Cellular phone rip off?
A question for the wise!
If I am in country 'x' and I call a normal cellphone number in that same country, but the receiver of the call is outside the country, I pay for a normal call at the normal rate (or it comes out of the bundled minutes,) and the receiver pays the international charges. That at least has always been my understanding and observation.
A friend of mine (in UK) had a huge bill after calling what looked like a normal UK number (07801 .....), he was in the UK and called from his UK cellphone. It's a bit of a long story but behind it is an internet 'love' scam'.
He reckons that the other person was in ..... guess .... Nigeria .... and had some way of charging the international leg of the call back to the caller. Does this make sense?
His UK cellphone provider are 'investigating' but so far cannot offer a plausible explanation.
To me, the above scenario is impossible and doesn't make sense.