Comments on: The premium rate scandal has caught the wrong culprits

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:41:37 +0000

Well every competition in the world probably has a mechanism to rig the winner if they wanted to. Plus, I don’t really see what the presenter would be expected to do. Call foul live on air? She’d be out of a career for life.

By: Trevor Watson

Trevor Watson — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:10:14 +0000

Your comments that the Brainteaser allegations are minor omit two things.
Firstly thats only what they owned up to,who knows what other skeletons might be in the cupboard.It shows they have the mechanism to rig the winner if they so wished for any other purpose.
Secondly a member of staff went on air posing as a winner.Only two or three researchers work there so why didn’t the presenter recognise the voice? If she was aware of the deception before,during or after and continued to exhort people to phone in subsequently I think the police shoud be investigating how that squares with the 2006 Fraud Act.

By: jameshigham

jameshigham — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:21:32 +0000

Being over here whilst you’re over there, I haven’t seen any of this but I read of it this evening. By the way, LL WA PER PA - that’s PAL RAPE WL, isn’t it? Whoever WL is.