Comment: The last call for conmen.LAST week we warned the telephone conmen - we've we've Contraction of we have. we've have got your number! Now they know that we were not bluffing. Just seven days later, the Sunday Mercury Sunday Mercury is a Sunday newspaper published in Birmingham, UK. A tabloid, with a sensationalist streak, it is owned by Trinity Mirror and produced in the same newsroom as The Birmingham Post and The Evening Mail. References 1. can reveal that the Government has joined our campaign. Patricia Hewitt Patricia Hope Hewitt (born 2 December 1948) is a British politician. She is the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester West and the former Secretary of State for Health. , minister for e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. and small business, is backing our crusade against the shady businessmen who exploit premium rate phone lines. Our dossier on the abuse of the system clearly had a great impact on the minister, who wasted no time in agreeing that it was time to Pull The Plug. She has promised to press for much tighter restrictions on who is allowed to operate these lines. That should spell the end for the 'phone phonies' who cause so much misery. No wonder we pride ourselves on being the newspaper that gets results . |
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