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Phone number

  • 15-08-2019 7:44pm
    #1
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭


    *1590 30 23 48‬
    Anyone recognize this number

    I’m on eir mobile and seemingly I rang it for 10 mins and it cost me 36 euro


Comments

  • #2
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    It's taxofficeireland dot com.

    Not putting in the address in case someone clicks on it


  • #3
    Force Carrier
    Closed Accounts Posts: 594 ✭✭✭Force Carrier


    Isn't it ironic that you payed VAT on that phone call.


  • #4
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Force Carrier wrote: »
    Isn't it ironic that you payed VAT on that phone call.

    Is that a legit number


  • #5
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 13,421 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    catrat12 wrote: »
    Is that a legit number

    Yes. It's a legitimate number. You dialled it and you were charged. An illegitimate number would suggest if you dialled it, it wouldn't work


  • #6
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    antodeco wrote: »
    Yes. It's a legitimate number. You dialled it and you were charged. An illegitimate number would suggest if you dialled it, it wouldn't work

    Thanx a million and also I’m terrible at finding the right place to post my stuff

    God that was a expensive phone call


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  • #7
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    catrat12 wrote: »
    Thanx a million and also I’m terrible at finding the right place to post my stuff

    God that was a expensive phone call

    It was a scam. It’s not the tax office.


  • #8
    cml387
    Registered Users Posts: 8,357 ✭✭✭cml387


    Fr_Dougal wrote: »
    It was a scam. It’s not the tax office.

    Probably would have cost you a lot more if it was boom boom.


  • #9
    ILoveYourVibes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,176 ✭✭✭✭ILoveYourVibes


    Oh that happened to my phone for ages. It would ring and ring ..i would answer they would somehow take all my credit.


  • #10
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Was it a scam or not
    I remember I did ring tax office but don’t recognize the number


  • #11
    wiggle16
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    catrat12 wrote: »
    Was it a scam or not
    I remember I did ring tax office but don’t recognize the number

    Revenue now has landline numbers with standard charges. The old numbers were "1890" numbers, not "1590", they got rid of them earlier this year and switched back to landline, and while they were expensive to ring from a mobile you would have needed to be on the phone to them all day to rack up that kind of a bill.

    It's not a tax office. It's a scam.


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  • #12
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    For **** sake but what’s the ten minutes on the bill all about


  • #13
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    catrat12 wrote: »
    Is that a legit number

    http://votemcauliffe.com/revenue-must-do-more-to-stop-new-internet-telephone-scam/

    A piece on them here.


  • #14
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,364 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    wiggle16 wrote: »
    Revenue now has landline numbers with standard charges. The old numbers were "1890" numbers, not "1590", they got rid of them earlier this year and switched back to landline, and while they were expensive to ring from a mobile you would have needed to be on the phone to them all day to rack up that kind of a bill.

    It's not a tax office. It's a scam.

    None of that means the OP didn't make the call in question though.


  • #15
    Ishmael
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    Probably a scam. They get you to call the number and charge you to the hilt for it. The 1590 number doesn't belong to the revenue anyway. There are two dodgy looking websites listed when you google search the number which are taxofficeireland <dot> com and revenue-irish <dot> com.

    Where did you get the number from? Did they ring you first by any chance or a missed called?


  • #16
    ebbsy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,729 ✭✭✭ebbsy


    Email the provider and cc the regulator and ask for a refund.

    Had to do it before and it worked.


  • #17
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Do you get charged if you rang for a second to see who it was or do you have to be on for a bit


  • #18
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    ebbsy wrote: »
    Email the provider and cc the regulator and ask for a refund.

    Had to do it before and it worked.

    Where do I get that detail


  • #19
    Ishmael
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    catrat12 wrote: »
    Do you get charged if you rang for a second to see who it was or do you have to be on for a bit

    Yes, you'd probably be charged if you rang the number and it was answered. 1590 numbers go for around 3 quid a min so it would have had to be much longer than just a second on the phone probably.

    Lots of these scams going around lately it seems.


  • #20
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Lesson learned I think
    Don’t answer calls I don’t know
    Don’t ring back


  • #21
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users Posts: 13,364 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    catrat12 wrote: »
    Lesson learned I think
    Don’t answer calls I don’t know
    Don’t ring back

    Or, y'know, Google the number before you call back.


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  • #22
    catrat12
    Registered Users Posts: 470 ✭✭catrat12


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    Or, y'know, Google the number before you call back.

    That’s the thing I never called back any number
    And yes I did ring tax office in July and got sorted
    Still don’t really know how I got scammed


  • #23
    Vic_08
    Registered Users Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭Vic_08


    catrat12 wrote: »
    That’s the thing I never called back any number
    And yes I did ring tax office in July and got sorted
    Still don’t really know how I got scammed

    It's possible this scam forwards your call to the legitimate revenue switchboard so you are paying them the premium rate fee while you are conducting your business with the department.

    Much better business plan than employing rooms full of people barely able to speak English trying to scam money out of people.


  • #24
    wiggle16
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,022 Mod ✭✭✭✭wiggle16


    Dial Hard wrote: »
    None of that means the OP didn't make the call in question though.

    Are we getting crossed wires? [PUN :D] I know the OP must have rang someone but I mean that it's coincidental that the OP rang Revenue at some point too.

    Unless I am not following this at all.


  • #25
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,656 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    catrat12 wrote: »
    Do you get charged if you rang for a second to see who it was or do you have to be on for a bit
    Depends on the number



    1590 numbers Not exceeding €3.50 per minute


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