Had the following in an email at work.
Just thought I'd share the knowledge.....

Please be aware of the following phone scam relating to home and work mobiles. Your phone rings and you receive a recorded message:
"Congratulations we are calling to advise you that you have won an all expenses paid trip too....Please press 9 now to hear further details"
If you press nine you'll be connected to a premium line that bills you in the region of £20 per minute. If you press 9 and connect, even if you disconnect immediately the other end will stay connected for a min of 5 minutes at a cost of £100, the message last 11 minutes.
The final part of the call asks you to key in your postcode and house number and then after a wait of a further 2 minutes responds with the message:
Sorry you are not one of the lucky winners and disconnects adding a whopping £260.00 to your bill.

In summary if you hear the beginning of this message do not connect!!!!

Thanks for that DB

Hmm Number 1 in the chart of email hoaxes.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/press9.html

Top 10:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/email/sophos/virusinfo.hti#VirusHoaxes

Don't spread it any futher please!!

Nomme

Originally posted by nomme
Hmm Number 1 in the chart of email hoaxes.
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/press9.html

Top 10:
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/diss/email/sophos/virusinfo.hti#VirusHoaxes

Don't spread it any futher please!!

Nomme
No problems Nomme. I'll know who to call the next time I recieve info of this variety.

SheffieldForums very own 'Hoax Buster'.

"When there's an email hoax, in your neighbourhood;
Who ya gonna call??? .............. Nomme"

:thumbsup: :P

This particular one may be a hoax, but recently a few people I know (and me) have been receiving phone calls that when answering there is only an automated voice trying to sell things. I know people who have had a number of answer machine messages a day from this - has anyone else experienced it?