PhoneScams

It's your mother on the phone -- or so your caller I.D. says -- but that's not necessarily so. You may be amazed at how easily a caller can arrange to have virtually any number other than his own show up on your phone's caller I.D. A bill just passed in Washington establishes strong penalties for...

Another day, another scam.Given that this one has been attacking Bloomington, Indiana, the college town of my alma mater, Indiana University, and the surrounding towns, I felt compelled to mention this. After all, it could happen anywhere: Over the weekend, several dozen people began receiving...

An article in today's Columbus Dispatch showed that the *72 scam is alive and evolving, this time in the guise of a caller pretending to be a state highway patrol trooper. The way the scam typically works is something like this: I call you, and spin some tale such as, "Sorry about the wrong number,...