Vincent Lai and Andy Soh were sitting in a class on entrepreneurship at Singapore Management University when they received an unexpected phone call.

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We wouldn't quite call it an unexpected turn of events, but it certainly qualifies as dramatic -- Motorola has pulled almost every Android device in its roster from its German site, leaving only the RAZR HD and RAZR i behind.

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David, from Leigh in Essex, had the same thought when he had a similar call from Santander following an unexpected payment he had made by cheque.

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