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If the secret is in the sauce, fraud is not where it is believed ...

Technique is known. Several people said they got the call.

Let history:

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Hello gang!

The purpose of my message is to warn you is because morning (Monday, 7 January) I received a long distance call from number 802-681-4148 VERMONT (which was to mark on my display) I answered and the message was in English saying that I win and to accept the price I had to do 9.

I hang up immediately without the 9 because I had read the newspaper in Quebec that the fraud from the United States circulated in Quebec and saying the same information I had.

hang Immediately, I called Telus to tell them that I had just received this phone call and she told me I had done well to advise it and DO NOT do for you on 9 gives them the right to take your phone number to make long distance.

Telus can not do anything yet with number and it is also different phone numbers utilisent.Tout is that they know is that it comes from the United States.

So spread the word to your friends ..
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The technique is a combination between the Nigerian fraud and hoax 90 #, both documented here and in many other places.

First: Regarding the request to support 9, this technique will not cause you to lose the line as advertised. (Cf Breaker myths of 2006/06/25)
The reason is simpler than that: by pressing 9, your call is transferred to an agent (legitimate or not). This technique avoids the calls answered by an answering machine by "forcing" human interaction.
Now that the agent sell you socks hooks cloud or two handles of shovels not change history. ***
Press 9 (or any other number) does not transfer control of your line to your interlocutor.

Second: The price promised may or may not be a fraud. It may be a Nigerian fraud (see Breaker myths of 2006/03/31) or promotional activity but frustrating nonetheless perfectly legal.
For example, if I told you that you win a pair of socks completely free with the purchase of two other pairs , we know very well that the pair is not really free but whose cost is actually absorbed by the sale of other pairs. Technical common, frustrating, disgusting but legal nonetheless.

For more information on scams, visit the Canadian Phonebusters .