{"id":82304,"date":"2018-03-09T14:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/amazon-customers-charged-62p-a-minute-for-calls-to-premium-rate-number\/"},"modified":"2018-03-09T15:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T08:04:18","slug":"amazon-customers-charged-62p-a-minute-for-calls-to-premium-rate-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/amazon-customers-charged-62p-a-minute-for-calls-to-premium-rate-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon customers charged 62p a minute for calls to premium-rate number"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOfficial-looking website tricked users into thinking they were calling the retailer\u2019s free customer service lineRegarding your story about a customer who ran up a large phone bill by inadvertently calling Amazon on a premium-rate forwarding number, it is interesting to find Amazon itself giving such a number on its official Twitter account. The 0843 number costs up to 62p per minute. IB, London Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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