Text message saying "Call me back urgently"

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Mrs F got a text message this morning from 0056322553757 saying "call me noow ugeently". She showed it to me and I did a quick spot of Googling. As suspected, it's a scam - presumably a premium-rate phone number you call back. See this thread on Boards.ie
 
just don't respond to or worry about "call me now urgently" requests from strange numbers
 
...or if you are in a really evil mood ....

Find someone you've been wanting to play a trick on and use their phone to call back the international premium rate number
 
This is doing the rounds again, two members of the family got the same message yesterday and to-day.
 
I got that text twice today, didn't notice it until just now. Hope it wasn't that urgent...
 
MrEarl said:
.. and when they do, put on them on hold for an extremely long time or else blow a whistle down the phone (assuming it's not a genuine call needless to say)
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Sorry to be a spoilsport, but that's a very bad idea. Many of these scams count on you staying online for a few seconds, after which they dial you through to a premium line (even if they called you), costing you a lot of money.
 
turnipcats said:
which they dial you through to a premium line (even if they called you), costing you a lot of money.
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I don't think that this is correct.

If you take a call, you can't be charged for it.

But if it is true, could you provide a link to some official site which shows this.

Brendan
 
Hi Brendan, sorry no I don't have a link to further information, but a couple of years ago there was a spate of such calls to me and family members on at least two different phones. On each occasion you'd answer the call, hear silence for a couple of seconds followed by dialling noises. On looking up the call details for my own phone I found some very odd charges that seemed to tally.
 
turnipcats said:
On looking up the call details for my own phone I found some very odd charges that seemed to tally.
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Did you check them out with your phone company?

You can be called for subscribing to text services, but that is a different issue and another source of scamming.

I haven't heard of it being possible to subscribe for incoming phone calls.
 
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