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Story: High-tech cops probe premium-rate Internet fraud

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Posted by: J Magrath (Friday 17 December 2004, 12:38 PM)

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I have been billed £2700 for one premium rate phone call by BT made while I was away for a weekend by an outo dialler
that had been installed on my PC without my knowledge. The call lasted 27 hours and was eventually ended by BT.
My regular monthly BT bill is £23.00 - had this been my bank they would not have allowed such an unusual sum to have been incurred - BT on the otherhand have no such interest in protecting their customers from Fraud.

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