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News from the Elite GTE security force
What follows is a press release from GTE of California. It talks about
Scam or Social-Engineering type fraud, and shows how clever those nasty
phone phreaks can be. The scams themselves have obviously been overused
to the point of being noticed by the alert fraud-squad at GTE, so their
use would not be e recommended.
GTE California
NEWS One GTE Place
Thousand Oaks Ca 91362-3811
For Release August 12, 1993
Summary: CON ARTISTS DEVISE NEW PHONE-CALLING SCAMS; GTE WARNS
CUSTOMERS: DON'T DISCLOSE PIN NUMBERS OR OKAY CERTAIN 3RD-PARTY
CALLS.
(Thousand Oaks, Calif) - Con Artistsare putting a new spin in
phone fraud, GTE California warns its customers today.
"We want our customers to be on guard against people
misrepresenting themselves as GTE employees, long distance phone
company employees or officials of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation or the Federal Communications Commission," said Lou
Banas, GTE's local public affairs manager.
"These imposters are calling our customers and asking for
their personal identification numbers (PIN) for their calling
cards. And in some cases, these con artists are asking customers
to approve third-party calls under the pretense of catching
phone-fraud 'crooks.'"
"Once the customer gives out this confidential information,
the con artist begins charging calls to the customers calling
card or phone account."
Banas said phone-fraud artists continue to be inventive.
However, customers can help thwart these imposters by using
common sense.
"First, don't give out your PIN number to anyone except an
operator, and only when you've initiated that call," he said.
"GTE will never ask a customer for his or her calling card
number."
"Don't approve third-party billed calls for anyone other
than family members, or someone you know or can identify. And if
we (GTE) truly are conducting an investigation, we alread have
the customer's billing and proprietary phone information, so we
will not ask for it over the phone."
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