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Subject: Re: "Press 9" Telephone Scam? Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:53:37 +0000 (UTC)

In article , nightjar
writes
>
> wrote in message
>news:fF8Gj.20272$5i5.10599@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net...
>> 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".
>
>I'm amazed there is anyone who listens to a recorded message call long
>enough to hear the whole message. I will have hang up within a word or two
>from when they start.
>
>Colin Bignell
>
>
-but the problem is that the number does not clear down until the
recorded spiel finishes; I hang up straight away but if I then lift the
receiver to do a 1471 on the number, the message continues to the end.
--
Chris Holford