VM Crackdown, no box is safe !

[trevor1969]

i am 1 of us that do not beleive any of this ,but only today i was told by my m8 he received a letter as the 1 above up till now i have not beleived any of this but my m8 brought the starview from off another well known forum who have now with drawn and only help on a fta basis so i would imagine the said site as been visited by some1 ,lets becarful out there

[trevor1969]

also i just been on fleabay and you can not buy a single starview or eurovox any kind of cable box .some thing is happening lads distributors look like they ~~~ed on fleabay

[cantona7]

oh well had mine over two years so i should be ok
and if not hey ho it was good while it lasted

seriousy i reckon its yet another storm in a t cup about nowt

so what a few fleabayers who have been ripping people off have been caught,not surprising is it really when you flog your wares on the worlds biggest market is it,i got no sympathy for them,but i do feel sorry for the people who bought them and have been grassed up.

hey ho tomorrows another day!!!

[Devilfish]

well i just phoned the number and it is the fraud line for sure

I hope you did 141 beforehand . Or used a phonebox hehehe.

[father ted]

I hope you did 141 beforehand . Or used a phonebox hehehe.

ours has its own exchange at work so it goes out as an unidentified number mind you i nearly died when she said fraud squad i was gonna say hi am devilfish how you doing

[ireland-batt]

bring in on you ~~~~ers you will never take my box alive

[vrlika]

Yeah I just got mine yesterday and I am going to enjoy it. we are all in the same boat here so threads like these keep us aware of whats going on behind the VM closed doors.
It's like a storm with lot's of lightning and very little rain.

[bigup]

another one doing the rounds, taken from another forum.

[McMav]

Hmm not going to take legal action. Hardly sounds realistic is there a cope of the envelope it came in? The way it is worded makes me think it is fake.

[wooper]

I would say standard, blind, post out from list they have got from some fleabay sellers.

Got mine sent to work addy, and bank details are at my mums house with no cable.

Would be funny to see if I get a letter.

As an aside, if we could determine where people who get a letter bought the box, we would get a good idea of how virgin got the addy.

[johninboro]

Totally impossible, VM can NOT trace a dodgy box over thier network, they can only locate it to within 800 homes MAX.

[kr4sh]

Has anyone actually had a fine for using a decoding flashed STB? all the engineers I've ever met don't seem to care.

But really, has anyone actually ever been fined? or is it always just a C&D (cease and desist) letter?

[harry1986]

to be honest i dont give a peep im guna watch anything i like no cops cant do anything i got loads of mates who are in law.

[kb27]

I don't think mocking this is a good idea. Yes, we do hear these scare stories every few months or so, but one day, just one day one of them might turn out to be true.

I'm in Sheffield, and it's got me twitching a little! Especially as a mate has phoned me THIS MORNING to say his box has gone off, and is showing a message something to the effect of "Your analogue TV service has come to an end. Please phone Vermin on 0800 etc to discuss a digital tv package".

Be wary peeps - nothing is impossible.

[Donnie Darko]

Its well known the analogue service is ceasing,this is the reason for the message on screen.