I posted a long while back saying I had been the victim of a rouge dialler.  These diallers get installed on your machine by remote computers while you surf the net.  They then 'activate' and dial upto the internet via premium rate numbers.

As I had broadband, I was totally unaware that these calls where taking place - I should have disconnected the modem, but was still using it for fax's.

I had a bill in the region of £200 from BT.  This was due to the dialler, and BT would not refund.  The are not responsible for premium rate numbers, and only recieve a tiny percent of the money - the connection charge.




BT did however give me the contact details of the company who had swindled me.........located in spain.




This was almost 12months ago, and I have been in contact with the said company monthly by POSTAL LETTER - they will not communicate by phone or email.

The have been most avaisive over the matter, but I assume began to get pi55ed off with the letters..........AND HAVE PAYED ME BACK WHAT IS OWED!!!

I want to stress to anyone else who has been unfortunate enough to suffer these diallers - stick with it, keep the correspondence up, don't let them win!!!!!!

They have paid me back in full, the only way they would was with several photo copied bills/documents etc, and a special international transfer number from my bank.  I supplied all of these time and time again, and they have finally paid!  The only thing is, my bank charge me £4 for the transfer  I am not going to go chasing that - im happy with what I have got!

I have ensured my bank have kept copies of my correspndence with the company, and have had the bank sign them, and write a covering letter.  This was purely as I was very dubious of giving out details of my account to spain, even thought the details I gave can only be used to pay in, not withdraw.






I hope others will read this, and realise they can succeed against the con-men!

Was that wise... I mean this shady outfit in spain now has your address, your bank account details, copies of utility bills and samples of your autograph.

They have my old office address - we recently moved industrial units

All copies of bills only showed what was neccessary, all though, yes, they have my name.

The bank details I gave, I was assured by the bank where only able to be used to pay in funds - I did make sure the bank kept a record - as I did.

I'm sure the crackers are working on it as we speak CW, if it's not already in some trojans.

Also just found this which makes nice reading along with some of the links from that page.

btk

[quote author=CWatters  link=1134678197/0#5 date=1135037575]
This got me thinking....

I wonder if people who use their broadband connection to make SKYPE calls are also vunerable? Skype and similar VOIP services can also dial landlines. I guess it might be possible to write a rogue dialer that used your Sype connection to dial a premium rate landline number. [/quote]
sure its possible but a lot of theese services are prepay based so like stealing a prepay mobile people can only use the credit thats on the account.