Letter received in the post today reads simply:

Telemessage

(My name & address here...)

Private and Confidential

URGENT

Dear Mr Fletcher,

Please contact us immediately on 08700100563 quoting reference 05011600063223816

Lines are open between 9.00am and 9.00pm Monday-Thursday and between 9.00am and 8pm Friday.



What's truly bizarre is the footer of the letter. It says:

Registered office - 81 Newgate Street, LONDON EC1A 7AJ. Registered in England No. 1800000.
British Telecommunications PLC has no responsibility for the contents of this message or for the decision to send it.

I'll bet they bloody don't! Now if (and I don't belive it can be) this is a communication from BT, they've lost the plot.

If (more likely) this is from some idiot mass mailing people from a database he found somewhere in order to get them to call his national rate number so he can make a couple of pounds out of the general publics' inbuilt gullibility I wonder how much he'll make.

Are the British public REALLY this stupid?