Billing scam suspected over surge in dubious int'l calls

Mobile phone calls received in Japan from nonexistent international phone numbers surged in September in a suspected billing fraud that takes aim at Chinese and victimized at least one woman, experts warned Tuesday.The indiscriminate calls appear to be made by a bot program targeting Chinese residents in Japan, but many Japanese received them, the experts at security technology firm Tobila Systems said, urging people not to take calls from or call back dubious numbers.Calls from numbers that start with non-existent country codes such as "+83" and "+422" were first identified around August a…READ FULL ARTICLE