The message from "John" contains these words:
I don't think you can call from a premium rate number.
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17 years ago
Clever scam
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17 years ago
I understood you got billed £15 when the recorded message started. Maybe that was scaremongering
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The maximum price that a premium rate line can change in this country is £1.50/min:
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17 years ago
Thanks. Not so clever after all then.
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17 years ago
I didn't realise there was a maintenance contract too!
That's three weeks of wine with dinner!
Mary
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17 years ago
"Mary Fisher" typed
I could give up the maintenance contract. (I didn't have one the first 4 years I had this place) but then I'd be on my own should it malfunction again. It was horrible when this last happened, and I don't care for a repeat...
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The message from Stuart Noble contains these words:
Indeed it was scaremongering. I forget what the highest rate is but it's about £1.50/min or somesuch.
If they really wanted to nobble you they'd make it an international call!
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17 years ago
=A32.50 a min, it was on't telly only last night !!
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17 years ago
The message from "Staffbull" contains these words:
ICSTIS's own wibble still reckons it's £1.50 and since it's them that enforces it I know which I'd believe.
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17 years ago
It's one of these cons. Without one you don't get the insurance 'discount'. I've got alarms all round about - presumably on service contracts, since they have names on the bell boxes. And constant false alarms. My self installed one has never triggered falsely.
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17 years ago
Yep, TV prolly putting a stretch on it!
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17 years ago
Aye, the highest I can find in the BT Price List is:
p0 - Calls to Premium Rate Services 28.06.1995 127.65 149.989 ff21 - Calls to Premium Rate Services 01.07.2003 127.70 150.048
p0 is a per minute charge, ff21 is a fixed fee.
Of course this for BT land lines, mobiles and other landline providers have their own price lists.
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17 years ago
Oh come on, if it was on telly it MUST be true.
Mary
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17 years ago
The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:
Radio 4 said £1.50, too. That clinches it for me.
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17 years ago
Hurrah!
You will have mail,
Mary
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17 years ago
The message from "Mary Fisher" contains these words:
Ah, the postie came!
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17 years ago
He comes every day - but not always with such an exciting delivery!
Mary
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17 years ago
Not only that, but if you declared you have it, and get an insurance reduction for it you are expected to always use it. If you don't on the day you are burgled you might have some difficulty with your claim.
Usual advise here it to tell the insurance company that you do not use the alarm and you don't want a discount for it.
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Well, only yesterday I received two calls that my caller ID said was
090xxxx, and they were silent calls. I assumed that scam relies on the curious calling them back just to see who it was.Phil The uk.d-i-y FAQ is at
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17 years ago
AIUI with ISDN you can spoof your outgoing CLI so the callee gets to see a "presentation number" of your choice.
Yes, and of course they can easily be automated nowadays just to call for a second or two so that a lot of people (like us, with the phone in the next room) don't get to the phone in time. So they don't pay for a successful call, if they pay much at all, anyway. :-(
DG