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January 17th, 2005, 09:52 AM
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Re: OT: Phone Scams
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The worst thing is that she hasn't even committed a crime: You gave her permission to use your phone.
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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.
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January 17th, 2005, 10:45 AM
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Re: OT: Phone Scams
Err..ok, I'm confused a bit here. You get a phone call..you're told you won a grant of 5k..and you never used an SE4 lines in your reply..such as "YOUR CITIES SHALL BURN IN VENGEFUL FIRE!!!"...Or after the droning of the "we're on the up and up" you never said "You have backed us into a corner there can only be war!"
still...it was funny to read.
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January 17th, 2005, 10:03 PM
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Re: OT: Phone Scams
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Err..ok, I'm confused a bit here. You get a phone call..you're told you won a grant of 5k..and you never used an SE4 lines in your reply..such as "YOUR CITIES SHALL BURN IN VENGEFUL FIRE!!!"...Or after the droning of the "we're on the up and up" you never said "You have backed us into a corner there can only be war!"
still...it was funny to read.
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LOL, next time I get a telemarketer, I'm gonna do this! It'll be great!
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January 17th, 2005, 11:22 AM
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Re: OT: Phone Scams
Geoschmo, the "phone thing" would be a clear fraud in Germany and punishable under penal code.
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January 17th, 2005, 08:16 PM
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Re: OT: Phone Scams
The same thing happened to me. The person seemed hurt that I would not give him my bank account number.
The phone number he gave to so I could check up on him did not work. The web site talked about a service that would help you APPLY for one of many grants ( for a small Fee).
He called back several times. He almost Pleaded with me to give hime my account number so that he could GIVE me the $10,000 the Government was Giving away.
I saw on another site that these calls are a SCAM. They get you in with a free application but with a small handeling charge. Then you never hear from them again.
Boy am I glad I did not bite on this one...
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January 17th, 2005, 08:55 PM
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Re: OT: Phone Scams
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That's assuming of course you could ever catch the person.
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Which is of course, next to impossible. Only large cities and the FBI can track problems like this (in the US). And many large cities don't have a computer division at all for fraud. You have to lose at least $5-10K in order for the police to justify an investigation.
We had a problem with Online sales a few years back and got bit pretty badly.
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