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Phone scam exploits service for hearing impaired to swindle local …
TMCnet
When mixed together with a dash of deceit the ingredients bake into a phone scam that has left several local restaurateurs boiling. Story continues below ↓. Not to mention the scam nearly cost the business $500 in lasagna. Bruno’s has been targeted by at least 40 of the fraudulent phone calls in the past two months according to Sammartino.
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.
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.
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