070 One Ring Scam.

jhp

"PhonepayPlus, the phone-paid services regulator, has launched four separate investigations following complaints from members of the public.
The complaints relate to consumers receiving missed calls to both landlines and mobiles from 070 prefixed numbers. These calls are terminated after one ring which prompts the consumers to call back. Depending on the service, consumers have reported hearing a continuing recording of a ringing tone, or have been connected to a voicemail messaging facility, upon callback.
Having contacted the network operators through whose networks the four services operate, PhonepayPlus has been advised by those networks that the service providers for each individual investigation, responsible under the PhonepayPlus Code of Practice to be:

• H. Navaneeth
• K. Felix J. Paul
• T. Jaya Kandan
• Mr Jaswinder Singh

Due to the very serious nature of the alleged breaches of its Code of Practice, PhonepayPlus has invoked its emergency procedure to bar access to numbers associated with the four services with immediate effect.
The bar on access applies to all numbers on which the four services have been operating. In addition, all revenues payable to the four service providers have been withheld by their individual network operator pending the outcome of the investigation"


http://www.phonepayplus.org.uk/news/articles/nr_20081211.asp

mikegahan

Thanks for that advice. It is shocling the scams people can pull in the UK telecomms market. Logically this sort of conduct is theft, eg obtaining money by deception. These people should be prosecuted forthwith