[Gllug] re: premium-rate dialups

[Robert McKay]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 01:32:48PM +0100, David Damerell wrote:
> On Wednesday, 7 Apr 2004, t.clarke wrote:
> >Personally I think the whole premium-rate system is something we could largely
> >do without.  Certainly, my life hasn't been 'enriched' by their use.
> >Seems to me they are largely used as a means of screwing the gullible.
> 
> Largely they are used for smut; any expensive technological
> development is paid for by smut, but the vendors never want to say
> that...
> 
> >For example:
> >Is the Capital of France either:
> >a) Berlin
> >b) Paris
> >c) Brussels
> >Phone a premium rate number (for over a quid) and if you get it right (very
> >difficult) your enter a draw for a prize.
> 
> Yes; I noticed a couple of years ago that the equivalent
> "competitions" during Grand Prix changed from nominally challenging
> questions ("who won four races in a row in 1957?") to obviously
> trivial ones ("is the world's most successful German driver named a)
> Schumacher b) de la Rosa c) Thorvalds"), which does rather expose the
> whole thing as a scam.
> 
> -- 
> David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> Kill the tomato!

I actually saw one once where the options where:

a) Don't want the prize
b) Don't want the prize
c) Want the prize

-Rob.
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