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ReversePhoneDirectory.com Protects and offers advice for Seniors in the Latest Phone Scam Targeting Grandparents Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) March 12, 2011 With a rise in money-order scams involving the phone and online correspondence, ReversePhoneDirectory.com spotlights a recent scheme where two more seniors have fallen victim to a phone scam targeting grandparents. According to a report by Corpus Christie News station KRIS TV 6, police were notified when an elderly woman came into a Texas...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Feb. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pervasip Corp. (OTC Bulletin Board: PVSP) announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, VoX Communications Corp., a leading provider of wholesale Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone services and smartphone applications, has entered into an agreement with a person-to-person marketing firm to sell the Ojo Vision Digital Video Phone and service as one of its product offerings. This unique voice and video telephone service to consumers...
CONWAY, Ark., Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- First Orion, makers of the popular PrivacyStar application for Android and BlackBerry smartphones, today announced that PrivacyStar subscribers have filed over 100,000 complaints with the Federal Trade Commission. PrivacyStar includes many productivity tools, including allowing individuals to block all unwanted callers and also report potential Do Not Call Registry and Fair Debt Collection Practices Act violations direct from their smartphone,...
CHICAGO, Jan. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Home phone service just got a lot more expensive in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs after AT&T increased its line charges by up to 63 percent, but consumers can avoid those rate hikes with three low-cost, often overlooked calling plans that are the best deal for most Illinois callers, the Citizens Utility Board (CUB) said in a consumer advisory issued Monday. A CUB analysis shows that the prices of the Consumer's Choice plans, now under a...
Optimum Voice Customers Have Access to 18 Advanced Calling Features Including Free 411 and the Innovative Optimum Voice Homepage, All for One Low Monthly Rate Bethpage, NY (Vocus/PRWEB) January 13, 2011 Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC) is celebrating day seven of its "11 Days of Optimum Value to Kick Off 2011," promotion by reminding its 2.1 million Optimum Voice customers to take advantage of 18 advanced calling features and other unique benefits such as the Optimum Voice...
NumberInvestigator.com Works to Protect Consumers from Scam Artists that are Particularly Prevalent Around the Holiday Season. Bellevue, WA (PRWEB) December 22, 2010 With the rise of mobile technology and the declining use of landlines and associated caller ID systems, Number Investigator helps consumers find and share information about the calls they receive. Telemarketers aren't the only annoying callers plugging lines around the holidays in an attempt to separate people from their...
CONWAY, Ark., Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- First Orion, makers of PrivacyStar, the popular privacy app for BlackBerry and Android smartphones, announces a new text blocking capability for Android users. PrivacyStar already provides comprehensive and unlimited call blocking. Subscribers can block individual numbers, entire area codes or enter a series of wildcard characters for a truly personalized service. Now subscribers can block unwanted text messages, including spam from telemarketers who...
Phishing scams are making the leap from email to the world's voice systems, and a team of researchers in the Georgia Tech College of Computing has found a way to tag fraudulent calls with a digital "fingerprint" that will help separate legitimate calls from phone scams.Voice phishing (or "vishing") has become much more prevalent with the advent of cellular and voice IP (VoIP) networks, which enable criminals both to route calls through multiple networks to avoid detection and to fake caller...
CONWAY, Ark., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- First Orion today announced that PrivacyStar, a feature-rich call-blocking and caller ID mobile application, is a Regional Selection Finalist of the BlackBerry® Super Apps Developer Challenge. "We are excited to be here at DevCon for the announcement that PrivacyStar has been selected as a Regional Finalist in the BlackBerry Developer Challenge," said Jeff Stalnaker, CEO of First Orion. "We look forward to continuing our work in providing the...
CONWAY, Ark., Sept. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- First Orion, a corporation with a significant intellectual property portfolio dedicated to privacy, protection and preference, today announced that PrivacyStar, the feature-rich call-blocking and caller ID application, has entered into the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. The third annual BlackBerry Developer Challenge highlights the BlackBerry applications that are at the top of its class, the "Super Apps" that are remarkable for their utilization of...
