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Cell Phone CEOs Marked For Phone Cloning
Saint Aardvark writes "When Sarah Drummond got back from Israel, she found a cell phone bill
for more
than $12,000. She contacted her
cell phone provider to let them know that someone had stolen her
phone, but they weren't interested in helping her and told her she'd
have to pay. In preparing for small claims court, she and her partner
found out that not only does her company have the ability to spot
unusual activity on a cell phone account, the company executives' own phones have
been targeted by a group linked to Hezbollah. From the article: 'They were
using actually a pretty brilliant psychology. Nobody wants to cut off
[CEO] Ted Rogers' phone or any people that are directly under Ted
Rogers, so they took their scanners to our building, like our north
building, where our senior top, top, top executives are. They took
their scanners there and also to Yorkville, where there are a lot of
high rollers and like it would be a major PR blunder to shoot first
and ask questions later. . . . Nobody wants to shut off Ted. Even if
he is calling Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Kuwait.'"
Could we use massive presidential phone bills as an excuse to fire Bush?
*attempts to book a tour to the white house while preconfiguring his mobile phone sniffer*
Ms. Drummond confirmed that the company had offered to write off the bill if she pays $2,000, but she has rejected the offer.
Oh well, when the lawsuit is finished, she has to pay the 14000$. If you goes on holiday, she should have turned of her cellphone. I would have paid 2000$ and evaded the legal time wasting process. She earns more than 100000$ a year, so she can afford it.
RTFA. Iran = arabs = terrorists.