Football Scam: Ofcom/Phonepayplus ignoring serious fraud?

[El Gringo]

This is a prime example of why the public should not trust this UK Premium Rate Industry.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04..._lottery_scam/
Football lottery scam targets UK punters
Big Cup con
17th April 2009

Fans of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United are being targeted in a new email scam that attempts to trick recipients into sending premium rate text-messages in the hope of winning non-existent Champions League final ticket prizes.

The ruse promises entry in a draw for a chance of a seat at the Stadio Olimpico on 27 May but promises only to empty fans' pockets, net security firm BitDefender warns. The Champions League and similarly-themed Uefa Cup scam are aimed at mobile subscribers and began circulating earlier this week, before Liverpool and Manchester City were knocked out of the competitions.

"Under the false appearance of a lottery that offers tickets to the final matches, the text-based spam invite recipients to send text messages with the name of their favorite team to a specific number," BitDefender analyst Razvan Livintz explains. "Most likely, cybercriminals collect a fee for each SMS, but they do not give any ticket to Sükrü Saracoglu Stadium or Stadio Olimpico in return."

Livintz adds that the scam follows in the wake of World Cup lottery scams explained in more depth here.

http://www.malwarecity.com/blog/uefa...-fans-415.html





60999
http://www.txtnation.com/
and
http://smscoin.net/info/pricing-united-kingdom/

"txtNation"60999
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...meta=&aq=f&oq=

60999 sms
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...=&aq=1&oq=6099

may be the police should ask who the 'client' for this 'campaign' was.

revenue share = 'follow the money'

[El Gringo]

so txtNation and smscoin are resellers

http://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/69122

Hi
I have a contract with o2 and have been having the same problems as the above with MXTELECOM,I phoned o2 and demanded they put a bar on these types of tx messages,they have a premium Barring service that stops any such messages getting through to your phone.I am now after a refund from o2 who I have been told are affiliated with o2 and probably all the other mobile phone networks !.

Caller ID: Gary
Caller: 60999

Originally Posted by Gary - 29 Jan 2009

http://miseryguts.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html

I get a call from Orange about the reverse-charged texts I’ve been receiving (remember the one asking me to text STAR to 60999 to audition for the next Harry Potter film!). It seems that, under normal circumstances, Orange don’t provide itemised phone bills for Pay As You Go customers but, because I was misinformed, they’ll send me a list of calls for the last three months. The guy who called me also gave me the contact details for the company concerned, MX Telecom. He gave me their 0870-19994741 number

there appears to be a lot of bad appples using MX Telecom's 60999 short code