Police Warning

Got this from a website:

As urban-legends website Snopes confirms, these are spoof emails, designed to play on our fears of being ripped off. ICSTIS, which regulates premium-rate telephone lines in the UK, has confirmed that these rumours are untrue. The most expensive premium-rate (090) numbers charge £1.50 a minute.

Thus, these scams are nothing more than hoaxes – it's the emails themselves that are the trick! By forwarding them to everyone in your address book, you are wasting your time and that of hundreds of other people. So, the next time that you receive a weird email of this type, check Snopes first - or just delete it. Otherwise, you join the growing list of gullible hoaxers
 
well one way to solve that one is to ask bt to put a barr on all premium rate numbers like i have that way of course u can use my phone.
That also helps if you were to get a dialer on your pc.
 
There is an easier way to stop dialers being downloaded - just be vigilant. I know a lot of people who just click on 'Yes' or 'OK' without actually checking what they are accepting.

If you are not online and just installing a game then that's generally pretty safe, but if you are online, look out for them, because they are becoming more common
 
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