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y j- j w c- economist sunhribuhecrljsle saturday sept 2 2000 businesses end up paying for longdistance phone charges roups warn by joan ransberry staff writer scam artists are making phone calls all over the world and getting unsuspecting busi nesses to pay for them lbcat business groups have joined the peel regional police and the ontario provincial police in warning the public including- thebusiness community about frauds linked to the telephone and the computer j ruth burkholder chief administrative officer forvthe markham board of tradesaid many of the telephone calls are being made from prisons while the callers- claim to be phone technicians checking the tele phone lines theyre really thieves people answering the phones are asked to punch a few num- bers and then hang up once they hang up the callers have free worldwide access to long distance telephone service burkholder advises not to press numbers for anyone iu you comply with the callers wishes youll give mat person- and others complete access to your phone to make calls which are charged to your number t6ariywhere in tfie world said burkholder in addition investigators from the peel regional police have issued an email alert advising the public to use cau- tion when getting involved with peoplebver the internet potential victims are contact ed either by email or fax the originators may claim to be a representative of a nigerian government agency in one case a victim was taken for more than 30000 police report in this particular scam the recipient is urged to provide the sender with personal informa tion such as name address and bank account information relat ing to their business the sender will claim he wishes to transfer millions into the recipients account and that a commission will be paid for use of the account now comes the hook said detsgt manuel rodrigues the recipient has to send thousands of dollars to nigeria to facilitate the transfer of the funds of course- once the cash has been sent the victim never hears from the originator again said rodrigues- scams the federal government through industry canada has joined the fight against email scams while the workload for the opps phone busters contin ues to increase said opp fraud specialist kyle lariviere one of the best defences against such scams is public education stressed lariviere education is one of the key components in fighting this type of thing informing the public is sb important he said the public especially seniors must be made aware that these types of scams are with us again said helen johnson president of the stouffville chamber of commerce for goodness sake lets make sure all of bur community is aware no community is immune stouffville has been stung in the past it could hap pen again johnson said investigation continues in seniors crash the investigation continues after an 80yearold woman drove her car through the plate glass window of a markham scotiabank branch wednesday afternoon 4 staffsgt al ledger said 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