Call centre 'scam' details sought
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India's IT trade body urges Britain's Channel 4 to co-operate over a sting alleging call centre data theft.
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That email from your bank may be more than a friendly enquiry. It could be the hook of a Phisher, the new breed of Internet fraudster intent on stealing money by tricking customers into divulging online account details.
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Thousands of credit card numbers and other personal data may have been compromised.
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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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Many consumers believe that credit card come-ons are borderline deceptive. Now, a federal banking watchdog is expressing similar concerns that credit card solicitations promise more than they deliver.
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Premium rate phone lines watchdog Icstis is to meet TV companies amid probes into calls to shows.
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More than a third of Britons believe the level of service they receive from call centres has got worse, a survey says.
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New technology can trick a caller ID box into displaying the name and phone number of an entirely different person or company than the one actually calling.
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By KEVIN G. DeMARRAIS, STAFF WRITER  The Federal Trade Commission warned consumers Wednesday about a scam targeting families of military members.  A caller claiming to work for the Red Cross notifies an individual that a family member has been injured while on duty.
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Â· Force's relationships 'damaged' by investigation Â· Phone calls about suing for racism were tapped
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By Robert Lopez, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 10--The call came on Tuesday. I looked at the caller ID and saw an unfamiliar area code and assumed it was a West Coast publicity agent returning a call for one of several entertainment stories I was working on.
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The amount consumers are charged for making mobile calls while abroad is to be investigated by EU regulators.
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BT has blocked premium rate numbers associated with a net scam that is costing its customers dear.
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Auto-dialler programmes have plagued Irish phone users since the beginning of the year. The Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg) has received some 300 phones calls from consumers regarding excessive
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A service is accused of $200 million in false charges for dishonest online sellers and telemarketers.
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Why settle for just emptying an online bank account? Scammers conned both a mortgage firm and a bank to hit an IT director for Â£60,000. UK police are hunting the gang responsible for the scam, and at least nine others like it, that are estimated to have netted ID fraudsters hundreds of thousands of pounds, The Times reports.â¦
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New threat: Phishing attempts that ask the victim to call their bank to reactivate a credit card, then provide a false phone number.