Call connection services: 'A 39-minute phone call cost me £119'
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Three customers were charged more than £100 for unknowingly using a call connection service.
  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What are these “Call Connection Services” actually offering? Like what’s their official reason for existing as a business?

    “We give people fake phone numbers to trick them into paying us money on free calls” doesn’t sound like a legit business plan.

    • GiveOver@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Back in the day it made sense, before internet existed. You’d call a number and say “connect me to HMRC”. Now it’s just a leftover