Phone fraud, or more broadly communications fraud, is the use of telecommunications products or services with the intent to illegally acquire money from, or avoid paying, a telecommunications company or its customers. Operators have increasingly invested in measures meant to minimize this fraud and reduce the resulting losses. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Offense GradeSerious or Indictable Offense 1 Connections
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1. Phone fraud (Wikipedia)
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Phone fraud, or more generally communications fraud, is the use of telecommunications products or services with the intention of illegally acquiring money from, or failing to pay, a telecommunication company or its customers.
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with the intention of illegally acquiring money from, or failing to pay, a telecommunication company
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