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  2. Phone fraud - Wikipedia

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    Similar government impersonation scams include the SSA impersonation scam. Every day, hundreds of scam calls are received on the US mainland which offer the recipients grant money from the Federal Government, but requesting a "small administration fee", [11] although there are no fees associated with applying for or receiving a government grant.

  3. One.Tel - Wikipedia

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    One.Tel was a group of Australian-based telecommunications companies, principally the publicly-listed One.Tel Limited (ACN 068 193 153), established in 1995 soon after deregulation of the Australian telecommunications industry, most of which are currently under external administration by court appointed liquidators.

  4. Mobile tower fraud - Wikipedia

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    India is a country with 29 states and 8 union territories spreading across 3,287,240 square km with a population of 1,028,737,436 [3] and a wireless teledensity of 78.93. . Mobile phones are being used as the prime tool for contacting the target victims, whereas the internet, print media, television are being used as media to communicate the schemes, business plan, goods and services to the ...

  5. What You Need to Know About Phone Scams - AOL

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    Phone scams are on the rise as scammers see opportunity thanks to many Americans getting stimulus checks, an increase in concern about COVID vaccine distribution and soon, the annual tax season.

  6. AI voice scams are on the rise. Here's how to protect yourself.

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    Phone numbers also can be spoofed to mimic those of callers known to the target of voice cloning scams. In 2023, senior citizens were conned out of roughly $3.4 billion in a range of financial ...

  7. Google must face mobile phone privacy class action, possible ...

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    (Reuters) -Google failed to persuade a federal judge to dismiss a privacy class action claiming it collected personal data from people's cellphones after they switched off a button to stop the ...

  8. Telemarketing fraud - Wikipedia

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    Crawler devices - A majority of fraudulent calls originate from Nigerian phone scammers, who claim $12.7 billion a year off phone scams. [23] Some callers have to make up to 1000 calls per day. To help with speeding things up, they will sometimes use crawler devices which is computerized to go through every area code calling each number.

  9. High-yield investment program - Wikipedia

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    A high-yield investment program (HYIP) is a type of Ponzi scheme, an investment scam that promises unsustainably high return on investment by paying previous investors with the money invested by new investors. [1]