We have smaller leaks all the time, you know, a fax number is wrong by a digit, and the number that is loaded into the system is not the pharmacy down the street, but some law firm.

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The evidently fake statements, which bear the number of a PaineWebber fax machine in the firm's San Francisco office, listed some of the gold stocks Lerma owned, but with false share prices.

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"There have been instances where people have been asked to fax back spurious lengthy surveys to a personal number at rates of up to 37.5p per minute, " said Oftel in a statement.

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