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TOLL FRAUD

Specialty Definition: TOLL FRAUD

DomainDefinition

Post & Telecom

A crime in which a hacker obtains telecommunication services by:breaching computer security, using or selling stolen long-distance credit-card codes, or, accessing a private branch exchange and using its communication facilities illegally. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: TOLL FRAUD

DomainTitle

Books

  • Phone Book : The Latest High-Tech Techniques And Equipment For Preventing Electronic Eavesdropping, Recording Phone Calls, Ending Harassing Calls, And Stopping Toll Fraud (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: TOLL FRAUD

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

toll fraud

8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TOLL FRAUD

Language Translations for "TOLL FRAUD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

telebedrageri (fraud), bedrageri (swindle). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

fraude met telefoonkosten (fraud). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

petos (betrayal, deceit, deception, fraud, treachery), maksupetos (fraud). (various references)

   

French

  

fraude. (various references)

   

German

  

Gebührenbetrug (fraud), Betrug (amounted, amounted to, bamboozlement, cheating, confidence trick, deceit, deception, delusiveness, fiddle, fooling, fraud, imposture, scam, swindle). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απάτη (beguilement, bilk, cheat, circumvention, con, deceit, deception, delusion, fake, fallacy, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, hoax, humbug, humbuggery, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, scam, sham, spoof, swindle, swindling, trick, trickery). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

olltay audfray

   

Portuguese

  

fraude em serviços de telecomunicações (fraud), fraude (bilk, brogue, cheat, cross, deceit, deception, graft, guile, humbug, inveracity, ruse, sham, skulduggery, spoof, trickery, wile). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fraude (cheat, deceit, deception, dishonesty, embezzlement, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, imposture, jugglery, trickery). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TOLL FRAUD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-f-l-l-o-r-t-u"

-2 letters: fallout, foulard, outfall.

-3 letters: artful, dollar, floral, torula.

-4 letters: adult, afoul, aldol, allod, allot, aloft, aloud, atoll, dotal, doura, draft, droll, dural, fauld, fault, float, flora, flota, flour, flout, fluor, fraud, loral, tardo, tolar, troll, trull, ultra.

-5 letters: alto, auld, auto, daft, dart, dato, daut, doat, doll, dolt, dour, drat, dual, dull, dura, duro.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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