email scam ???

[gavroche]

How can they demand payment for something you haven't ordered. I regularly get one from iTunes and have never ordered anything from itune. Delete and forget about it.

 

[gavintc]

Unless you are a business, you won't be emailed an invoice. It's as simple as that.

wrong; there are a number of agencies who email me their invoice.

 

[busdennis]

thanks all. I new it must be a scam which I had not had before, was just checking if was new and "doing the rounds" and also warning low tech computer users like me at the same time.

 

[classic33]

thanks all. I new it must be a scam which I had not had before, was just checking if was new and "doing the rounds" and also warning low tech computer users like me at the same time.

Put the sort code through a search engine.
And its easy be wise after the event.

 

[Salar]

It might be a good idea to kill the links and websites on the opening post, they still look live to me.
Someone might click them by mistake.

 

[swee'pea99]

How can they demand payment for something you haven't ordered.

'They' can do more than that. 'They' can just help themselves to your money, with the collusion of the network operators, who share the spoils of this particularly squalid (and surprisingly widespread) scam:

Amazing. But true. It is quite amazing what major companies are allowed to get away with by the so-called regulators.

In the end, after The Guardian intervened, they received a cheque for £72. Money which would otherwise have been shared amicably between 'Zamono Solutions' and Vodafone - a FTSE 100 company.

 

[fossyant]

Just been emailed that I'm owed $24,718, yay..

 

[classic33]

'They' can do more than that. 'They' can just help themselves to your money, with the collusion of the network operators, who share the spoils of this particularly squalid (and surprisingly widespread) scam:

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Amazing. But true. It is quite amazing what major companies are allowed to get away with by the so-called regulators.

In the end, after The Guardian intervened, they received a cheque for £72. Money which would otherwise have been shared amicably between 'Zamono Solutions' and Vodafone - a FTSE 100 company.

There's a thread about the company named by Vodafone.
Owned by a 21 year old, and limited to Vodafone.

 

[swee'pea99]

There's a thread about the company named by Vodafone.
Owned by a 21 year old, and limited to Vodafone.

Link?

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Pay as you go phone? Could have simply got a different sim card instead of paying out £72 in top ups.......

 

[classic33]

Link?

I can't find it at present and was hoping no-one would ask the question you did.

 

[mjr]

Pay as you go phone? Could have simply got a different sim card instead of paying out £72 in top ups.......

Because it's not like anyone wants to keep the same phone number enough that there's a system for it?

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Because it's not like anyone wants to keep the same phone number enough that there's a system for it?

It still doesn't stop it being an easy problem to fix, or a suitable alternative solution till it is resolved.

 

[swee'pea99]

It still doesn't stop it being an easy problem to fix, or a suitable alternative solution till it is resolved.

That's one way to look at it. Another is that Vodafone and others like them should not be allowed to make it necessary. It's legalised robbery; not just 'demanding payment for something you haven't ordered', but taking your money for something you never ordered.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Another is that Vodafone and others like them should not be allowed to make it necessary. It's legalised robbery; not just 'demanding payment for something you haven't ordered', but taking your money for something you never ordered.

I don't really see what they (Vodafone) have done. How do they know whether the company has charged the person legitimately or not? How do they know if the customer has, or has not signed up for the services that they're being charged for?