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Internet Dialling Fraud
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Thank God I'm on broadband. Although I like to think I wouldn't have fallen foul of this dialling scam, I know it's all to easy to do.
People are getting bills of over £1000 each! This is from the BBC Watchdog programme. They're wrong though. The people conned made the calls, they just didn't know they were making them. Cue BT trying to sting each one for as much money as possible.
Internet Dialling Fraud
13th April 2004
Since last week's report, 760 of you have been in touch about premium rate internet dialling scams. You've been conned out of £89,000 for calls you didn't make.
One viewer found she had to keep re-connecting whilst visiting a site. She discovered that she had been re-connecting using an 090 number which was registered to an adult site.
Another viewer explained to Watchdog she has to wait up to 4 months for ICSTIS (premium rate regulator) to investigate, and decide if she's liable for the bill.
Even an IT firm has been hit by this problem.
Posted by Mac McColgan on 15/4/04; 1:22:43 PM
from the dept.
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