Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!telecom-request From: fec@mhuxo.att.com (F E Carey) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wanted: Stories of Corporate Toll Fraud Message-ID: Date: 15 Mar 91 07:43:15 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 207, Message 5 of 9 KEITH MAYDAK wrote (on the Telecom Library BBS): > Subj: TOLL-FRAUD > OUR FIRM IS INTERESTED IN TALKING TO COMPANIES THAT WERE VICTIMIZED BY > TOLL-FRAUD. WE ARE DOING A RESEARCH REPORT FOR SEVERAL FORTUNE 500 > FIRMS. YOUR HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED - COMPLETELY CONFIDENTIAL!!! > 800-969-1CSA ... call anytime ask for "KIRK" CALL US RIGHT NOW TO > DISCUSS WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU. Good luck. Most companies are extremely reluctant to disclose such losses. This is one reason that loss estimates range so wildly - from under a million per year to over a billion a year. I'd suggest you start with the Communications Fraud Control Association Rami Aburhamdeh, Executive Director, 7921 Jones Branch Drive, Suite 300, McLean, VA 22102 (703/848-9768. Recent court cases are another source of loss info and these should be public records. For a recent case see the Leslie Doucette case. She was sentenced last summer to 27 months in prison. She was running some kind of voice mail fraud scheme. Sorry I can't give a case number but it was heard in U.S. District Court in Chicago. I would expect the victims to be identified in court records.