Hello Forum, I hope this content is acceptable to the staff here, I have read the rules and from my understanding it should be but if it isn't I am willing to make a separate forum just for this campaign. First who am I looking for? I am looking for people who have been the victim of telephone fraud or are otherwise interested in campaigning for a sensible change in the way telecommunications companies handle the situation. Today my family and I have discovered someone stole one of our telephones and has run up rather a lot of money in phone charges on them. It's my belief that telephone companies could easily detect this activity based on the two following arguments: 1) Banks already do it 2) I'm a relatively skilled computer programmer and could probably write the program to do it myself, in a matter of weeks, including testing. So the question is, why haven't they? I don't know if it's simply because they haven't thought of it or enjoy the profit's fraudsters are making at the expensive of other people. What I do know, is that if someone who never (or even rarely) makes international calls or premium rate service calls suddenly starts making huge of mounts of them a day, is that it CAN and SHOULD should be marked as a possible fraud attempt by the telecommunication providers and the telephone line making those calls should be called and made to verify security questions in order to prevent this happening. While I can think of one way this could be abused by fraudsters, the identity of the caller as the telecommunication provider can be verified by their blocking the line rather than just jamming it. And I want to make them do this for two reasons: 1) So nobody else has to suffer what we are now 2) Revenge, so they will lose that revenue they are gaining by not taking this easy counter-measure against a common crime. If you are interested in helping, please reply in here, write to your MP and get any friends you think might be interested in helping to join too. I hope that we can share a common goal and bring about this rational change legally, sensibly and that telecommunications companies will no longer be so easily able to gain profit from the crimes of others, as while they are, there is no incentive for them to stop. I will be contacting radio stations, watchdog and anywhere else I can think of to try and add weight to this campaign. There will be petitions and there will be a change. Until that day we will never stop and will never forget. Let's take back the power and stop allowing this easy profiteering of the back of the proceeds of crimes.