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Fax Fraud - Consumer Fraud
Please use the following to protect you and/or your business from fax fraud:-Beware of faxes, e-mails, or letters asking you for detailed information about your products or services and providing only a fax number for you to respond to. No matter what explanation is given, these people are not really interested in buying anything from your business. The real motivation is to get you to send a lengthy fax to a foreign phone number, resulting in high charges on your phone bill.
-Educate everyone in your company about fax fraud and other phone scams.
-If you are not sure where a long-distance phone or fax number is, call 00 and ask the operator.
-When you dial a foreign phone number, your local phone company connects you to your long-distance company, which connects you to the phone company in the country you are calling. That company connects you to the number you dialed. Part of what you pay for the call or fax goes to the foreign phone company - and the scammer profits by arranging to share the revenue with the company.
-The person responsible for paying your phone bills should review them carefully. If you have been duped into calling or faxing to a foreign phone number without realizing it, notify your long-distance company immediately. While you are generally liable for long-distance charges, your long-distance company may agree to make an adjustment, at least on a one-time basis.
Immediately report fax fraud to law enforcement agencies.