On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:22:13 GMT, John Youles
<jyoules@this.address.is.invalid> wrote:
>Juan Kerr <juan.kerr@bluebottle.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 21, 9:40*pm, Alex Heney <m...@privacy.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > I now perfectly well that is how it works.
>> >
>> > But that is STILL not the telco defrauding you.
>> > --
>> > Alex Heney, Global Villager
>>
>> I don't really know how much simpler I can make it for you to grasp
>> that it IS the telco doing the defrauding?
>>
>> As an analogy, let's assume you employ Bob The Builder to build you a
>> garden wall. When he's finished, he presents you with an inflated
>> invoice and when you query it he says "oh yes, the local garden centre
>> instructed me to put up a shed and bill you".
>>
>> You wouldn't expect to have to pay the builder and chase the garden
>> centre for a refund............there's no contract between you and the
>> garden centre, you've paid them no money so why would they feel the
>> need to refund you?
>>
>> Deducting the cost of the shed and paying Bob the remainder isn't an
>> option either; it's all or nothing I'm afraid in this analogy.
>>
>> So you pay the builder the full amount at which point he then says
>> "sorry, no refunds, go and talk to the garden centre".
>>
>> That's as accurate an analogy as there is and it probably highlights
>> how corrupt the reverse-SMS system is.
>
>Excellently put !
It was completely pointless, since it wasn't a good analogy, and even
if it had been, it certainly would not have demonstrated that any
fraud might be taking place.
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Alex Heney, Global Villager
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