By KURT MOORE
MARION -- If you see a hundred dollar phone call to some far-off land, one you have to pull out an atlas to identify, chances are you’ve been scammed.
The Ohio Consumers’ Counsel is alerting consumers accessing the Internet through a dial-up connection that they may be susceptible to an Internet scam that could affect their wallets. Web users are falling victim to computer viruses that may force a computer to disconnect the telephone line from the local number and re-connect it to an expensive international number.
«We’re used to slamming and cramming,» said counsel spokesman Ryan Lippe. «This is like a high-tech hijacking of our phone service.»
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If all hell breaks loose in your home every time you open the phone bill, do not feel alone. Similar scenes of domestic drama are played out in homes all over the country on the day the phone bill is delivered. But before you take the drastic step of cutting your landline, first try cutting your bill.
Ask a couple of friends what they spend, on average, on their landline telephone every month, and you may be comforted to discover that you aren’t the only one shelling out several hundred rand every month … to talk. And you do not even have to be a chatterbox – or a teenager – to run up a hefty phone bill. It is quite easy, really. All it takes is blissful ignorance and a lack of discipline.
It’s generally accepted that, by international standards, South Africans pay a premium for landline local calls, although Telkom will tell you studies have shown that their tariffs «fall within the median of those charged by telecommunications companies in a mix of developed and developing countries». Be that as it may, as long as there is only one national phone operator, there’s only one thing a landline user can do to keep the phone bill down to a minimum: be informed about what you are being charged for and how you can save on those charges.
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DALLAS
V3-Global Inc. (PINK SHEETS:VGBL), a rapidly growing telephony company, is pleased to announce the following:
«We are excited to offer our company to the public as a new issue, we hope to be able to achieve the goal of becoming a dominant global player in the telecommunications market. We look forward to raising our first round of capital to expand our business and to grow our value. We are also developing an acquisition strategy, so we can grow vertically as well as horizontally. We know many companies would love to be a part of our company and plan to acquire several that we feel make sense, pending due diligence,» said Sameer Mohan, president and CEO of V3-Global.
Mohan added, «We grossed nearly $10 Million in 2003 and are on pace to increase that figure for 2004. As we utilize this opportunity to grow, via the public market, we should expect these numbers to continue to grow. The capital that is raised will also allow us realize greater future growth, as we have several new developments in the R&D phase that we feel will generate millions of dollars for the company upon successful completion and availability, we will speak more of this in later releases.»
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