08006899008

I found this number/ advert in Croydon guardian.

I tried to ring it, but was told by machine "you will be charged for this call depending on your orange tarif" so I hung up. I'm glad i did now.

The number 689 9008 is local to croydon/ thornton heath..

I just responded to an ad in the HEREFORD TIMES advertised today.
Answerphone says to press 1 and leave a message or text name and number to 07946 319317  which ive done......
Then I found this forum.. OH CRIPES! :(

I just called BT as Im not sure if 08006 is free or not.  They cant say for 48 hours.
I also called the HEREFORD TIMES and Kim there is going to investigate it with her manager after I directed her to this forum

2 words.. nasty nasty!!!

Same ad appeared in the Coventry Evening Telegraph. Look on here to late but have called the paper and made them aware.

Below is what I sent to the watchdog

There is an ad offering jobs in the Herne Bay Times with not too much info, only a phone number 08006899008 and a name, Mark on it.I researched it on the internet and according to most of the info available, this is a scam and every time you phone this number, you get a voice message asking you to text your name and contact details to a mobile number.

What seems to be happening here is that these people charge you for calling  and if you text your details, you get charged for that too. Your details are then sold to call centres.

This ad seems to have appeared all over the country.

Something should be done about this as these people are exploiting desperate jobseekers.

Don't Ring this number!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beware don't fall foul of this Prolific Scam artist!
Found it advertised  on       Jobstoday website on Peterborough site,

Its advertised everywhere in UK, I going to do my bit and report this!

Too Good to be True, (£10+training)=Scamming B    name+number collecter!+phone call charge !


Cheers for the Heads up!

They are advetiting the same job in the Telford Journal in Shropshire.

They are running the same ad in the Isle of Thanet Gazette today.

So Marks real name could well be Neil.

I also called this, it was advertised in my local Herald & Journal, and I'm based in Leicestershire.

This number must be a some sorta scam they have advertised in Coventry aswell i just searched on net for the RBM Computer services and nothing about such company. And then found this site and people comments

This is the correspondance between Kentmedia and myself: Copied and pasted with only names, numbers and email addresses sensored:

----- Original Message -----
From: "***,*** - KRNM" <***.***@***.***.***>
To: <***.***@***.***.***>
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 4:26 PM
Subject: RE: Kent - Letter to the editor


Mr ******

Thank you for raising this with the newspaper, unfortunately this is a
nationwide scam and managed to get through into newspapers within our
group.

Trading standards and the police have been informed.

Regards


*** ***




-----Original Message-----
From: Newsdesk, Canterbury - KRNM
Sent: 07 January 2010 17:09
To: ***, *** - KRNM
Subject: FW: Kent - Letter to the editor

Hi ***,

Are you aware of this?

Thanks,

***

-----Original Message-----
From: Internet User [mailto:***.***@***.***.***]
Sent: 07 January 2010 17:07
To: ***, *** - KRNM; ***.***@***.***.***; Newsdesk,
Canterbury - KRNM; Newsdesk, Thanet - KRNM; Newsdesk, Chatham - KRNM;
Newsdesk, Folkestone - KRNM; Newsdesk, Dover - KRNM; Newsdesk,
Sittingbourne - KRNM
Subject: Kent - Letter to the editor

name: *** ***
address1: ***** ****
address2:
city: Herne bay
postcode: CT6 ***
telephone: ******
email: ***.***@***.***.***
subject: Phoney job advert in Herne Bay Times
Comment: There is an ad offering jobs in the Herne Bay Times with not
too much info, only a phone number 08006899008 and a name, Mark on it.I
researched it on the internet and according to most of the info
available, this is a scam and every time you phone this number, you get
a voice message asking you to text your name and contact details to a
mobile number.

What seems to be happening here is that these people charge you for
calling 08006899008 and if you text your details, you get charged for
that too. Your details are then sold to call centres.

This ad seems to have appeared all over the country in local papers.

Something should be done about this as these people are exploiting
desperate jobseekers.
uword: fact

This number was also in my local paper (Hinckley) so I think that this job is a scam

It also appeared in The News, Portsmouth 7/1/10.  I phoned today (9/1/10) and a voice at the other end said the number had been changed to 0845 2996103.  When I called this number I was asked to type in the extension number followed by the hash key.  I did not have an extension number so I hung up.

Unfortunately, I will probably be charged for the 0845 number.  Lesson learnt - if it looks too good to be true, then it's probably a scam !

Advert now in bedfordshire papers, again i rung up and nobody was there. this is obviously a scam and papers should take more care when thinking about putting adverts into their papers.

Data entry does get £10 an hour, I got it when I was 17, but after visiting this page and one on Money Saving Expert I'm starting to get more wary

also says something that when you Google Mark Jackson it suggests "Albion Computers" now

Also now in the Worcester Evening News.  

Rang the O800 number but googled it once it asked me to call an 0845 (ie money) number.  Have reported it to the paper who are also reporting it to trading standards,as am I.

I live in County Tyrone Northern Ireland, if this shop is so legit were is your northern ireland office based at?

Because £10/hr for the job advertised is a little bit of a give away. Lets get real here - £6 / £7 /hr maybe.

Your a fake, a joke scamming people never got anyone anywhere. Get a life.

I have found this advert a while ago in a Kent local paper. It states that they are looking for Data Entry/Customer Service staff in their offices in Epsom, Gillingham, Reigate, Margate etc; Sounds harmless enough, but I thought I would google the number to find out the company name and what they do. Suprise, suprise I find this webpage and its all a scam. I thought it would be too good to be true £10ph!

This has appeared in our local paper in Devon, Tavistock Times.  It looks like a freephone number so I rang it but luckily for me, it says this number cannot be recognised.  Maybe they realise that people are onto them! this was for £10 ph for data entry so yes, it looked too good to be true and gut feeling was right

hiit has now appeared in the citizen a free paper for Haywards Hearth in mid Sussex!!