I used to work for Onetel
part of my job was to keep track and report the use of these.

Unfortunatley, as it wasnt the Phone companies fault the virus ended up on the machine, it was deemed the users problem. By the time i left the job, i had a list of premium rate numbers totalling over 600 in number, These were easy to shut down. however they then turned their attention to places like the Cayman islands, where BT had no control over the scam. I remember we had access to a few very remote and small island cut off to the UK purely because of this scam.

Not a nice scam.
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Fri 24 Feb 2012, 14:46, 1 reply)

i apprecaiate that it's not the phone company's problem
but the stance that bt were taking was that they couldn't give two hoots that they were paying out money to criminals as long as i paid my bill and they got their cut
( real i'm not happy 'til you're not happy, Sat 25 Feb 2012, 1:30, closed)