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Telephone Scams
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Pressing #-9-0 on your telephone allows scammers to make long-distance calls and charge them to your phone bill.
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Scammers lure unsuspecting phone customers into placing calls to the 809 area code.
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Cards from a "Parcel Delivery Service" notifying recipients of parcels awaiting delivery were part of a premium rate telephone scam.
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Text message to "hubby" on stolen phone nets purse snatcher the PIN he uses to empty the couple's bank account.
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Con artist pretending to be phone company rep makes it appear he can cause your phone to stop working.
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Scammers pretending to be from Microsoft gain remote access to users' computers and/or strip their bank accounts.
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Those who return hang up calls from numbers beginning with 375 or 371 incur $15 to $30 charges.
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