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- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 93 00:56:39 EST
- From: Tony Harminc <TONY@VM1.MCGILL.CA>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: 976 Fraud in Toronto
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 10, Message 3 of 11
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- This past November, a company I consult for had three unauthorized
- calls to (416) 976-9467 made on one of its lines. Each call was one
- minute long and was billed at $24. Thinking back, we remember the
- likely perpetrator -- a man claiming to be serving legal papers on
- someone who supposedly used to work at the office address. There were
- several small discrepancies to his story, but he seemed just as
- puzzled as we were. He asked to use the phone, and I remember that he
- did a lot of dialing, but when challenged he showed a pager with
- display and claimed he was calling his voicemail.
-
- Bell Canada has agreed to remove the charges, but will not tell us the
- name of the owner of this number. We are not eager to pursue it with
- the police, because of the small amount of the fraud, but we are
- concerned that this may be part of an organized scam (else how would
- the 'process server' benefit?) and others may also have been hit. The
- $24 charge is quite a bit higher than the usual sex and sleaze lines
- which -- according to the ads -- are mostly $10.
-
- We have cleaned up our act for handling of future visitors who want to
- use the phone (for now we dial it, and toll restrictors are coming
- soon), but I would like 1) suggestions for how to pursue this, and
- 2) to hear from anyone else in 416 who has been hit with calls to this
- number. Perhaps someone in an adjacent NPA could dial it and let me
- know who answers.
-
-
- Many thanks.
-
- Tony Harminc
-
-