Cable Forum - View Single Post - Virgin Media Equipment has Been Compromised

Toto · 20-02-2010, 16:47

Adam B

Artificially Inflating Traffic, get used to that term sir, you're fooling nobody. Calling your own premium rate service number can be seen as such, and if memory serves is against regulations, but I could be wrong and am happy to be proved such.

You can argue that you "may or may not" have made those calls, you can even say you were testing your service from your Virgin Media landline, but at least credit this forums users with a little intelligence.

Also, can you take a company to small claims court for the loss of thousands of pounds as you claim?

Surely you have to go to big boys court for that?

Edit:

Did a bit of digging.

AIT – “artificially inflated traffic”. This occurs when someone may ring their own premium rate telephone service from their place of work or from a stolen or cloned mobile phone. British Telecom watch for such activity very closely and if it is found AIT has occured, British Telecom have the right to not pay you for revenue generated.

Now, the first video you posted clearly showed YOUR Virgin Media account number, and then showed a whole bunch of premium rate numbers. If the person at Virgin Media has reviewed that video, they would clearly see YOUR account number, and then those premium numbers which are clear to read.

Under TUFF they can request to know who has been assigned those numbers.

I suspect they know much more about this than you claim they are stating, if I were you I'd go lick my wounds, and learn how to use a black felt tip marker on your bills if you are going to post them on Youtube.

20-02-2010, 16:47	#170
Toto Inactive Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 3,403	Re: Virgin Media Equipment has Been Compromised Adam B Artificially Inflating Traffic, get used to that term sir, you're fooling nobody. Calling your own premium rate service number can be seen as such, and if memory serves is against regulations, but I could be wrong and am happy to be proved such. You can argue that you "may or may not" have made those calls, you can even say you were testing your service from your Virgin Media landline, but at least credit this forums users with a little intelligence. Also, can you take a company to small claims court for the loss of thousands of pounds as you claim? Surely you have to go to big boys court for that? Edit: Did a bit of digging. AIT – “artificially inflated traffic”. This occurs when someone may ring their own premium rate telephone service from their place of work or from a stolen or cloned mobile phone. British Telecom watch for such activity very closely and if it is found AIT has occured, British Telecom have the right to not pay you for revenue generated. Now, the first video you posted clearly showed YOUR Virgin Media account number, and then showed a whole bunch of premium rate numbers. If the person at Virgin Media has reviewed that video, they would clearly see YOUR account number, and then those premium numbers which are clear to read. Under TUFF they can request to know who has been assigned those numbers. I suspect they know much more about this than you claim they are stating, if I were you I'd go lick my wounds, and learn how to use a black felt tip marker on your bills if you are going to post them on Youtube.