Modem fraud forces Irish call ban
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Direct dial phone calls from Ireland to 13 other countries are to be blocked because of an internet fraud. Hundreds of Irish phone users have run up large bills due to auto-dialling fraud or modem hijacking.
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British telephone users now have a new code prefix - 056 - for VoIP numbers with cyberspace locations. The United Kingdom&#39;s media and telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has released plans to help the take
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- The Dutch telecommunications watchdog has issued its first fines under the nation&#39;s ban on spam. The highest single fine - for $61,000 - went to a person involved with four spam e
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Business & money: Consumer group Which? calls for ban on mobile phone cashback deals
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Irish banks unite Irish banks have responded to internet scams such as phishing by setting up a forum to share information on high-tech crime.â¦
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A Web-based information broker has been ordered to stop selling telephone records without owners' consent and to turn over nearly $200,000 in profits.
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Government minister describes television phone-in deception as 'almost daylight robbery'.
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THE REPUBLIC of Ireland is to block direct dial telephone calls to 13 countries in an effort to crack down on growing internet scams.
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Operators slash costs ahead of EU legislation Minister for Communications Noel Dempsey has praised Irish mobile operators for introducing new tariffs designed at reducing roaming costs in Ireland and the UK.â¦
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Ireland's telecom regulator said this week that is taking "extraordinary" measures to protect Internet users from rogue autodialer programs that hijack their modems and run up long-distance phone charges by suspending direct dialing to 13 countries, most of which are South Pacific islands.
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In an effort to stop internet dialler scams - where unwitting surfers are put onto premium rate connections - Ireland is going to block calls to 13 countries.
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TelefÃ³nica claims clear conscience O2 parent company TelefÃ³nica has protested innocence after it was slammed by European anti-trust regulators for gaming the broadband market in its Spanish home territory.â¦
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CallWall is a new utility that acts like a firewall for your telephone, enabling you to whitelist and blacklist callers.
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Switch back The 45,000 disconnected Smart Telecom customers should have some phone services returned within three days following 'intensive discussions' between Eircom and telecoms regulator ComReg.â¦
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Rip-off alert will give you a chance to hang up Telecoms regulator Ofcom has ordered that from September, callers to so-called "personal numbers", which start with the digits 070, must hear a warning on the call's cost for free before being connected if the call will cost more than 20 pence.â¦
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Ireland will block calls to 13 countries, most of them tiny islands in the Pacific, to crack down on a new scam in which internet users&#39; log-on connections are secretly diverted through rip-off telephone numbers.
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States with restrictions or bans on recorded political phone calls: