone bill to support the story.
Please pass this information on to all enquirers.
Rob Dwight
Media & PR Officer
ICSTIS - The Premium Rate Services Regulator
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04 October 2002, 10:26 AM
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Quote from Jool's first post
Five occasions in Luton where this has been reported in the last couple of weeks.
Damn you are good, do you work for the Police
Quote from Jool's first post
Five occasions in Luton where this has been reported in the last couple of weeks.
Damn you are good, do you work for the Police
04 October 2002, 11:26 AM
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Like I said; if it's true..... I work in Copenhagen and this was a 'daft' e-mail I received from home.
I work for an Oil & Gas company, not BT, PTT or Tele DK, so what can I say guys;
Wish I were as wise as some of my fellow scoobynetters. I will endeavour to try harder!
Jools
I work for an Oil & Gas company, not BT, PTT or Tele DK, so what can I say guys;
Wish I were as wise as some of my fellow scoobynetters. I will endeavour to try harder!
Jools
04 October 2002, 12:12 PM
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when this was on here before, before, before..i told our IT security bloke as he was emailing everyone that it was true....he came back and told me he had checked it with the police himself and that i shouldnt get involved in IT security!!!! ****!
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Oh dear, shows how guilable I've been.
Yesterday, some old bloke came up to me while I was cleaning my car on the drive. Said he was in a spot of bother and did I know where the nearest phone box was. Immediately, my thoughts turned to this story and instead of offering him to use my phone (which, under normal circumstances I would have done) I directed him to the nearest phone box, about 5 minutes walk away (more like 10 mins at his pace).
Do I feel bad or what.
Yesterday, some old bloke came up to me while I was cleaning my car on the drive. Said he was in a spot of bother and did I know where the nearest phone box was. Immediately, my thoughts turned to this story and instead of offering him to use my phone (which, under normal circumstances I would have done) I directed him to the nearest phone box, about 5 minutes walk away (more like 10 mins at his pace).
Do I feel bad or what.
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