Phone scam targeting parents costs mum $4500
Jan Lenton thought she was lending her son some much-needed emergency cash - but $4500 later she realised she'd been the victim of a cruel scam.
Middlesbrough is a large post-industrial town located on the south bank of the River Tees, England. The local area is a part of a number of larger areas, in order of size from smallest to largest: mainly the borough of Middlesbrough, partly in the Redcar and Cleveland borough, Teesside, Tees Valley, North Yorkshire and North East England. In 2019, the population of the town itself was estimated to be 177,354, the borough 140,980 whilst the larger... Show more urban area, known as Teesside had a population of 376,633.Historically, the south of the River Tees was wholly within the North Riding of Yorkshire. In 1889, Middlesbrough became a "county borough", with a rural district from 1894 to 1932, in the riding. In 1968, the town became part of the larger County Borough of Teesside. After the abolition of the County Borough in 1974, the Teesside area came under the County of Cleveland. Middlesbrough Council...
Jan Lenton thought she was lending her son some much-needed emergency cash - but $4500 later she realised she'd been the victim of a cruel scam.
Telstra's scam text filter has stopped a whopping 185 million scam texts from reaching its customers phones since it was launched in April.
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