O2 bill for B4U 84010 text scam despite police warning

[El Gringo]

Apr 7th, 2006, 2:09pm
I suspect that a lot of people will have had 84010 unsolicited text messages on the 31st March this year. Looking on Grumbletext there appears to have been a deluge of them. They come from Dialogue Communications Limited according to O2, they gave me an 0871 number of course. Of course O2 didnt want to know, they even claimed it would only cost the same as a 01/02 number to dial 0871 fomr the mobile ! Dialogue in turn washed their hands completely of the problem, extremely rudely I might add, saying they were only a service provider !!!! , then tell you to ring B4UTELE.com, again an 0871 number, only charged at 1p per minute, yes they both claimed this.

I would be very interested to hear from other members if they had the same scam pulled on them, by the way I have sent in the geographical numbers for both, Dialogue is 0114 281 5275, B4UTELE is 0121 643 7969. I got the Dialogue number from ICSTIS after much complaining and refusing to hang up. Of course, as usual everyone blames everyone else.

I won't hold my breath for a refund.

Originally Posted by Saynoto0870

Subject of the post : 84010 (4885 posts) by cswa at: 19:22 29/03/06
84010 I am a PAYG with O2 & have been for a few years. I received an unsolicited message from the scam artists at Dialogue Communications Ltd, owners of 84010 according to ICSTIS. It wasn't even a joke, just some advert offering no doubt spurious vouchers from a mobile phone website (www.B4Utele.com). I have never subscribed to a text service in my life. I would love to catch whoever sold these 'see you next tuesday's' my number.

CITY OF LONDON POLICE MEET WITH NETWORK OPERATORS
Offences
The COLP ECD advised Networks of the importance of due diligence and the dangers
of doing business with people that they suspected were involved in criminality. It was
stressed that Network Operators may be committing offences if they continue to do
business with people after such suspicion arises.

Originally Posted by City of London Police Economic Crime Department (COLP ECD)
1 February 2006

Grumbletext
I have never actually sent any texts from my O2 number ever! After he'd investigated further, he told me that it appeared there had been other similar complaints about this same 84010 in the last few days. I said that in that case, it seemed to me that someone out there was fraudulently obtaining money from O2's customers through O2 and that maybe they(O2) should look into it.

Originally Posted by Grumbletext 18/04/06

Why is New Labour giving O2 and the other washing machine operators immunity from police investigation?