Thread: Virgin Media Equipment has Been Compromised
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Old 10-11-2009, 13:34   #134
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Re: Virgin Media Equipment has Been Compromised
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Originally Posted by arcamalpha2004 View Post
" I'd have far more sympathy if the OP wasn't in one of the most dishonest businesses around"



Your above quote can imo only be read to imply one thing Don, there is no " I can see how it can be read..."
And sorry to disagree, but VM like any company do not " Have to " associate themselves with such " Dishonest " companies as you called them.
Surely they cannot be that hard up for money.
If you can find anything that states that any company, be that VM or whoever " Have to " offer such services feel free to come back and I will retract.
I had an experience with VM a few years ago now where they attempted to bill me over £100 for calls that I know that I did not make, calls that were made apparently one after the other, it was rediculous, each call was for literally seconds, as if someone was calling the number then once they got through they were putting the phone down and redialling the number, one after the other, after the other, as I say this ammounted to over £100 worth of calls that we certainly did not make physically.
When I disputed the charges they were eventually, after having to pull nails, written off.
I am now with BT and oddly enough have not had such issues since.
I would never go back to VM for the telephone service even if I had to string two cans together to avoid them.
So sorry, they do not have to associate themselves with such companies, unless as I say you can prove that they do.
Businesses as in the premium call line business, although I probably should have said industry.

VM can't instantly tell which companies are dishonest, they have to at first carry calls to all numbers, then when a company shows itself as dishonest they issue AIT notices, and then block the numbers from being called from VM landlines. That alternative is what I said, they block ALL premium rate numbers unless a company can jump through hoops to show them they are honest. That's not an ideal situation at all.

If you have a way to instantly identify with services are dishonest immediately without them rogue billing customers so they can avoid dealing with them though I'd love to hear it?
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