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Cell Phone Crooks

NPR's Melissa Block reports that the announcement last week of three arrests in New York in an alleged cellular phone fraud ring is the latest chapter in an ongoing story. Estimates are that fraud will cost the cellular industry nearly a billion dollars this year. And even as the cellular companies come up with technologies to make cellular phones more secure, crooks manage to outsmart them every step of the way.

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