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Relay Abuse Continues YES, still going on. There are also some results at busting some of these criminals in Africa... "...Working with a team of Nigerian national law-enforcement agents he trained last September, an FBI agent recently arrested 16 people on fraud and theft charges in...

It's about time ! MCI at www.ip-relay.com has blocked all calls from Africa, which has drastically reduced the scam calls coming in to just a few a day for each operator. This also means there is no longer a queue for you to make a call. I hope Sprint and AT&T follows suit and blocks them. This...

Yes, this is a valid service and for those of us who only take calls from your TTY we do not have to put up with this as no scams or prank calls come through this way. It only goes to show how respectful the deaf community is and the fact that they don't abuse the service that is provided to...

Very serious Yes, it's serious because it's ruining a service intended for you !

Operator's message board We really would like input from anyone and everyone in the deaf community on our board. It would show the other operators and the victims how you feel about this. Your empathy would be appreciated. Thanks http://ip_relay_scams.aimoo.com

I don't think you'd be able to talk any of the companies into doing something like that. And I know 100 people in my city who would be layed off if they did that, but of course if they ever actually do stop the scam calls a lot of us would be out of a job anyway since scams and pranks are about...

To you and me it's obvious, but to a person who has never received an Relay call it isn't and when his/her first one is for an order totally thousands of dollars of products their judgment tends to get clouded.

The scams are not aimed at you Cheri. Don't worry, operators would never break the confidentiality of a deaf caller.

We can not say anything to the person at the terminating number. Even if our Orig has made 10 phone calls, using 10 different credit cards, phone numbers, names and addresses, we can not alert anyone. We must remain completely detached from the call. Violating this would surely mean an escort...

No voice user or text is recorded or saved, ever!. Once you disconnect from Relay - State or IP, all information is gone forever! That's what makes it so confidential and why the scammers are using it.

Because the general public isn't aware of this they have nothing to fear yet, so long as the rake in the millions of dollars for this service. And yes, it is tarnishing their name, so it makes no sense to me. But I've spoke to upper management; they are not and don't intend to do anything...

As a Relay Operator I feel obligated to advise everyone in the Deaf Community what is happening in our Relay Centers that you may not be aware of. Have you ever called a business using Relay and been hung up on? Well let me explain part of the reason. All IP RELAY Centers (MCI, AT&T, SPRINT) are...