UK phone users - Hit by Premium Rate Prank Call?

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I just got a prank call from 07040898103, thinking it was someone trying to get in contact with me, i called back, only to be greeted with a computerised voice! When i hung up i found out it charged me £1.50 for the call!

I feel pretty helpless, not sure what i can do, if there is any consumer watchdog about such things or not.

Has this happened to anyone else?

ajx, Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Not exactly, but we did get a mysterious premium phone call charge which I thought was one of those internet re-dialler scams, but I don't know. Sixteen quid, so you got off lightly.

Yes, you can report it, but there doesn't seem to be much they can do because you do whatever you do to make the call 'voluntarily'.

It is a heavy bummer. I was bracing myself for a ten million quid phone bill after that, but it was just the normal extortion.

PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Thursday, 7 October 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)


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