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Compliance is a 2012 American thriller film based on a true story of a phone scam that tricked a restaurant manager into strip-searching an employee. The cast includes Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, and Bill Camp, and the film premiered at Sundance and received positive reviews.
A series of incidents where a man called restaurants or stores, claiming to be a police officer, and asked managers to conduct humiliating acts on employees or customers. David Richard Stewart was arrested in 2004 for one of the calls, but was acquitted despite phone cards and video evidence.
Scammer Payback, also known as Pierogi, is an American YouTuber who creates content about scam baiting against phone scams. He uses his cybersecurity expertise to infiltrate and expose the scammers' networks and locations, and has collaborated with other scambaiters such as Mark Rober and Jim Browning.
Watch out for these other phone call scams that could steal your money. The post This Is Why You Should Never Call Back an Unknown Number appeared first on Reader's Digest . Not everything is a scam:
Learn how to recognize legitimate AOL websites, requests, and communications to keep your account secure. Avoid scams and phishing attempts by checking the URL, sender, icons, and links of any AOL emails or notifications.
Step away from your phone! If you don't know these new scams identified by the FCC, you could be a target. At this point, everyone has probably received a scam call (or a thousand).
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Scams and confidence tricks are difficult to classify, because they change often and often contain elements of more than one type. Throughout this list, the perpetrator of the confidence trick is called the "con artist" or simply "artist", and the intended victim is the "mark".