OT: Phone Scams

[geoschmo]

dogscoff said:
The worst thing is that she hasn't even committed a crime: You gave her permission to use your phone.

I would be suprised if there wasn't some law being broken here. If nothing else you'd have a pretty much slam dunk case for civil court to recover you damages I would think. And it shouldn't be too hard for some prosecutor to get them on some kind of fraud charge. You gave her permission to use her phone to call her husband, not call some premium service to jack up your phone bill. Maybe a slick lawyer would keep her out of jail, but I can't imagine that the courts wouldn't at least insist she pay the money back.

That's assuming of course you could ever catch the person.