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Phone scam detailed in the sunday world

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  • 07-03-2004 5:09pm
    #1
    Our man in Havana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,476 ✭✭✭✭


    Was reading about the phone scam in the business section of the sunday world. It says that you get a missed call from a number starting with 0709.

    The victim calls the number and it costs €75 a min.

    Surely this is nonsense as the dearest calls are about €6 a min?

    Any comments?


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    #2
    spongebob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,143 ✭✭✭spongebob


    It is complete ****e . The only phone scams in Ireland are the porndialer group 13 number on Eircom for €3 a minute and the spoof texts that 'ínvite' you to repsond to a 1580 number on the grounds you won something, about €3 a minute again.

    The €6 numbers are Sat phones like Inmarsat

    The 070 myth comes from the UK where the calls actually cost about UK 0.30 a minute .

    M


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    sceptre
    Registered Users Posts: 19,608 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Complete hokum like Muck said.

    Snopes even have a recent page all about it. And obviously it's a variant on this hoax. Did the Sunday World actually report it as fact? (if so do they have a "you are an poor excuse for a 'journalist'" email address?)


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