its not funny and its taking people out of the house unfairly.

Very mature... :rolleyes:

There is no cheating in winning.

there is this year.

Do you not "get" that people are being tricked into ringing premium rate numbers? How would you feel if this happened to you?

It just proves to me that SOME fans have no moral compass at all, and like their idols, will do absolutely ANYTHING TO win, even if it is illegal and hurts someone else's pocket.

REPORT ALL SUCH SCAMS, ITS THE ONLY WAY TO TEACH THE FRAUDSTERS A LESSON THEY WON'T FORGET.

Agree 100%

Though I dont actually use twitter, so I'm pretty useless :laugh:

ive never used twitter but i do think its disgusting that spams are happening away from the big brother forum where people might not watch big brother.

lol yeah, I agree with you. I was just messing around.

Scams like this shouldn't be tolerated.

Whatever you want to believe,but it was started to get Ben out intitally,so make of it what you will.

Why?is it important to you?

ignore them ive seen you make loads of threads about ben.

I guess I'm just annoyed that people are being ripped off and I'm not accusing any particular fans - if Ben fans had done it I would have been just as disgusted. It undermines the whole point of BB - that the HM who is most popular with the public and gets the most legitimate votes ends up the winner. I can accept even my most hated HM winning so long as it's fair and square.

The amount of votes that will have come from these scams is less than 1% it will barely effect the result.

Plus if there is a scam to evict one housemate there are other ones to evict others, they will balance each other out.

It's hardly worth worrying about.

It is if some kid is ringing thinking they are going to win something,it's fraud.

I'm not defending the idiots doing this, but if that kid is stupid enough to blindly ring a number they see on Twitter then it's their own fault.

A Simple google search of the number would reveal what it really is.

Don't get me wrong these people doing it should be punished, but what I am saying is that the effect it has on the results is far less that what you are implying.

See the above reply, and also the original post was not about the effect this has on the people ringing the numbers, but the effect it has on the result of the eviction.

Also I am reporting you to the mods for accusing me of "condoning fraud." Don't ever put words in to my mouth again.

Why don't you try actually reading my post instead of going off on one?
:rolleyes: Where have I accused YOU personally of condoning fraud?

"I cannot believe that people on this forum are condoning fraud"

This combined with the fact is was a rely directed to my quote was insinuating that the insult was aimed at me.

Please don't reply to my posts anymore unless you are going to be civil :wavey:

Aw Angus(shakes head)you didn't,why are people so quick to take things the wrong way:conf:

Why are people so quick to be aggressive and throw accusations around? :cat:

How on earth was that aggresive:conf:

I'm talking about Angus' initial reply to my initial post. not yours, you were cool :dance:

He came across quite aggressively.

I don't know why I bother with this forum sometimes. All I want is some conversation and banter about BB, but you can't post anything without someone jumping down your throat.

You can always put me on ignore:xyxwave: Meanwhile I shall continue to reply to all posts with which I agree or disagree since, last time I looked, this was a public forum.

BTW
"It's hardly worth worrying about." This was YOUR response regarding the scams, not mine.

That's cool. The point is you jumped right down my throat without even addressing what I had wrote. My original post was all about how in my opinion these scams have very little bearing on the overall result of the evictions. Nothing to do with the effect it has on people who fall for them.

However you quoted me and then went off on a rant about people being ripped off, which had nothing to do with what I had posted and then implied that I was 'condoning fraud.'

I welcome opposing views and disagreements and even being proved wrong. But I get pissed off with this forum sometimes when people start accusing you of things you have not even said, and have a go at you instead of debating properly.

Anyway let's leave it there shall we or we could end up going round in circles all night :spin:

I'm not bothered - I was actually referring to certain FMs on other threads who have been gloating at how brilliantly the scams worked. Having said that, I went back and re-read his post and my response and I noted that it stated that he didn't think it mattered in terms of numbers of votes, and yet all I pointed out was that it would matter to those who were out of pocket.