[plug] Mobile phone scam - Beware

[Senectus .]

> FWIW TripleJ's Hack just ran a story on this (or something similar, I
> missed the start :) about an hour ago - should be up on the podcast
> soonish. The guts of it was that it was happening, and that Choice
> says its bad, but the ACCC is refusing to say whether they're
> investigating it or not. Didn't hear much factual information aside
> from interviews with people who say "This should be illegal!1!!" etc
> etc etc.

the ACCC has learned from past mistakes, to not comment until it's
been through the legal vetters and sanctified.
I can't see how calling a normal number is going to cost you much, I
can see how listening to a message about how you need to call a 1900
number to claim a prize would cost you a small fortune.

Good luck nailing the buggers.

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