Word: fraud
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Just one day after the Undergraduate Council voted not to impeach its vice chair on charges of election fraud, two students have put forward a new theory that suggests three possible suspects...
Kinchla said that the fraud has hit the University the hardest in the last six months to a year...
Since students cannot transfer phone calls using student telephone lines, the fraud seems to be limited to administrative offices. The total cost to the University "in not huge, but it can be large to the poor department on the bill," said Kinchla...
...England Telephone has refunded all the money lost to the University, and is attempting to solve the problem, Kinchla said. The only way to stop fraud completely would be to block all collect calls, she said, but legitimate collect callers would be cut off as well. Currently, the company is working on blocking specific institutional numbers from the University phone lines...
Kinchla added that she has been hearing reports of such fraud all over the country for the past few years...