Now isn't that interesting? Turns out that network providers can detect when a call is likely to be fraudulent. T-Mobile claimed it couldn't spot that 30+ calls to Romania from Spain in the middle of the night might suggest my phone had been nicked. Yet actually they could. They just wanted my money.
Just as a matter of interest, what do you call someone who benefits from the sale of stolen goods?
I really wanted Orange to be good. After T-Mobile, how could it be anything but better? But while T-Mobile may be harsh, it is efficient. Orange is incompetent.
Turns out the gypsies were a bit more keen on my phone than previously thought. My T-Mobile bill for £431.88 arrived this morning. There were 32 calls to Romania starting at 1 in the morning. Apparently, that's enough for T-Mobile to realise that something's not quite right.
These thieving gypsies are very cunning. While I was at a supposedly closed bar, they managed to lift my camera, phone and money from my jacket, which was hanging on the back of my chair. Thoughtfully, they left the wallet from which they extracted my euros and pounds. Which was nice.
How do I know they were gypsies? Well, I don't. But since they ran up £108 of calls to Romania before T-Mobile noticed this was a bit atypical of me and blocked the phone, I'm taking a wild, punning guess that the Romani were behind it all. They probably weren't, but it makes for an interesting epigram anyway.
