New kind of money making techno fraud?

Jolly_Roger

We have started to get random SMS messages sent to our landline from BT. The service is entirely automated and is run from an 0845 number. Essentially, and usually in the middle of the night, a message is left on the ansaphone. When you retrieve it a mechanical voice says that a voice message has been left for you. You are given three options, of which I is to listen to the message, which you invariably do. The message (which is read by a computer generated voice) is sometimes obscene, sometimes not. I got a very rude one left last night and was almost about to ring back on the number which the BT mechanical voice says it came from and complain when I twigged that this would almost certainly be a premium rate number and that I would be charged a bomb!
Am I right? Is anybody else getting these types of call?
By making the caller angry and getting them to ring back, I suspect somebody is making a packet.

danmed

They are probrably making money from u just listening to the message as it would have to dial into a mailbox probraby through a premium number

fatblokexl

you can text any landline and get the comp gen voice who reads it out, its a good laugh.
don't know of any scam to try and get money but very possible if the message contains another number to call.

avoid like the plague