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Thrasher:
Call centres use mobile's now. Not in a way you'd expect. Our tech support dept has a large bit of kit with 20 sims in it that detects you are calling a mobile and uses one of the 20 to raise the call. We know of other call centres which use banks of these to make *ALL* their outgoing calls.

It was a call centre - 99% certain. He'll ahve forgotton to untick/tick something related to a servicehis bank provides/recommends. Most likely ;-) I get them quite a lot despite being on the TPS register :(

sleeplessparadise:
Thanks for that Thrasher, feel a bit better about it now  :)

Oli-L:

--- Quote from: Steve110 on January 31, 2008, 12:37:25 ---Hmmm, that sounds a bit dodgy to me and has made me think about a call I got the other day...

I was at work so wasn't really interested in talking to the guy, but I got a phone call from a Mobile number and the fella didn't use my name, just came straight out and said he wanted to talk about my Three mobile contract...

Once I had assured him that in fact the number he had called me on was a Three PAYG number and my Three contract had actually been cancelled by myself about 18 months - 2 years ago, he said that he would update his 'system' and wouldn't bother me again...

Like I said, it didnt register at the time that it might be a scam, but looking back.... :-k


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Yeah i had the same thing happen, Had a bloke ring me and say he was from my contract suppler and how he could save me money if i changed talk plan,
I fell for it until he asked me for me home address and bank details, I said " you should have all the information on your system"
The reply i got from the end of the phone was "erm...erm.... our systems down at the moment i need to make a note and check them when its back up" It clicked then and i put the phone down straight away, Even tried to ring me back..!! Muppets  :roll:

Ja1983:
i had an email from "windowslive@yahoo.com"

.....because they needed my user name, date of birth, password to confirm my account was active...


i sent them a picture back of my rear end sporting a drawn on smile :D

Disco Matt:

--- Quote from: Ja1983 on January 31, 2008, 22:48:03 ---i had an email from "windowslive@yahoo.com"

.....because they needed my user name, date of birth, password to confirm my account was active...


i sent them a picture back of my rear end sporting a drawn on smile :D

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 :lol:

Problem is, you'll now get deluged with spam because they know your email address to be active!

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