Clever scam

If I get such a card it always says that they'll try to deliver on such and such a day, some state the sender.

I'd be very suspicious of anything which had neither statements.

Mary

This has been going on for ages.

Mrcheerful

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Oh, I had one of them a year or two ago. Just sent a scan of it to Trading Standards and let them deal with it. Also rang ICSTIS to get them to bar the premium rate number, which apparently they did straight away.

Didn't seem remotely plausible.

What's ICSTIS?

Mary

Stuart

"Mary Fisher" typed

Google is your friend.

It's the premium rate services regulator.

I confess to doing this when my burglar alarm went off unprovoked one December 23...

I never have.

That won't happen here.

No alarm :-)

Mary

Thanks, bookmarked!

Mary

Silly of me to imagine that this was new, or that anyone on here would be taken in by it :-) If the scammers' card said they would attempt to re-deliver the following day, and simply showed the phone number without inviting you to ring it, they might get a better haul. At £15 a hit they don't need too many

"Mary Fisher" typed

I only have an alarm because the previous owners had one fitted.

I don't have the guts to get it removed and the maintenance contract is £100 + VAT per year. The insurance premium reduction I get for it is minimal...

I suspect that there may be another scam around which I haven't met before - I was working at a friend's house when the phone went and it was a Reverse Charges call - I said No because I couldn't think of anyone likely to phone him that way, and it did turn out that he has received another one of these recently - and refused it too.

Not sure how the economics of it would work out but they are bound to be against you !

Rob

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To the tune of at least GBP3.48. Can't quite see any monetary gain for the calling party though

Chris.

But when you're sked if you'll accept a transferred charge you're given the name of the caller. Well, I ALWAYS have been.

A fake caller wouldn't know which name to give.

Mary

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What's up, Mary, Google fallen off the net today?

No, but I've had distracting problems today, one was sorted by the bank and one by Zetnet but the postman hasn't solved the other ...

So I gather, it's a splendid site and now in my Favourites, thanks to someone who got in before you :-)

Mary

Assuming they could keep you on the line for 10 mins!

You regularly use Usenet, so nothing new there.

I'm confused by that as well. What happens if they are calling from premium rate number? Does the system charge you as if you had called them perhaps?

John