Media: Triple J Interview
We have received word today that skelm and I will be interviewed by Triple J in the upcoming days. At the current time we are not 100% sure when the interview will air, though we are asuming it will air during their show "Hack" 5:30pm weeknights.
Earleir in the week, hack hosted a segment in regards to this scam which you can download from their website, due to the huge responce they received they have asked up to speak up on air about the situation - an offer we can not refuse!
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this is a new email that has been going around lately. (note: not made by me).
Hi All,
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> This is just for general information. One of my fellow team members has
>received one of these calls.
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>if you get a missed call from one of the following numbers, don’t call it
>back.
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>if you do, you will be charged $50 as it is an internet number…it says
>you have won $40 and to call another number….then you will get slapped
>with another $50 amount.
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> It’s been doing the rounds in canberra….i received the prank this
>morning!
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> The list of phone numbers you may be pranked from:
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>* (02) 8219 0500
>* (02) 8303 8320
>* (02) 8303 8321
>* (02) 8404 2201
>* (02) 8404 2203 * (02) 8404 2213
>* (02) 8404 2215
>* (02) 8404 2235
>* (02) 8404 2236
>* (02) 8404 2245 * (02) 8404 2296 * (02) 8404 2298
>* (03) 8102 9565
>* (03) 8558 0556
>* (03) 8558 1441
>* (03) 8558 1442
>* (03) 8558 1443
>* (03) 8558 1444
>* (03) 8558 1445
>* (03) 8558 1446
>* (03) 8558 1447
>* (03) 9540 2950
>* (03) 9540 5100 * (03) 9540 5101
>* (03) 9540 5187
>* (03) 9540 5189
>* (03) 9855 2913though its claims are outrageous but it’ll certainly make ppl more aware of this operation.
wizza says...June 17th, 2006 at 1:17 pm -
yeah that happened to me, one of the 9540 numbers
Asmodaes says...June 17th, 2006 at 10:08 pm -
yea i sent this in as a link on the guest book when i heard they were going to run the piece, it was the same day that above spam mail came, well a similar one, that one claimed each call was $50 and a melbourne shockjock was caught and something about a sexline.
post when your going to be on and i’ll have to tune in, the previous segment was a touch underwhelming in depth compared to this site.
Beardedgeek says...June 18th, 2006 at 1:18 am -
Dear 4WM,
we feel again obliged to reply to this. As Mr Munn will probably be able to confirm, the above business practiques are in NO connection with the DC Marketing promotion.
As already repeatedly stated by us in this blog, we are not the only company utilising the missed call marketing technique (and we were to our knowledge also not the first). PLease therefore distinguish between our promotion and others, as it is quite unfair to make DC MArketing responsible for promotions we do NOt have anything to do with. THe above described scheme sounds illegal, and we are confident that Australian authorities will be able to stop these in a metter of a few days.
Kind regards
DC Marketing
DC Marketing says...June 18th, 2006 at 7:05 pm -
Dear Mr Gruber,
On our website we have never made the claim that you would be charged $50.00 for calling these numbers.
We have always reported that the phone call will only cost a local phone call from a mobile phone and then $2.97 to respond to the 1900 number.
In closing we are not responsable for the above e-mail.
4 Wise Monkeys
June 18th, 2006 at 8:26 pm -
lol, i felt that i have redeamed myself from receiving those 2 pranks i got from them by posting the above email forwarding. It actually made them reply. =P
Wizza says...June 19th, 2006 at 2:22 pm -
How do you mean Wizza? Did they reply to you via e-mail? Can you provide a bit more information please
June 19th, 2006 at 2:50 pm -
[...] In referance to: Media: Triple J [...]
June 19th, 2006 at 3:26 pm -
DC Marketing:
To ensure that 4WM distinguish correctly between your promotions and the promotions of other companies, could you inform us of the phone numbers you do use for your promotions? 4WM don’t want to misreport the facts. If you’re so keen to tell people by leaving these numbers on their mobiles at such a cheap rate, surely you’ll want to cut your costs even further by publishing these lists so people can call them without any charge to you?
Darkness says...June 19th, 2006 at 9:17 pm -
DC MARKETING:
Please provide me with a fax number or email address where I can forward my mobile number and request that you cease to call me. I have no interest in your services.
If, as you have claimed, you have a large customer base then giving the public the option to opt out of your service should have no impact on your bottom line. I’m more than happy for you to save yourselves the time and expense of calling me.
If you are committed to providing good service to your potential customers then I see no reason why you should not provide an opt out service.
Thank you
June 21st, 2006 at 7:04 pm -
I occasionally get missed calls which I reply to and am told the person did not try to contact me. Multiply this by thousands of other phone numbers and Telstra would be on a nice little earner. How many others have experienced this?
Dick says...June 22nd, 2006 at 8:15 pm
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