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Note left on my car accusing me of chipping paint

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  • Cant you put the number on here. Its a fun way to make 250k MSE'rs aware of it :-)
  • ROY47
    ROY47 Posts: 559 Forumite
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    Yes post the phone number here

    250 ,000 people will ring the number and really p the person off after scratching their car :rotfl:
  • zagubov
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    Cant you put the number on here. Its a fun way to make 250k MSE'rs aware of it :-)

    Walks like a scam.
    Quacks like a scam
    Wonder if, maybe........................... it's a scam?
    There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker
  • unholyangel
    unholyangel Posts: 16,866 Forumite
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    Its all fun & games until someone loses an eye.
    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
  • scd3scd4
    scd3scd4 Posts: 1,180 Forumite
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    Keep the note and do nothing.


    99% of this is rubbish. I don't give most a second thought and it nearly always comes to nothing.
  • Crabman
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    070 and 076 numbers are regulated by ofcom however if they offer phone paid services or charge more than 10p a minute, then PSA can investigate.

    Which imbecile at the regulator allowed that to happen?!

    The majority of people associate "07" prefixed numbers with UK mobiles. They wouldn't necessarily realise it was premium until after the charges hit.
  • facade
    facade Posts: 7,685 Forumite
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    Crabman wrote: »
    Which imbecile at the regulator allowed that to happen?!

    Someone who is far cleverer than you or I, and who no doubt earns more in one hour than both of us put together earn in a month. ;)
    I want to go back to The Olden Days, when every single thing that I can think of was better.....

    (except air quality and Medical Science ;))
  • unholyangel
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    Crabman wrote: »
    Which imbecile at the regulator allowed that to happen?!

    The majority of people associate "07" prefixed numbers with UK mobiles. They wouldn't necessarily realise it was premium until after the charges hit.

    Well when mobiles were first released, they weren't structured like they are now and possibly (not sure on this part) the 070/076 might have already existed.

    Its been a while and I was young at the time but from what I recall, mobile numbers didn't have the first 7 in them. So they didn't all start 07. Dialling codes which were 01 didn't have the 1 either.
    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means - Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride
  • AdrianC
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    That was phONE day in 1995.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhONEday
  • glider3560
    glider3560 Posts: 4,115 Forumite
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    Crabman wrote: »
    Which imbecile at the regulator allowed that to happen?!

    The majority of people associate "07" prefixed numbers with UK mobiles. They wouldn't necessarily realise it was premium until after the charges hit.
    It's a bit like Jersey (01534) and Guernsey (01481). Normal UK 01 numbers ... but not included in most UK call packages.
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