A recent email bulletin from Sophos Security brings this word:
... scammers are posing as debt collectors seeking repayment on loans
> purportedly taken out by individuals or employees at places such as hospitals. >
> When they meet resistance, the scammers are again threatening to bring down
> phone lines, and then they flood the lines with repeated calls sent automatically
> over the internet, knocking ... agencies' phones offline for legitimate callers.
More (pardon the long URLs, but I disapprove of bit.ly-ization) at:
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Cheers, -- tlvp