Dear oh dear – Cable & Wireless Plc’s Telecommunications of Jamaica Ltd is reeling from multi-million dollar fraud losses, Reuter reports from Kingston, and will soon disconnect a number of overseas phone services: it will no longer be possible to make overseas calls from payphones or for local phone service customers to accept overseas collect calls with effect from the end of August; losses on collect call alone totals $250,000 a month and local card-phones are often tampered with to make fraudulent overseas calls; several US cities last year barred all collect, credit card and pay phone calls to Jamaica because of fraud.
