Monday, 4. November 2002

Suspects billed for having their phones tapped


A German intelligence-gathering operation went spectacularly wrong after bills for phone tapping services were sent to the people being bugged.

About 50 people received the demands in mobile phone invoices. Many of them established that their phones were being tapped because the bills listed calls made to a number which was a recording device used by the intelligence service to monitor conversations.

¬> The Age

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