The Wise Monkeys

The 4 Wise Monkeys have been tracking now for way to long is the DC Marketing ‘Ring Once’ and hang up leaving a ‘Missed Call’ notification on your mobile phone hoping that you will be ‘socially engineered’ into returning the call. A full list of the numbers that you may receive these calls from is listed over on the number index page (click here for link). If you return the call which is to a local number you are billed accordingly by your mobile telephony provider at the standard rate. The recorded message you hear if you do call this number will prompt you to dial a 190x-xxx-xxx telephone number that you are then billed at premium rates that are disclosed in the recorded message that you have just heard.

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Blind since age 3, Ben Underwood skateboards, shoots hoops and plays video games. How does he do it? Just like bats and dolphins.

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18 TVs might have caused his apartment to catch fire reports a neighbour of the sixth-floor unit at Miami Beach. Fla, and you thought you watched to much TV?

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Recently 4 Wise Monkeys pulled a number of posts after objections from DC Marketing (the blog has enough exposure now that we need to play things safe)… We have reevaluated a number of issues that have been brought to our attention and are in the process of drafting some posts that we will release in the next couple of days (assuming it all flies past the lawyers ok). These posts will outline three differant scams currently in circulation and give everyone a clearer indication of what to do if they are affected (these posts will include more information on the dc marketing scam).

In no way do we condone illegal activity, against DC Marketing or any other company in any way, shape, or form. We understand as consumers you are upset, but making illegal threats is not the way to win the fight and you only hamper the efforts that we have put in here.

Complain to the government agencies (see the phone scams page for more information on how to do this), to get your point across.

Update: Earlier today we posted a few articles, that we later withdrew due to legal reasons, this information included reports that were wrongly directed towards DC Marketing.  We apologize for the misconception this may have brought. We are currently confirming a lot of our information with Optus and will post what we can once we have something more substancial. If you feel you can contribute to these posts then please feel free to stop by our forums (click here for link).