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mobile scam cost credit?

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  • 04-07-2011 6:52pm
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    honeyvale
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    if someone calls your mobile in a scam can you be charged? what value would it be to them to have you lose credit? a friend had 8 euro credit got a call and it went to zero?


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    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    honeyvale wrote: »
    if someone calls your mobile in a scam can you be charged? what value would it be to them to have you lose credit? a friend had 8 euro credit got a call and it went to zero?

    Would the value to them not be that they get the credit? I've heard of loads of people that have had their credit taken through a text that costs you money to revcieve it, I havent heard it done in a call though.


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    honeyvale
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    GarIT wrote: »
    Would the value to them not be that they get the credit? I've heard of loads of people that have had their credit taken through a text that costs you money to revcieve it, I havent heard it done in a call though.
    oh is that how it works?
    no it was a call and while on the call the caller put him on hold and he may have pressed call by mistake while on hold. would that do it if he mistakenly called the caller? But how could he call the caller? would the caller not be engaed calling him?

    in one link i read that if calls come from certain countries it costs us to take them. cannot find link now


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    GarIT
    Registered Users Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    honeyvale wrote: »
    oh is that how it works?

    in one link i read that if calls come from certain countries it costs us to take them. cannot find link now

    Yeah, thats how it works with the texts. I think on a mobile it costs to take a call from any phone outside of the Republic of Ireland.


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    jarvis
    Registered Users Posts: 1,497 ✭✭✭jarvis


    GarIT wrote: »
    honeyvale wrote: »
    oh is that how it works?

    in one link i read that if calls come from certain countries it costs us to take them. cannot find link now

    Yeah, thats how it works with the texts. I think on a mobile it costs to take a call from any phone outside of the Republic of Ireland.

    No. It doesn't call go receive a call unless you are the one roaming. All calls you receive while in Ireland don't cost you.

    Unless you get a call from the moon. But that's charger in lunar dollars and the exchange rate is really good at the minute.


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    GarIT
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    Could It have been a reverse charge call then?


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