February 25, 2005

College Libraries Are New Targets of Telemarketing Scams

By SCOTT CARLSON

Rick Anderson, a librarian at the University of Nevada at Reno, says he was suspicious when he got a call demanding that the library pay for a business directory he had never heard of. The woman on the line demanded to speak to the university's lawyer. His suspicions deepened when the caller, who said she was from a company called Pentium Capital, would not give her full name, identifying herself only as "Ms. Larson."

He pressed her for more information, and he did get a phone number