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Posted

HAs happen to a few of my friends just be ware.......

Subject: FW: Mobile Phone Scam - it got one of these calls on Sunday so

watch out!

Importance: High

hey this ones actually true i got one of these calls the other day....

its a good thing im a lazy ***** and dont bother calling numbers that i

dont know back.. hehehe

Sent: Tuesday, 23 May 2006 12:34 PM

Subject: FW: Mobile Phone Scam - it got one of these calls on Sunday so

watch out!

Importance: High

Hi All

I missed a call at ridiculous 8am Suunday morning (what were they

thinking at 8am Sunday morning??) and it just so happens that the number

(03 8558 0556) it is on this list!

Sarah

xxx

>BE ALERT... IT IS HAPPENING...

>

>People are being targeted by a mobile phone call back scam.

>

>The scammers* call the mobile then hang up before it is answered. The

>scammer then relies on the curiosity of the phone owner to call the

number

>back to find out who was calling. If the number is called a recorded

>message tells the caller that they have won a prize and/or they are

>directed to phone a 1902 number which has a call rate of around $3 per

>minute.

>Numbers that have been identified as belonging to these phone scammers

>include:

>

> 02 8404 2235

02 8404 2296

> 02 8219 0500

> 02 8303 8320

> 03 8102 9565

> 03 8558 0556

> 03 8558 1441

> 03 8558 1442

> 03 8558 1443

> 03 8558 1444

> 03 8558 1445

> 03 8558 1446

> 03 8558 1447

> 03 9540 2950

> 03 9540 5101

> 03 9540 5189

>

>If you receive a call from one of these numbers do not call back.

There is

>no prize, just a hefty bill.

>

>If someone calls you and you're not available chances are they'll leave

a

>message saying who they are and why they're calling.

>

>* apparently the scammers are actually a registered Australian

marketing

>company & are not doing anything illegal so there is nothing the ACCC

can

>do to stop them.

>


Posted

these people should be shot. :angry:

i think ive been called by that number, but i didnt call it back coz it was a melbourne number...

Posted (edited)

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

they did that to my mums fone the other day and i called the number back!!! as soon as i heard they said i won something i hung up straight away!!.. wouldve been on the fone for 5 seconds tho..

how bloody annoying!

I heard about the melbourne numbers before but this was a sydney number and just thought my mum missed the call.. :(

Edited by Sportivo05

Posted

>back to find out who was calling. If the number is called a recorded

>message tells the caller that they have won a prize and/or they are

>directed to phone a 1902 number which has a call rate of around $3 per

>minute.

how does that work? If its being directed to 1902 number arent they being charged seeing we're only calling a normal land line?

eg if i divert my home phone to my mobile, my home phone is charged the diversion not the person calling.

Posted

Man stop scaring me. I called back the 03 8XXX XXXX number and it said to call another number which was a 1900 one. That was when I immediately thought scammers and hung up. I couldn't possibly be charged more than a local call rate for a land line number could I?

Posted

DAMN! im fine i never call back!!!

Posted

ARHH thats what its is lol

i got it a few months ago but instead of ringing on my mobile i rang on the house phone and it said what you wrote iNdCeNt.

I just got a recent one the other day didnt ring that time. my mum got it to ..

:ph34r:

Posted

ARHH thats what its is lol

i got it a few months ago but instead of ringing on my mobile i rang on the house phone and it said what you wrote iNdCeNt.

I just got a recent one the other day didnt ring that time. my mum got it to ..

:ph34r:

Wholly **** my number is in there!!! juuusst kidding. Thanks for letting us know guys.

Posted

Oh, My relative just got that this morning, and thought someone in Melbourne called her....Thanks man, I just told her not to call back....

What a scam...i think it was on TV a while back too....a lady called and wait and wait...end up paying $60.00 and she got this "mobile phone ringtone download"....this is stupid!

Posted

well eggbert called me from an unknown number this arvo and i called back not knowing who it was...

lucky it was him and not a scam!

Posted

Dman dodgy bastards.. i got a phone call like that too :angry::angry::angry::angry:

i actually picked up straight away and got a recorded msg saying you have won a prize.. then all i remember was blah blah blah and then i hung up.

i was like prize my fat *****, i didnt do anything.

OMG :o :o :o :o

i just another missed call..

and the number is similar to the ones above..

number is

03 9540 5187

man i just wanna meet one of these guys and give em a hinding.

so if i actually picked up the phone their actually getting charged for it. So if you can pick it up in time stay on the line for as long as you can. That'll show em :D

Posted

Just adding my name to the list..

copped one of these at 930pm one night.. didnt get to the phone, didnt ring it back

If i dont recognise the number and they dont ring back again i figure it wasnt important in the first place..

Posted

I got a missed call from one of those numbers yesterday afternoon.

Good thing I wasn't assed calling it back. :P

And good thing my parents don't know how to check missed numbers on their mobiles! :lol:

Posted

well eggbert called me from an unknown number this arvo and i called back not knowing who it was...

lucky it was him and not a scam!

eggbert is scamming u man .. he runs a few 1900 numbers !!

Thanks also for the heads up too !

Posted

i copped a call...rang once and they hung up..

i thought if they really wanted to talk to me they would ring back whoever they were....so i didnt call back

they didnt.....

number was 02 8404 2236

Posted

i copped a call...rang once and they hung up..

i thought if they really wanted to talk to me they would ring back whoever they were....so i didnt call back

they didnt.....

number was 02 8404 2236

Hey Thats my number :lol: :P

Posted

I just find it amazing that after all the pbulicity on this sort of crap, that not only are there idiots in this world that still try it, but that there are also idiots in this world that still fall for it.

How many times do there need to be emails, news items and public awareness saying that things such as 'you've won a prize' etc blah blah blah are all bogus.

The first give away to it should be that you never entered the competition to start with.

The second give away is that you usually have to call the 190X numbers to register for the competition, not respond to a prize.

Finally, the age old saying always applies, "IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, THEN THE ODDS ARE THAT IT PROBABLY IS...."

Anybody here that has had these calls, and realised the bogus-ness of it and not fallen into the trapp, good on you for picking up on it....

Posted

>* apparently the scammers are actually a registered Australian

marketing

>company & are not doing anything illegal so there is nothing the ACCC

can

>do to stop them.

>

Correct ... because voice is not deemed as being spam ... if it was txt it would be another story .... so anyway by all the telecommunciations laws these guys arent doing anything wrong ..... :angry::angry: <_< <_< <_<

Posted

it would be interesting to hear what service providers get the most of these calls

the only people i personally know who have recieved them, have all been with 3 Mobile...

Posted

it would be interesting to hear what service providers get the most of these calls

the only people i personally know who have recieved them, have all been with 3 Mobile...

Vodafone here and i've copped it

Posted

i copped a call...rang once and they hung up..

i thought if they really wanted to talk to me they would ring back whoever they were....so i didnt call back

they didnt.....

number was 02 8404 2236

Hey Thats my number :lol: :P

Why did you hang up so fast lol

Posted

Two missed calls from this number today 02 8404 2296 at 2.01.29pm and 2.01.20pm

Thanks won't waste my money ringing back. On Optus by the way.

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