Taco Bell restaurant falls victim to phone scam

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Consumer Affairs - 4/21/2017 - Christopher Maynard - Employees were instructed to discreetly wire money by the chain's 'vice president'. Unfortunately, scam phone calls are still going strong in the U.S. A survey released earlier this year showed that 11% of the population lost money to a phone scam in 2016, totaling losses of $7.4 billion. But it isn’t just ordinary consumers who fall prey to these scams. Large companies and franchisees are often targeted as well, and the losses can sometimes be substantial. That’s something that employees of a Taco Bell in Benton, Arkansas won’t soon forget. Earlier this week, KARK-TV reported that a scammer called the restaurant and claimed to be Pamela Miller, vice president of Taco Bell. Read more @ https://www.consumeraffairs.com/news/ta ... 42117.html