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Charleston, SC ??” sum of two units businesses have notified the FBI about unauthorized calls placed to the Middle East from one side their switchboards. In one case, a man posing as a telephone technician dup an operator at WCSC-TV into giving him access to outside phone lines, said Mary Rigby, Channel 5's assistant stranges director. Two calls were placed to Yemen and Egypt before the station's lengthy distance carrier spotted a question and shut down the lines, she said. Thieves used the same strategy to make fraudulent calls upon Piggly Wiggly Corp.'s phone lines. Six calls worth $380 were placed to Yemen and other Middle Eastern countries in united day before the ruse was ascertained said Christy Flowers, telecom manager for the supermarket chain. Jill Sparks, who works in Sprint's corporate security department, said countries of the like kind as Yemen and Myanmar are ???hot spots??? for phone fraud.

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