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- Audio link: Peyton Charles gets cold called
- Video: How to stop cold calling and make $500 from them to boot -us
- Video: Ever felt that the telemarketer didn’t really care?
- Prank #25: Hang ups
- Prank #16: Enterprise bargaining agreement
- Name changed to ‘Pppppppppprice’ in a genuine but eccentric bid to stop cold-callers
- Video: Malware threat by antivirus scammer exposed on virtual machine
- Video: hilarious satire of cold-calling Indian pitching a two-bit, tinhorn, half-pie, end-of-the-pier, strictly-for-the-birds script.
- ‘Boiler room’ hoax for New Zealand share holders -nz
- Firms keep testing the limits of Do-Not-Call list -us
- Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC) fines firms $945,000 for no-call violations
- Interview with the man behind Comantra, the “cold call virus scammers”
- Cold calling percentages
- Beware of native language call scams – au
- Prank #36: Is anybody out there?
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Tag Archives: fraud
Why Don’t Phones Lets Us Record Calls (two way)? -ca
This was originally posted with a Canadian audience in mind, but it has relevance here in Australia and, I suspect, in most third world countries generally. Brain Jones, the author, is a programmer and works full time in the telecommunications … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged accountable, fighting fraud, fraud, phone, PSTN, record phone calls, recording device, scammer, telemarketer
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Video: How to stop cold calling and make $500 from them to boot -us
Posted in About telemarketing
Tagged $500, Call centre, cell phone, cold caller, Cold calling, court, do not call, do not call list, Do Not Call Register, fraud, Robocall, suing, telemarketer, telemarketing, unsolicited, video
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Prank #25: Hang ups
#25. Hang ups – Ω TELEMARKETER: “Hello Mrs. Dong, we are affiliated with Macrohard Technologies; and in monitoring the internet it has come to our attention that your computer has a number of errors which makes it prone to attack … Continue reading
Posted in Pranks pranks pranks
Tagged attack, caper, cold caller, Cold calling, computer, event viewer, fraud, hang up, hook, Humor, Microsoft, prank, pranking, scam, scammer, telemarketer, telepest, unsolicited
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Video: Malware threat by antivirus scammer exposed on virtual machine
Noah Magram, principal software engineer at security vendor Sourcefire, was called while at home by a fake antivirus company. He decided to see exactly what they do when a person grants access, only he gave them access to a virtual machine … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged cold caller, fraud, malware, Noah Magram, remote control, scam, scammer, Security, Sourcefire, technology, telemarketer, telepest, trickster, virtual machine
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Beware of native language call scams – au
Ask yourself: Is this an in-law or an outlaw calling? SCAMwatch (Australia) is advising consumers to beware of scammers who phone requesting money, speaking in the consumer’s native language including Serbian, Croatian, Polish and others. These callers will often say … Continue reading
Posted in Making the news
Tagged cold caller, fraud, native language call, overseas, relative, scam, scammer, telemarketer, unexpected call, unsolicited, unsolicited call
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