0706 telephone numbers – quick update – bogus expensive scam! (interview email)

Posted on May 20, 2013 by admin

I posted a scam email I got inviting me to an interview and asking me to call an 0706 number, i initially thought 0706 was just a mobile number but in fact it’s an expensive personal number that from a BT landline will cost 46p/min, from mobiles it will cost 66p/min upwards (and isn’t included in any inclusive minutes).

http://consumers.ofcom.org.uk/files/2010/01/numbering.pdf - note it’s 0706 (personal number) not a mobile

In short it’s an expensive rip off number and is very hard to identify the actual recipient. Someone somewhere is making money on this, the termination or forwarding to a premium rate number is a rip off and UK people should be aware of the costs before they call. Ofcom decided to remove any warning message in 2008 (which is a shame), alas people will call 0706 number in innocence thinking it’s not going to cost lots of money.

 

For completeness, I’ve included some of the numbers linked to an interview scam email (my blog post has received attention as I made a point of flagging the email as a bogus scam).

 

Please complain to your telco provider if you do find yourself billed for any calls made to an 0706 number if you didn’t have any warning or indication of the costs involved. It’s not fair and the telco’s should be doing more to ensure that people are not being ripped off this way.

 

Numbers linked so far to the bogus interview email:

07064848750 / 07064848713 / 07064848714 / 07064848716 / 07064848719 / 07064848720 / 07064848722 / 07064848723 (as it’s a range I expect to get news of 07064848724 , 07064848725 , 07064848726 etc)
The email appears to come from browncharles364@yahoo.co.uk

My actual blog post about the same is here

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Scum (07064848750 Bogus Bullshit Email / Premium Rate Scam) – also 07064848713 / 07064848714 / 07064848715 / 07064848716 / 07064848717 / 07064848718 / 07064848719 / 07064848720 / 07064848722 / 07064848721 / 07064848723 / 07064848724 Lots of 0706 numbers

Posted on May 7, 2013 by admin

I’m looking for a new contract or permanent position and so have applied for a number of jobs / positions and also have my CV searchable on a few job sites.

I received an email this afternoon that is annoying (sent to a CV email address and not my primary addy)

The headers (only edited to mask one of my email addys)

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Return-path: <browncharles364@yahoo.co.uk>
Envelope-to: ***@webtrickery.com
Delivery-date: Tue, 07 May 2013 16:01:03 +0100
Received: from bbr.bbrem.net (bbr.bbrem.net [198.57.140.12])
by mail.webtrickery.com (Exim 4.77 #12 FreeBSD)
with ESMTPS
(Cipher TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1UZjNx-00008d-D9
for <***@webtrickery.com>; Tue, 07 May 2013 16:01:03 +0100
X-No-Relay: not in my network
Received: from 88-105-43-190.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (92.40.253.152.threembb.co.uk [92.40.253.152])
by bbr.bbrem.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3053117EF4111
for <***@webtrickery.com>; Tue, 7 May 2013 09:00:45 -0600 (MDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: "charles" <browncharles364@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: browncharles364@yahoo.co.uk
To: ***@webtrickery.com
Subject: Invitation to job Interview
Content-Type: text/html; charset="windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
X-Mailer: Smart_Send_2_0_138
Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 16:00:40 +0100
Message-ID: <2968352576896268912474@N150>
X-Spam-Score: 0.6 (/)

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Hi 
As a result your application, I would like to invite you to attend an interview.
You will have an interview with the department manager, Jenny Wilson. The interview
will last about 30 min.
Please bring three reference (If available), as well as a copy of your ID, e.g.
Passport, Driving License to the interview.
Please contact me on 07064848750, in order to arrange an interview
We look forward to seeing you

Best regards
Charles Brown

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What is annoying is the number is seemingly a premium number (not that I would have noticed this straight off), I googled it to find a few pages listing it as a bogus scam.

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/07064848750

I would recommend anyone who gets unsolicited mails with phone numbers should always check them via Google (and / or additional search engines) and where possible flag the number as bogus / nuisance.

They are parasites and scum and deserve to be publicly named and shamed.

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variations include

Hi As a result your application, I would like to invite you to attend an interview. You will have an interview with the department manager, Edie Wilson. The interview will last about 30 min. Please bring three reference (If available), as well as a copy of your ID, e.g. Passport, Driving License to the interview. Please contact me on 07064848715, in order to arrange an interview We look forward to seeing you Best regards Charles Brown

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