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  2. Scam call centers in Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    One of Kyiv-based scam call centers. Scam call centers operate in Ukraine, [1] [2] including major cities such as Kyiv and Dnipro. Under Article 190 of The Criminal Code of Ukraine, the activities of these call centers are considered illegal. [3] According to Sberbank, the "capital" of phone fraud is Dnipro, [4] and up to 95% of calls to ...

  3. Area codes 703 and 571 - Wikipedia

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    The red-colored area is the northern region of the Commonwealth of Virginia served by area code 703 and its overlay code 571.. Area codes 703 and 571 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Northern Virginia, including the independent cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, Falls Church, Manassas, and Manassas Park, as well as all of Arlington and Fairfax counties and ...

  4. Area codes 506 and 428 - Wikipedia

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    Area codes 506 and 428 are the telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Area code 506 was created in 1955 in a split of numbering plan area (NPA) 902. Area code 428 was added to the same numbering plan area in 2023 to form an overlay plan of the area.

  5. IRS impersonation scam - Wikipedia

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    An IRS impersonation scam is a class of telecommunications fraud and scam which targets American taxpayers by masquerading as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collection officers. [1] The scammers operate by placing disturbing official-sounding calls to unsuspecting citizens, threatening them with arrest and frozen assets if thousands of dollars ...

  6. Area codes 902 and 782 - Wikipedia

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    Numbering plan area (NPA) 902 originally comprised the three Maritime provinces, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.. The incumbent local exchange carrier in the numbering plan area is Bell Aliant, which was produced from a merger that included Island Telecom Inc. (formerly Island Telephone, but both were informally shortened to Island Tel), Maritime Telephone and Telegraph ...

  7. Strip search phone call scam - Wikipedia

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    The strip search phone call scam was a series of incidents, mostly occurring in rural areas of the United States, that extended over a period of at least ten years, ...

  8. 2011 Canadian federal election voter suppression scandal

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    A voice broadcasting expert contracted by Al Mathews of Elections Canada, estimated that at a typical one-percent call-back rate, the 281 call-backs indicated that many thousands of electors were affected, even considering that the nature of these calls would probably have resulted in a higher callback rate. [21]

  9. Pyramid scheme - Wikipedia

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    The unsustainable exponential progression of a classic pyramid scheme in which every member is required to recruit six new people. To sustain the scheme, the 2.2 billion people in the 12th layer would be required to recruit 13.1 billion more people for the 13th layer, even though there are not nearly enough people in the world to achieve that.