Do not connect the assailant of "72 # Scam" at the prison camp - it may take time. Stress with $$

When a 15-year-old Whitney Lot agreed to transfer a stranger's phone on the phone she thought that she was "helping someone." A stranger, according to the CBS news report, proved to be a prisoner from Dallas County Prison. He told her that he mistakenly called her. Since I only called one, I asked if I could transfer my phone to my mother with the * 72 dial.

Innocent movements cost $ 160 to the lot's parents, but may still cost hundreds of dollars or even thousands of dollars.

When you press * 72 or 72 #, the call transfer function of the phone is enabled. All calls to subsequent numbers will be forwarded to public phones and other third parties. However, as the phone has been transferred from the number, the customer will be responsible for the charges incurred.

This fraud is occurring nationwide, not only inmates but also daily scammers are involved. In Florida, at least two prisoners are calling for more than 100 families to collect over $ 50,000, "CBS news reports said," The problem is rampant.

* 72 Scheme of fraud

As stated by AT & T, * 72 fraud works as follows.

Star-7-2 is a custom function of call forwarding. If the customer dials * 72 followed by the phone number, the call forwarding feature will be enabled and the incoming call will sound with a different number.

At the end of the other line, regardless of whether the phone has been transferred to a fixed phone, mobile phone, or public phone, the original caller's mate criminal accepts all collected calls and third party calls can do. My legitimate caller has a wrong number. Because my number is the transferred number, it will be charged for all calls. "

A fraudster will use the following scenarios most frequently when trying to challenge the victim's sympathy.

• The prisoner says he needs to call and tell his mother that they call you "by chance" and can not make another call).
• Inmates were arrested with a small amount of tickets and stated that they needed to call their relatives and have their children picked up from the police station (again, "accidentally").
• A person who calls a telephone company's technician who needs to check the problem with your telephone line and disguises it. In order to receive 'remote access', I ask the victim to enter * 72 or 72 # code.
• A person who calls a police officer and disguises it and tells the victim that a close friend was injured in a car accident. To find more information, the con artist says that the victim must press * 72 and press another telephone number to call another official.
• I answered that someone is making a call from a public phone and that there are no additional changes needed to make an emergency call and then ask them to transfer my phone.
• "Generally speaking, these fraudsters' artists are not targeting a specific person, they just want to find sympathetic ears," prosecutors in Arkansas State that issued a state consumer alert Mr. Mike · Bebe president, fraud.

However, if you can seduce you to transfer the phone to a different number, you can repeat the phone to call.

What to do if you think you have encountered a fraud

More than anything, if someone asks you to enter a strange code on the phone, just hang up. Please inform your children to do so.

For call transfer fraud, the code has the form:

• * 72
• 72 #
• 90 # (for some small and medium enterprise phone systems)

But beware of the code the stranger is asking you for input. One of the wise aspects of this fraud is that the victims do not know what it happened until it is too late and the fee is displayed on the phone bill.

If you think you became a victim of a call forwarding fraud, * 73 or 73 # (Depending on the service provider), the transfer forwarding function is turned off. You can also warn local law enforcement about fraud.

In addition, Beebe says, "If you pay attention to your phone fee and think you are not calling your account, please contact the telephone company."

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