Number Nabbers Gab on Man’s Tab
(fictional/assignment)
By Trevor Normile
Credit thieves are getting creative. In 2003, a Toto, Kansas resident found himself buried under debt when his April telephone bill included a fee of more than $110,000.
According to the Southwestern Bell Telephone, Jim Tyler, 42, made 3,261 calls that month. Among the charges were 900 calls from Boston, all of them to China. A single seven-hour phone call cost Tyler $690.
Tyler claims he only made five long-distance calls that month.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation claims that an international network of telephone credit card scammers are operating out of Honolulu, Hawaii. Thieves will copy the numbers from the cards of those making calls and sell them- on the card holder’s tab.
(fictional/assignment)
