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"Press 9" Telephone Scam? Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:14:19 GMT

I've just been phoned by an American/Canadian sounding woman (I think it was
a pre-recorded message):

"Congratulations! You have been specially selected for one of our offers.
Press 9. Our operators are standing by".

Obviously I just hung up, but presumerably pressing 9 would have incurred a
massive charge of some sort. As I wasn't warned about that, was the call and
its methods, "illegal"?

Why doesn't the Telephone Preference System I'm on deal with such calls?

1471 revealed that the caller withheld their number.
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