So at work today I took a relay call. For those that don't know what a relay call is it is a call where someone who is deaf dials into a system that is text based and an operator then calls us and will relay what the customer types to us. This one really sucked. The person I could tell was fraud because the wanted to immediately buy 5 prepaid
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You have a twisty brain
One of the reasons I like you
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Please remember when doing a TTY call that it is easier to do short statements rather than long ones. You want to ask for clarification often. =) Also, remember that the operators are not always the best spellers or grammaticians. It is easy to have meaning misconstrued by that. (I remember trying to tell my Dad about my mom's death through a TTY operator. Not FUN!)
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And the answer is NO. Just say NO.
-DL-
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The other one I've heard about is that relay services (especially on the net but I imagine it applies over regular TTYs too) are a common channel for fraud, probably because you don't have to worry about sounding uncertain or nervous the way many people do when they're trying to pull something on you.
The sad thing is, I couldn't figure out at first why they'd be ordering prepaid phones in such an obvious fraud setup -- most cell phone fraud I see deals with reselling the phone, service and all; this one sounds more like the caller's just planning on unlocking the phones (yay GSM) and reselling those.
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