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possible scam
Please could you make your users aware of this possible scam
Please be aware that this weekend one a colleague received a missed call from a telephone number starting 070467….. when called back it passes you through to a messaging service.
The mobile user checked with BT discovered it is a new scam to pass you through three numbers and it costs about £100 for fifteen minutes. Please warn other mobile users of this 0704 code coming up on their phones and not to answer it. If it comes up as a missed call, it should be deleted.
The message starts, the caller is forwarding you to their messaging service, it rings for a while then it says they are not at that number we will try another one for you and so on.
This has been sent to Customer Services by a customer so I can not verify it but it is worth being aware of.
Kind Regards
Nicola Carter
Telephone Account ManagerVodafone Corporate
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5 Replies
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Thanks for that John,
Will watch for that
Peter
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Yes thanks for that john, I work solely from my mobile and always try and return missed calls so thats a timely tip
John
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I watched a bit of a program about the use of dialer’s that replace your normal dialup connection to the internet.
It was very interesting and one bloke claiming to be a fraud expert said that it is illegal for any service to pass on the proceeds of money earned fraudulently, he was refused to pay the bill and was waiting for BT to take him to court over it as he was confident he would win.
So this sound like a similar circumstance.
Steve
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Refusing to pay the bill is all well and good as long as its not your business line. BT will call the shots and restrict your service….. then no business!!
We had a similar issue with yellow pages, ended up having to pay a bill for colour we didn’t get, otherwise they wouldn’t accept our advertising for this year…. got you by the balls!!
Chris
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