interestrateripoff Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2520690/Teen-racked-1-158-phone-voting-Lucy-Pargeter-Im-A-Celebrity.html A teenage I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here fan has been hit with a £1,158 phone bill after voting for her favourite star Lucy Pargeter more than 2,000 times.The the horror of her mother, superfan Nicole Hassall, 18, racked up the huge bill in just six hours as she bid to keep her idol in the jungle. The teenager made a staggering 2,316 calls to the ITV show’s 50p premium rate number in support of the Emmerdale star - unaware her phone bill would sky-rocket as a result. .. A spokesman added: 'We sympathise with Ms Hassall and have offered a 50 per cent reduction on her bill as a gesture of goodwill. 'To help customers avoid high charges from voting lines we terminated each of the calls after six seconds. Clearly we need more like this teenager to boost the economy. Totally useless with basic maths and has no idea what she's doing. All the skills needed to be a banker. Although clearly there should be something in place with phone companies that stop such ridiculously high bills being generated. However you do wonder how clueless she could really have been don't Ant&Dec repeatedly tell you how much each call will cost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Then she poses like a dildo with the phone . In my day you would have been so black and blue from the back of your Dad`s hand that no paper would have even photographed you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quicken Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 So the daughter has a contract smart phone in her mother's name? 4 letters: PAYG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 So the daughter has a contract smart phone in her mother's name? 4 letters: PAYG "And he's up there, what's that? Printing press noises?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_duke_of_hazzard Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 "She has now called for tighter controls on dialling premium-rate numbers from mobiles and questioned how her daughter was able to rack up such a huge bill." Because you gave your daughter your phone, you mewling idiot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Knimbies who say No Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 The girl made a call every 9.3 seconds for six hours solid? As usual with the Wail, something ain't right.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Money could have gone towards a house deposit. No wonder the young today can't afford houses. It was tough in my day too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motch Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I heard a story pre mainstream internet days, where a dodgy company set up premium rate lines and they got people they knew to ring up from empty/broken into houses and left the phone to ring for hours on end, dodgy company got their huge commision before anyone found out (must of been the early days before BT became wise to it all). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Executive Sadman Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Then she poses like a dildo with the phone . In my day you would have been so black and blue from the back of your Dad`s hand that no paper would have even photographed you. Had some individual in the DM the other day who 'paid 450 pound for a photo of a playstation 4' looked at his twitter for the hell of it. Several dozen tweets of screenshots of his new found fame and scans of papers. These people just want to get their mugs in the paper as far as I can tell. Maybe a few really are this dumb, but most seem to be narcissists and plan it all along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 £250 for her christmas present? Make them pay for the full phone bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nuggets Mahoney Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 I heard a story pre mainstream internet days, where a dodgy company set up premium rate lines and they got people they knew to ring up from empty/broken into houses and left the phone to ring for hours on end, dodgy company got their huge commision before anyone found out (must of been the early days before BT became wise to it all). Thanks, as I heard it, to customers being billed quarterly and premium rate number operators being paid monthly. You wouldn't even need to break into anywhere. Install half a dozen phones at one end of the room and phone up another half dozen at the other end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 Had some individual in the DM the other day who 'paid 450 pound for a photo of a playstation 4' looked at his twitter for the hell of it. Several dozen tweets of screenshots of his new found fame and scans of papers. These people just want to get their mugs in the paper as far as I can tell. Maybe a few really are this dumb, but most seem to be narcissists and plan it all along. Exactly, that is all it is, the paper will pay the phone bill now and give them something on top. Sheeple think being in the paper mugging into their phone means they have "made it" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingatthepyramid Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 nice phone, probably smarter than the halftard operator. welcome to the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
workingatthepyramid Posted December 9, 2013 Share Posted December 9, 2013 what is that an s4? better than i can reasonably afford/ justify after nearly 30 years working. my heart bleeds for her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNACR Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Surprised they ran with it. All a bit last century premium phone lines. I thought the new whine was having moronically given your kids your apple app store password it turns out they've dropped a grand of your hard earned on Smurfberries or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker127 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 So the daughter has a contract smart phone in her mother's name? 4 letters: PAYG I got my 15 year old daughter a contract smart phone and specifically requested the phone company to limit her monthly bill to £35 per month. i.e. just the contract texts and monthly minutes. Overseas calls and premium numbers were barred...including voting lines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomandlu Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Surprised they ran with it. All a bit last century premium phone lines. I thought the new whine was having moronically given your kids your apple app store password it turns out they've dropped a grand of your hard earned on Smurfberries or something. Don't remind me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gf3 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 I got my 15 year old daughter a contract smart phone and specifically requested the phone company to limit her monthly bill to £35 per month. i.e. just the contract texts and monthly minutes. Overseas calls and premium numbers were barred...including voting lines. You blow £35 a month on your 15 year old's phone? You must be very rich or very stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 I don't know what sort of mother wants to go so public with the fact of her daughter' extreme stupidity. Or was it the girl herself? No hope either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Is this what you have to pay to get a good story...I hope they made it worth her while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Bear Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 You blow £35 a month on your 15 year old's phone? You must be very rich or very stupid. All very well, but no parent wants their kid to be the only one not to have something, no matter what their private thoughts are. Life can be hard enough at 15 anyway, bullies and general insecurities, and some girls can be very cruel. I am very glad my kids grew up before mobiles were just another expensive must-have. When my elder went to uni. In 95 just one girl on her floor in hall had a mobile, and they still refer to that girl as Sarah Mobile. By the time my younger went 4 years later, just about everybody had one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walker127 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 You blow £35 a month on your 15 year old's phone? You must be very rich or very stupid. Err...2 years ago that is what an iphone4 contract cost.....it,s normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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