Fraud and Scam News

There are 2 common forms of telephone fraud known as Slamming and Cramming. Both are illegal. Slamming means changing a consumer’Cs long-distance carrier without consent. Cramming is adding to an existing service without permission.
To avoid being this phone scam carefully read your telephone bill each month to check that you have the service you sign […]

Consumers should be aware of “fat finger dialing” a new scheme that can result in high than expected charges when making collect calls.
The fat finger calling scheme is simple phone scam. The scammers simply buy a number that is similar to a large and popular collect calling service. When a consumer places a collect call […]

Instead of trying to sell something over the phone, or get access to personal information the call forwarding scam tries to convince consumers or businesses to help them forward a phone call. In the oldest form of this scam the caller posing as a phone-company technician. These Good, if gullible, Samaritans end up stuck with […]