Premium Rate Phone Numbers

[Scorpion]

I've just had my bill in from Virginmedia and nearly sh*t a brick when I found out I had been charged £33 for two premium rate calls that niether myself nor my wife remember making!

My kids are grown up and have left home so I can't blame them. The calls were to 2 similar numbers, one at 3 in the afternoon and 1 at 4.15. The first one was for 15 minutes and cost £20 the second for 10 minutes and cost £13!

Virginmedia cannot tell me who the numbers belong to (no, but they expect me to pay for the b@stards)!

Do any of you guys know how I can find out whose numbers they are?

I'm more angry with Virginmedia for their apathetic attitude than anything else!

[RodLeach]

Just google the telephone number mate.

[madcampbell]

I take it your on broadband and not dail up ?

[Antony_James]

No way, av just googled my own number and found a site ( that i have never used before ) is advertising my old bike...

bearing in mind i sold this bike on the autotrader about 18 months ago this other site ( cars4sale4u.com ) has taken my bike and advertised it on their site with both my contact number on screen...


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Are they allowed to do that ? ... It says

(Cars4sale4u.com is an internet based service which gives car owners/sellers the opportunity to advertise their cars for FREE for 3 months on our website. All a seller needs to do is to email the details of their cars to sales@cars4sale4u.com and a text only advert of your car will be produced and included in our website)

av never emailed them, they stole the add off the trader ?

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cheeky gets

[Scorpion]

Googling the number didn't bring up anything Rod. But I Googled 'Premium Number Search' and it came up with this www.phonepayplus.org.uk.

That site works a treat so if you ever need to find a premium rate number try it.

(BTW it wasn't a porn number!)

[madcampbell]

No way, av just googled my own number and found a site ( that i have never used before ) is advertising my old bike...

bearing in mind i sold this bike on the autotrader about 18 months ago this other site ( cars4sale4u.com ) has taken my bike and advertised it on their site with both my contact number on screen...


...

Are they allowed to do that ? ... It says

(Cars4sale4u.com is an internet based service which gives car owners/sellers the opportunity to advertise their cars for FREE for 3 months on our website. All a seller needs to do is to email the details of their cars to sales@cars4sale4u.com and a text only advert of your car will be produced and included in our website)

av never emailed them, they stole the add off the trader ?

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cheeky gets

I just googled my number and found it on the web !! I am ex direct and no spam number withheld and all that stuff...bugger

I also had a problem with 090 numbers so had BT bar my number from dailing them, back in the days of dail up and maldialers.!!

[Sancho]

(BTW it wasn't a porn number!)

Chat line?

[Ava_Banana]

Sure it wasn't a PC helpline or some such thing.

...I ordered some bits from Overclockers which I then had to phone up and get changed as a graphics card was sh@gged.

...it was only when I got my company mobile phone bill that I saw we had been charged £20 or so for me sitting on hold waiting to be served.

[Scorpion]

Chat line?

No, some b@stard loan company! We can't understand this. I wasn't at home for the first call but I was for the second. My wife was out of the house for both of them. Virginmedia aren't interested! Perhaps they will be when I cancel my account?

[da SLUG man]

report it to the phone standards people... is that OFCOM?

[POPEYE]

Were always getting cold/automated phone calls, useually early evening, thought i was on some sucker list or summat, were with virgin as well, their much better than when it was NTL, they were useless, tell em to wistle for the 33 quid Jim,