Mobile Phone Scam

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Lord H is en route from Goodwood to Spain . In the course of his packing he has had time to inform the Mods of this and accordingly I post it on here .

You might like to post details of a scam that is well known by the mobile phone companies. A "firm" calling themselves TopTone sends out bundles of text messages to thousands of mobile phone users. The message says something like "Thank you for your ringtone order. You will be charged at £4 a week for the tones you have ordered. If you wish to cancel the order just ring 0906......."

Of course there has been no order placed and the calls that people make to cancel them cost £1.50 a minute. As I said, all the service providers know about the scam and can do nothing to prevent it. Any messages from these or other fraudulent "services" should be reported to ICSTIS on 0800 500212 ( a free call).
 
Maybe someone read this too but I cant quite remember where I did, it invloves the much publicized ICE campaign (In Case of Emergency) its a virus that looks in your mobile directory for the word ICE and then immobilizes the phone or something along those lines, I shall have to try and find the article.
 
Slightly different subject but I also heard something this weekend where on a Nokia phone, there is a number you can dial, and it will tell you the last time the police checked your phone records. Not sure if is is true though, as it sounds a wee bit far-fetched.
 
Originally posted by Kathy@Jul 31 2005, 07:19 PM
Slightly different subject but I also heard something this weekend where on a Nokia phone, there is a number you can dial, and it will tell you the last time the police checked your phone records. Not sure if is is true though, as it sounds a wee bit far-fetched.
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not really in these modern times the GCHQ (@CHELTENHAM :o I been in there a dozen or more times in a working capacity) traced that bomber who was arrested in ITALY via his mobby and getting on the Euro star too and contacting his brother......

They caught the OMAGH bomber in a very similar fashion too....

I have a communications receiver linked to my P/C cost a lot of money.... it gave me an insight as to what is going on around me it covers most things that go by air radio signals... you can even log on to a baby monitor in the local hospital :o 3 miles away as the crow flies....

If you have a concert being televised/recorded in the St David’s hall 4 miles away you can log on and listen to the producer camera men etc.... fire, ambulance, aircraft, shipping, coastguard, mobile phones, shuttle space walks, police no more as its now sent via TETTRA which is a digital signal but you still get VHF stuff from the police but its only motorway traffic control.... been an hobby of mine for years but don't now use as often as I used to! but if I can do this(as an hobby?) what’s the army secret service M I 5 M I 6 got then? :rolleyes:
 
Hard to believe the phone companies can do nothing about it. No doubt they'll be taking their cut.
 
Originally posted by an capall@Jul 31 2005, 11:59 PM
The Omagh 'bomber' has not been caught.
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O/K I'LL concede that but was refering to this below.............. these were traced by MI5-MI6 or...GCHQ.............. :o

On the 20th day of the trial, in his closing speech the prosecuting counsel Tom O'Connell told the court that there were "overt acts" proving that Mr Murphy conspired with the bombers to cause an explosion.


Colm Murphy: Only person charged in connection with Omagh bombing


He said Mr Murphy's mobile phone was used in Omagh at 1357BST on 15 February 1998.

A second mobile phone, allegedly borrowed by Mr Murphy from an unwitting employee, was used in the town at 1409 GMT, he said.

Fifty-six minutes after the second telephone call the bomb tore through Market Street, killing 29 people and injuring more than 200 others.

'Phones lent to terrorists'

Mr O'Connell said the prosecution had demonstrated that Murphy participated in a conspiracy to cause an explosion in Northern Ireland on the weekend of the blast.

"The form that conspiracy took was to loan two mobile phones to persons he knew, or contemplated, wanted those phones to carry out a bombing run to Northern Ireland.

"Those who carried out the bombing were undoubtedly members of a terrorist organisation, no doubt this entailed a much wider conspiracy."

He added: "There was no evidence that Mr Murphy knew exactly where the explosion was to take place. But the explosion to which he lent his aid was in fact that explosion in Omagh".


Case hinges on 'confession'

Mr O'Connell accepted that the prosecution case hinged on confessions Mr Murphy allegedly made to officers after his arrest.

Mr Murphy has said these admissions are fabricated.

Mr O'Connor also told the court that Mr Murphy's mobile phone was active in Banbridge, County Down, two weeks earlier where there was an explosion which injured 38 people including three police officers.
 
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