Two More Phone-In Scams Come to Light

[Teddy Bear]

Just heard on the 7 O'Clock News that 2 more phone-in scams have been revealed. One where a BBC employee 'won', and the second where they used a fictitious name for the winner, and the programme had actually been recorded while the phone-in was being conducted. Tomorrows papers will probably run more details on it and I'll post something as it comes in.

This is the 'trust' that the BBC wants to regain from the public, and shows clearly the type of criminal mentality that pervades the BBC. Fraud is permitted so long as you think you can get away with it.

It's also insidious that the government deems it to be a crime if the public don't pay for this organisation to continue. In mafia terms - it's a legalised protection racket, and even the way the advertisements are worded to scare people to pay their license fee or face conviction, are the type of threat that protection racketeers use.

Moral people have a moral duty not to pay it. For those wishing to know their rights in this regard I suggest this site which gives a lot of great information to empower you.

[Teddy Bear]

Russell Brand and Jo Whiley hit by new phone-in scandals at BBC
Last updated at 18:53pm on 24th January 2008

The BBC has admitted to two fresh phone-in cons, this time involving Russell Brand and Jo Whiley.

An edition of Brand's 6Music radio show was billed as live but was pre-recorded - and a member of staff posed as a competition winner.

Listeners who called or texted to take part had no chance of winning.

Radio 1 star Jo Whiley's show has been found guilty of faking a competition entrant for the second time.

On this occasion, production staff made up the name of a competition participant.

It occurred three weeks after another fake winner was put on air, an incident which came to light in October.