merridew@feddit.uk to Personal Finance - UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year agoCall connection services: A 39-minute phone call to cost me £119www.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down11cross-posted to: unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkCall connection services: A 39-minute phone call to cost me £119www.bbc.co.ukmerridew@feddit.uk to Personal Finance - UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: unitedkingdom@feddit.uk
minus-squarefakeman_pretendname@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-21 year agoWhat 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.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYeah, but there’s no law against it yet, so here we are. Chancers gonna chance.
minus-squareGiveOver@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoBack 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
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.
Yeah, but there’s no law against it yet, so here we are. Chancers gonna chance.
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