Garden City Business Falls Victim to Check Scam
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- Garden City Business Falls Victim to Check Scam
- Press 9 for vacation ‘” really
- LETTER F THE DAY – How to get evidence in lottery scam cases
- Laramie County woman foils scam.
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Garden City Business Falls Victim to Check Scam
WTC – Dec 18, 2006
Rosalind had phone calls from California Texas Florida Maryland Pennsylvania Illinois and North Carolina. “The list is growing” she said. She's just happy people seem to be onto the scam. “It was a pleasant surprise to get telephone calls from people wanting to know if the program was valid instead of depositing it in the bank” Rosalind said. “Throw them in the garbage. It's actually trash. This is a learning process for us one I hope we never use again.
Press 9 for vacation ‘” really
CBC.ca – Dec 18, 2006
Rumours have been spreading that the automated phone calls allow scam artists access to your long distance telephone lines but in fact says Phonebusters pressing nine will simply link you to a sales representative. “It’s a legitimate pitch but it’s a sales tactic” said John Shultz of Phonebusters. ”When I call you up and say you have won a vacation you’re automatically thinking it’s free?”You’re going to get a vacation package it just may not be the package you think you’re going to get. The calls are from a legitimate Canadian company on a marketing campaign to sell timeshares. Phonebusters has received so many calls from people worried that their phone lines have been stolen they’ve taken the unusual step of putting a message on their answering machine informing people the calls are not a scam.
LETTER F THE DAY – How to get evidence in lottery scam cases
Jamaica Gleaner – Dec 18, 2006
These are a deposition is taken in the United States by a registered professional reporter who swears the witness before an attorney for the prosecution who leads the evidence and an attorney for the defendant who would cross-examine. The transcript would come to the Jamaican courts and admitted in evidence. The other (easier) means is a telephone deposition where the witness in the United States is sworn by the registered professional reporter and by a speakerphone arrangement the attorneys in Jamaica for the prosecution and for the defence examine and cross-examine the witness. The evidence is recorded and certified by the reporter and sent to the Jamaican court… These are a deposition is taken in the United States by a registered professional reporter who swears the witness before an attorney for the prosecution who leads the evidence and an attorney for the defendant who would cross-examine. The transcript would come to the Jamaican courts and admitted in evidence. The other (easier) means is a telephone deposition where the witness in the United States is sworn by the registered professional reporter and by a speakerphone arrangement the attorneys in Jamaica for the prosecution and for the defence examine and cross-examine the witness. The evidence is recorded and certified by the reporter and sent to the Jamaican court. My being a registered professional reporter with the National Court Reporters Association in the U. (an international body) over the last 35 years I have taken depositions in Jamaica on behalf of at least 10 states of the United States where the attorneys from the U.
Laramie County woman foils scam.
Free with registration – Wyoming Tribune-Eagle – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 18, 2006
Hess listed a 1989 Pontiac van for sale in a classified ad in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle and found that she apparently hooked herself a Nigerian advance-fee scam artist. “I could tell right away that something was wrong” Hess said recently but she didn’t know at first she was dealing with someone overseas. Hess is concerned that she’s not the only mark singled out by the scam and she knows other people who have been taken in by similar attempts. “They are touching on people who are hurting” Hess said. Some people sell their cars not because they are upgrading but because they.
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Vox nline News – Dec 18, 2006
The scam involves the victim receiving a telephone call from somebody claiming to be from the Security and Fraud department of a Credit Card company usually Visa or MasterCard. The victim is then duped into revealing the three-digit security code which is found on the rear of the Credit Card. nce the caller has obtained this number they are able to use it to make purchases on the Internet. The RGP warns members of the public that Credit Card companies would not ask these sorts of questions over the telephone from their clients. The RGP urges members of the public to refrain from disclosing any information regarding their credit cards if they receive a call of this nature.
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Water Technology nline – Dec 18, 2006
ne variation of the scam begins when a dealer is contacted by telephone with the aid of a hearing-impaired device the WQA noted. The caller orders various water treatment products including reverse osmosis equipment and pumps using several credit cards and asks that the products be shipped overseas the alert said. According to the WQA one pump installer targeted by the scam received an order from a caller claiming to be in Seymour IN who asked that the products be shipped to Ethiopia. The installer was ready to ship about $9700 worth of product when he discovered that the credit card used to make the purchase was stolen the WQA noted. To read the full fraud alert click.
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