'Hi Mum' phone scam costs parents $2 million
Police cybercrime experts are warning Australians to be extra vigilant after more than $2 million was stolen under the 'Hi Mum" mobile phone scam over past months.
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| Hook is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-east of Goole town centre and lies on the west bank of the River Ouse. According to the 2011 UK census, Hook parish had a population of 1,292, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,141. The parish was part of the Goole Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974, then in Boothferry district of Humberside until 1996. The church dedicated to St Mary the Virgin was designated in 1967 by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed… Wikipedia » | |
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Police cybercrime experts are warning Australians to be extra vigilant after more than $2 million was stolen under the 'Hi Mum" mobile phone scam over past months.
Jean, a 73-year-old grandmother, was at her Long Island home Thursday morning when she received a phone call from a man claiming to be her grandson. He was in jail for drunken driving, he said. He needed her help posting an $8,000 bail.
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Could you please tell them to stop calling me.
I never bought a car from them.
I have asked for them to stop calling me more than once.
i have had enought of them
Unsafe Aug 28, 2013 00
Been hasleling me for more than a year,
somehow someone bought a car and they got my number by mistake, they just dont stop calling every month 2-3 times
I have requested tens of times to stop calling me and they dont stop.
Unsafe Aug 28, 2013 00