At a premium

Ann Miller (who?) called us today asking for prices for our rooms. She said that her internet connection wasn’t working - could we fax or phone her with prices?

Well, we could, but we aren’t going to…

…and the reason (as lots of other accommodation providers will already know) is that both numbers supplied have the 0872 prefix which, while not a top rate premium number is still firmly in the scam category.

That’s probably the mildest form of scam around, but there are plenty others with exiled Nigerian princes in touch every second day. Granddaddy of them all is the Swiss CD-ROM scam which arrives with monotonous regularity every six months or so. Postmarked Lucerne it describes itself as a european tourist directory distributed on CD. In large print at the top it encourages you to fill in your details for free addition to their directory and in much, much smaller print at the bottom it mentions that doing so will commit you to paying them 970 Euros for the next three years. I bet it’s run by lawyers! Best advice is to screw it in a ball and throw it in the bin.