Thursday 27 November
2008, San José, Costa
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Criminals Tamper With Street Telephone
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Criminals Tamper With
Street Telephone Boxes
To Extract Financial
Information
Thieves are getting more
ingenuous every day and
where less expected,
criminals hands are at
work. This time a gang
made up of 9 individuals
were the focus of
attention of
investigators after
receiving a number of
complaints of fraud.
It appears that the gang
broke into the Instituto
Costarricense de
Electricidad (ICE)
telephone boxes located
on public streets,
tapping into
conversations of their
selected victims to
obtain detailed
financial information.
Using information
obtained by Datum and
other information
services that provide
names, telephone
numbers, property
ownership and other
financial information,
the gang chose their
victims.
ICE spokesperson Elberth
Durán explained that the
institution is making a
full check of all theri
telephone boxes, some
which have been found to
have been tampered with.
Durán emphasized that
the tampering are
isolated incidents,
however, there will be a
full internal
investigation and is
asking residents to
report to authorities
any suspicious behaviour
around the telephone
boxes.
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