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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, tom wrote: > >> kevin wrote: >>> ... >>> Can I suggest a New piece of Hardware or Linux Based phone that when a >>> caller phones and asks to speak to "the Owner Of The Business?" wanting >>> to Sell them Some cut price Utility. I say "Please Hold whilst I >>> transfer you......" to a 0870 or some such premium rate number that will >>> >> I know the mobile phone network can be legally used to access your bank >> account for services you didn't request but on the PSTN you only pay the >> call you initiated - so you, doing the transfer, would pay for the 0870 >> number. Or has that changed without notice?? > > Nothing's changed. You can't be charged for an incoming call - unless > it's a reverse charge call, and then you're given the opportunity to > reject it. > >> I'm not sure the how these 'call us and we'll call you back and charge >> you £1.50 a call (when we ever we feel like it) mobile phone services' >> work legally but to me its like looking through a shop window and going >> home and finding all the stuff in their warehouse waiting on your >> doorstep with a huge hole in your bank account! > > It's done by sending you reverse charged texts. Originally invented as a > way of taking micro payments from you. Abused though by "subscription" > services... Read the small-print before texting a weird number to get a > ring-tone, etc. > > Gordon > I thought that was the case.. a lady at work insists that we get charged for receiving 'junk' faxes.. I did tell her that she was wrong, but there's no telling some people.. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpO/+AACgkQz3Av8JKgzxT6AgCff7ggkL7akEb0XUrAV/+bpsyr oPwAnRKRx5kduR/cdFUlNoFKD7fYqwdu =wnlb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html