BIBLIOTHEKE

Apparently we got one of these phone calls yesterday.

Bogus publishing companies and bill-collecting operations have college librarians across the country reading up on a new subject: financial scams.

Last July, the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Pinacle Publishing and MDSC Publishing—two lucrative scamming operations—for using illegal telemarketing maneuvers against a number of institutions, including several college libraries.

The FTC asserted that the companies pretended to have preexisting business relationships with librarians, referred to nonexistent purchase directories and pretended to have lawyers that would collect on fake accounts if the libraries refused to pay them.

From Some college libraries fall prey to scammers by Jasten McGowan
Duke’s Chronicle Online 3.10.5

Also: College Libraries Are New Targets of Telemarketing Scams (sub required or internet post) By Scott Carlson
Chronicle of Hgher Ed 2.25.5

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