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Hi All

I have just in the l;ast few mins, actually it was at 14.47hrs on the phones 1471 had a call congratulating me as I had won a "fantastic" carribean cruise. All I needed to do was press 9 on my telephone key pad, reapeat 9 on my telephone key pad. That is what the lady with the really bad american accent said. heaven knows what would have happened if I had pressed 9, repeat press 9 on my telephone key pad. it just goes to show between IVA application stress, annoying emails asking me to apply to be debt free the easy way and junk mail as well as everything else I am now to be bombarded with phone calls.

My advice do not press 9 repeat do not press 9.


Cheers all



Janderson


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I'm sure some people are put on this earth just to cause misery to others.

I hope you are okay X [:X]

You usually find with those phone calls that you are put through to premium rate number and the call will cost you a fortune!

It's obviously a scam anyway (unless you have entered a competition!) and will probably involve you having to send money (admin fee!!!!!) and then nothing will transpire.

Best left well alone as you said

I seem to get those calls all the time for holidays and mobile phones very annoying. They always show up as international so I just ignore them

There's a lot of nonsense doing the rounds about pushing No 9 and it gets connected to a Premium rate line, we had one a few weeks back and it said 'press 9' - anyway knew it could not do any harm, so pressed it and it goes to another different recorded message, so I put the phone down. We've got BT online account, so checked it over the last few weeks and nothing has shown up: "The Independent Committee for the Supervision of standards of Telephone Information Services are advising people that a current email doing the rounds is a complete hoax.
ICSTIS have taken hundreds of calls from worried people in the last few days who have had the email sent to them which warns them of a phone scam that could cost them dearly.
The content of the hoax email is as follows:

We have received the following information from our security advisors on a telephone scam current operating in the UK Note it is as likely to targeted to work, home or mobile phones The scenario is:-
Your phone rings and you receive a recorded message; Congratulations. We are calling to advise you that you have won an all expenses paid trip to <an exotic destination>.
Please press 9 now to hear further details.
If you press 9, you'll be connected to a premium line that bills in the region of £20 per minute.
If you press 9 and connect, even if you disconnect immediately, the other end will stay connected for a minimum of 5 minutes - at a cost to you of £100 - the message lasts for 11 minutes. The final part of the call asks you to key in your postcode and house number (which has other serious considerations) and then, after a wait of a further two minutes, responds with the message:
Sorry, you are not one of the lucky winners. and disconnects, adding a further £260 to your bill! Unfortunately the calls are originating from outside the U.K. and as such BT and other providers are relatively powerless to act. The only safe solution is to hang up before the message prompts you to press 9

ICSTIS have confirmed that a £20 per minute tariff could not exist and the telephone system could not be rigged in such a way that this could ever work.

People who get the email are advised to delete it immediately, without forwarding it to anyone.

http://itvibe.com/news/1098/

Last week I also received a phonecall informing me that I had won a cruise and asking me to press 9, at that point I put the phone down. I explained to a friend at work about the call and it turned out he had received the very same call.