merridew to Personal Finance - 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
arrow-up17arrow-down1external-linkCall connection services: A 39-minute phone call to cost me £119www.bbc.co.ukmerridew to Personal Finance - UKEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: unitedkingdom
minus-squarefakeman_pretendnamelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-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-squareGiveOverlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-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
minus-squareBlackmistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoYeah, but there’s no law against it yet, so here we are. Chancers gonna chance.
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.
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
Yeah, but there’s no law against it yet, so here we are. Chancers gonna chance.