Chinese police detain 1400 people in telephone scams
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- Chinese police detain 1400 people in telephone scams
- Don’t be fooled by phone scam
- Tired of automated sales calls? Creve Coeur man documents the pain
- Due diligence can help residents avoid scams
- Woman accused in Nassau County jail phone scam
- Telephone Scam Warning
- Bail for Brit girls accused of fraud in Brazil
Chinese police detain 1400 people in telephone scams
Xinhua
Police identified almost 3000 scams and seized 12. 48 million yuan (1.
Don’t be fooled by phone scam
Morehead News
The Kentucky Attorney General’s ffice and the Better Business Bureau warn folks to refrain from revealing financial information over the phone to those people because it’s a scam. “We are not taking formal complaints” said Heather Clary Director of Communications for BBB for Central and Eastern Kentucky. “We have taken hundreds of calls and emails about receiving the ‘robocalls’ in the last two months alone on top of the other scams. ”She said none of the people who called reporting the phone calls to BBB could say who the companies were or where they were from. In fact the phone numbers displayed on the consumer’s caller IDs were proven to be fake.
Tired of automated sales calls? Creve Coeur man documents the pain
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The technique makes it difficult to track the companies and allows them to violate consumer protection laws. Doug mmen chief counsel for the Missouri attorney general’s office says consumers need to always be alert. The do-not-call list is only one line of defense against telephone scam artists and prosecuting violators can be difficult because many of the calls originate in other countries. 100 MESSAGES SAVEDBush does freelance public relations and photography and has been a longtime Libertarian activist. He has a second phone line at his home for his volunteer efforts and he decided to use it to record automated calls on an answering machine. At first he played the messages for friends to get a few laughs. But as he started researching robo-calling and marketing scams he couldn’t find an actual example of such a call online.
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Due diligence can help residents avoid scams
Friday Flyer
ther scammers may claim to be from the IRS. The Internal Revenue Service has previously warned taxpayers to beware of e-mail and telephone scams that make it appear as though the IRS is contacting the recipient regarding rebates alleged refunds audits and more. Such scams try to lure taxpayers into giving bank account credit card or personal information. “Under no circumstances will the IRS send proactive e-mails to taxpayers alerting them to refunds audits or anything similar” according to Raphael Tulino with IRS Media Relations. The goal of most e-mail and telephone scammers is to gain access to personal information for identity theft and to have access to bank and credit card accounts for the purpose of emptying the unsuspecting taxpayer’s financial accounts obtaining loans filing fraudulent tax returns and conducting other crimes. Most of the fraudulent activity can be conducted electronically in a short amount of time but can take the victim months or even years to clean up the financial destruction.
Woman accused in Nassau County jail phone scam
Newsday
Phone scams among inmates are not new. Some inmates have devised strategies in which they make a collect call then convince the receiver to forward the call to another number by dialing *72 making that person serve as a middleman and also sticking him or her with the bill. In hio inmates used text telephone yoke devices for the hearing impaired to commit credit card fraud terrorize victims coordinate drug transactions and import weapons. Some states recently asked the Federal Communications Commission to jam signals from cell phones inmates smuggle into prison.
Telephone Scam Warning
AboutMyArea
The M is:-A professional sounding adult male phones the victim (victims chosen are listed in the phone directory) stating he is calling from BT Collection Service because money is owed to BT. The caller states that the (victims) bank has stopped the Direct Debit and that money is immediately owed else the phone will be cut off. The amount that is allegedly ‘owed' has been less than £10 (typically £9 ). The caller requires the victims credit card details so that payment can be made.
Bail for Brit girls accused of fraud in Brazil
AFP
Andrews and Turner both recent law graduates on a nine-month round-the-world vacation were arrested on Monday. They had gone to police to declare 2100 dollars worth of possessions had been stolen days earlier on a bus trip to Rio from southern Brazil. fficers however discovered some of the items listed as stolen — including a mobile telephone camera and iPod — during a search of their room in a Copacabana hostel. Rio police had been suspicious because of the delay in reporting the robbery the fact the women’s passports had not been stolen and a rise in the number of foreign tourists declaring such crimes in apparent attempts to pocket the insurance money. Although fraud carries the risk of up to five years in prison in Brazil the Rio court official who decided their bail Sergio Verani said incarceration was a “remote possibility” for the Britons if they were convicted. Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved.
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