Hang up on telephone fraud
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- Hang up on telephone fraud
- Europe to outlaw premium-rate phone scams
- Wall St. Firms Fall Victim To Costly Telephone Scam
- Inmates suspected in call scam.
- WashingtonPost.com: Canada Special Report
- Mobile phone fraud claims more victims
Hang up on telephone fraud
MarketWatch – Sep 20, 2005
Telephone scams in particular appeal to consumers’ love of receiving something good (i. money gifts or travel) for a nominal fee.
Europe to outlaw premium-rate phone scams
Times Online – Feb 24, 2005
Used on article pages to rotate the images of a story. The Office of Fair Trading revealed last month that Britons are cheated out of at least £1 billion a year by the sham calls and by rogue internet trading. Diana Wallis a Liberal Democrat MEP said that the EU-wide ban will make it illegal to target consumers with misleading telephone calls or websites. “These scams are a real headache. Not only are the calls an unwanted nuisance they can also end up costing a lot of money for vulnerable and unsuspecting people” she said.
Wall St. Firms Fall Victim To Costly Telephone Scam
New York Times – Nov 6, 1995
So when word filtered into the brokerage community last month that calls to a prank telephone number were leaving unsuspecting callers in stitches the number was quickly passed around for the benefit of the curious. But not for the benefit of their employers. The phone number apparently linked to a voice-activated recording designed to keep callers on the line was part of a pay-per-call service in Hong Kong that works like a “900″ number in the United States. The automatic minimum charge: up to $65 a call.
Inmates suspected in call scam.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jan 19, 2006
(19-JAN-06) Chicago Tribune (Chicago IL). 19–Cook County Jail officials are investigating a telephone scam that preys on victims by informing them a loved one is injured or dead a spokesman said Wednesday.
WashingtonPost.com: Canada Special Report
Washington Post – Aug 24, 1997
I am too trusting I guess. I am 71 years old and I should have known better. Working from “boiler room” phone banks in Montreal Toronto and Vancouver or running “rip and tear” operations that move from hotel to hotel Canada-based scam artists have been targeting the elderly in the United States with increasingly elaborate aggressive and costly schemes. They now account for about one-third of the telemarketing fraud complaints received by Canadian and U. authorities; in the most recent statistics compiled by the U… -based scams still account for an estimated 64 percent of the total in the two countries with some schemes such as one using travel to Florida as a lure targeted at Canadians. Cross-border prosecutions are increasing. officials in Seattle last week indicted six British Columbia residents on 113 postal customs and other alleged violations in connection with a lottery ticket scheme that collected as much as $70 million annually from U.
Mobile phone fraud claims more victims
BBC News – Sep 16, 1999
Crooks are paying for their calls using strangers’ credit card or bank account details. Now BBC News Online has learned that the scams are not limited to BT Cellnet pre-pay mobiles or credit cards. Some Orange phone users have been racking up bills at the expense of credit card holders.
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