Another con trick

I am sure you are all familiar with the imitation scratch cards that appear in certain magazines and newspapers. You know. The ones where you appear to have won a two week holiday in Florida, just telephone this number at £1.50 per minute for a maximum of 6 ish minutes to discover you have won a plastic toothpick.

Well last night My wife received a text message, “you are the lucky winner of £2000. A friend has entered your mobile number into out competition and you are a lucky winner. Simply telephone this number +44 08708 XXXX XXXX charges at 10p per minute to claim your winnings.”

After a heated debate we decided that it is probably a con but out of curiosity we would ring the number. We get a cheerful female recorded voice“Welcome you are the lucky winner etc etc. To claim your £2000 you must first tell us your mobile number.” ,At this point we hung up. It was obviously a con. Just a variation on the scratch card theme.
They did actually give out the name of the company, and if I am not mistaken it is a company that also runs chatlines with a very dodgy method of ripping off the callers which involves knowing there telephone number to bill them retrospectively.

I am irritated and annoyed at the way these ‘companies’ flout the law and blatantly attempt to rip people off. Don’t forget this is not a scam from outside the UK but within. It is not a Spam e-mail but a Spam text !!

These people are ripping off anyone who is gullible enough to respond. They are just about legal, but in my opinion they are not legal because it is plainly a con trick. Maybe its time the police or the government started taking them on before they pollute society any further.