[LINK] Research phone calls - how many do you get?

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

Jan,

This may justify a note to either ACMA (www.acma.gov.au) or the TIO 
(www.tio.com.au). It's perilously close to the Japanese "wan-giri" scams.

RC

Jan Whitaker wrote:

> At 05:23 PM 28/11/2005, Robin Whittle wrote:
>
>> Thanks to those people who wrote to me about research phone calls.  Here
>> is what I made of these responses, with a separate mention of the
>> problem faced by one respondent who is the IT Manager for his
>> organisation.
>
>
> The latest scam:  calls to mobiles (yes, my mobile!), registers call 
> number on missed call, then you call to find out who it was. It was a 
> 'you have won' message and if I called this 1903 number at a cost of 
> $3, I would win a prize worth at least $40 [probably a discount to the 
> cost of some other service like carpet cleaning]. How's that for a 
> scam???
>
> You're free to cite if you wish, Robin.
>
> Jan
>
>
>
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