TELEFELONY

n.

Telephone fraud, usually the result of a computer cracker breaking into a phone system and using it to make long distance calls.

"Such massive instances of [telephone] fraud are seldom publicized, usually out of the victims' concerns for their reputation or fears that it will encourage copycat crimes.

But to [Bruce] Jones, they are all grist for software that he is developing to combat what he calls 'telefelony."

— Mary Gooderham, "At war with 'telefelony"

cramming

frug

slamming

Telephones

Crime