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« on: October 04, 2008, 10:58:12 »

Don't know if this has been mentioned before but...
Apparently there is a notorious gang (working the Reading area at the moment),- the ^Derby Drivers^. They drive around in white transit vans, generally making a thorough nuisance of themselves - driving very slowly, pulling out with out indicating, cutting people up on roundabouts etc.

On the back of each van is a ^how^s my driving sign?^ with a telephone number - be warned, the phone number given is premium rate one and even the shortest call to it will set you back at least ^25.

A colleague has also seen these jokers in the Westbury area, so watch out.
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2008, 14:16:18 »

ive always disagreeded with those hows your driving things on vans if your driving behind how do you note down the number in a safe and legal way? also delivery drivers often drive slowly to find a property
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« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2010, 23:51:00 »

OMG (Oh My doG ) - what lengths will people go to??  I'm a bit of a scam-buster, so thanks for alerting me to this, will have to keep an eye out for it.
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« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2010, 00:52:57 »

ive always disagreeded with those hows your driving things on vans if your driving behind how do you note down the number in a safe and legal way? also delivery drivers often drive slowly to find a property

Exactly. As well as distracting my eyes from the road!
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« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2010, 00:58:31 »

if your that bothered bout your fleet then livery and a fleet index should be enough... its easy to find the offending drivers employer in yellow pages and remember a fleet number off the van eg '1625'

btw you get a point if you can tell me what that code refers to :-)
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« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2010, 09:57:52 »

Hmmmm... that smacks of an urban legend to me. If I remember correctly, the highest rate "premium rate" phone line in the UK (United Kingdom) is ^1.50 a minute, so you'd have to be serious peed off at someone's driving to rack up a bill of ^25.00

edit: Actually Snopes doesn't have this particular one, but a related legend does confirm the ^1.50 figure:

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/scams/mobile.asp
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« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2010, 15:55:10 »

You beat me to it Phil, there is a similar one on Snopes about being left a postcard regarding a missed parcel delivery - just by dialling the number you ran up a bill of up to ^300 - depending on where you heard the story !!!
There was some truth in it originally: you were subjected to a 6 minute recorded message at ^1.50 a minute. But of course a ^9 scam doesn't sound as good as a ^300 one.
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« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2010, 16:01:31 »

Not meaning to be funny... But G.Uard posted this thread on October 4th 2008... Shocked
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« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2010, 16:07:35 »

You beat me to it Phil, there is a similar one on Snopes about being left a postcard regarding a missed parcel delivery - just by dialling the number you ran up a bill of up to ^300 - depending on where you heard the story !!!
There was some truth in it originally: you were subjected to a 6 minute recorded message at ^1.50 a minute. But of course a ^9 scam doesn't sound as good as a ^300 one.

Alistair Campbell was caught out by that one! Grin
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« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2010, 19:52:29 »

trout i noticed that last night however the vodka couldnt say no  Grin
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