Sanguinius
@ac.uk
|  Sorry For Cross-Posting But...
Hey folks,
Pls read e-mail text below this msg and see if you can offer any advice as to what might have gone on with this scenario. I'm trying to help a friend out (only caught this msg forum through searching, so replies to benglasgow AT hotmail DOT COM).
Any help greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Ben
MSg follows -
"Hey B.,
I'm in a wee spot of bother at the mo, I hope you can help me out. The phone bill for the landline arrived yesterday. It has 50 quid of premium rate calls on it, which I am being accused of making. I didn't call them in fact I haven't used the house phone at all since I got my mobile. I reckon it was some sort of trojan attached to the broadband but Graham has said that broadband cannot connect to a voice line and he didn't make the calls and his girlfriend isn't like that so I must have done it. He also says that even if it was a trojan - I must have downloaded it. As if he has never downloaded anything onto the computer - he had twice the mp3s I had. I'm so frustrated!
I remember reading something in the times about people having their broadband redirected to a premium number without them agreeing to the download, it happened in the background while they were just surfing normally. They ended up with an enormous phone bill and caroline was on the computer sometime that month when the virus checker found and removed a trojan. But Graham has asked one of his workmates who says that's impossible with broadband (yeah, a computer expert with more clout than the times who works in a restaurant?) I can't download the article to prove it because you have to subscribe to the times site. Why should I have to prove my innocence in the first place?
So the issue is he wants 50 quid off me to cover the bill or I am to move out! So I am wondering if a: you can collaborate my theory in any way and
b: you know anyone I can move in with because I don't know if I can stay in a flat where I'm being accused of things seemingly because I'm the easiest person to blame.
Cheers,
S |
