Re: 1 new message in 1 topic - digest
Jena Gaines
Well, your fearless bus driver spent most of Tuesday on the phone with folks from both Force 3 (the company that originally reported this story) and AT&T (the long distance telephone company whose logo looks an awful lot like Darth Vader's Death Star). As shocking as this may sound, the "nine-zero-pound" story is true ... sort of.
What the warning letter floating around the Net doesn't say is that this scam only works on telephones where you have to dial 9 to get an outside line. Unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at home, this scam does not affect residential telephone users. Dialing "nine-zero-pound" on a residential phone will only give you a busy signal. That's it.
On some business phones, however, dialing "nine-zero-pound" may transfer a call to an outside operator and give the caller the opportunity to call anywhere in the world and charge it to your business' phone bill ... maybe. It all depends on how your business' telephone system is set up. If your company doesn't require you to dial 9 to get an outside line (for example, if you have a direct outside telephone line on your desk or if your company's phone system requires you to dial a number other than 9 to get an outside line) the "nine-zero-pound" scam does not affect you. Also, if your company's phone system is set up so that you cannot make a long distance call once you have accessed an outside line (a lot of companies now limit all outside lines to local calls only), the "nine-zero-pound" scam does not affect you either.
The "nine-zero-pound" story only affects those businesses that require you to dial 9 to get an outside line and then place no restrictions on who or where you can call once you get that outside line. And, just to be anal-retentive, let me say one more time that, unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at home, this scam does not affect residential telephone users. [It also probably doesn't affect non-US telephone users. This is especially true for British telephone users whose telephone system is so complex that NO ONE in the UK knows how to use BT's phones (although I am sure that BT users are currently dealing with some sort of "dial q-seven-pi-cromwell-eleventeen-tomato" scam)].
— Patrick Crispen
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TOPIC: Fw: : 90# on your phone]
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Date: Sun, May 27 2007 2:13 am
From: "Carla Turner"
From: _"Thad Turner" <thadd...@verizon.net>To: _"Teal Levalle" < teal...@hotmail.com>, "Starr" <sfu...@stlabre.org>,"Rita Cabrea" <greenbay.2@netzero. com>, "Kim Linner" < kiml...@aol.com>,"kenneth Hedditch" <nor...@bresnan.net>, "ken taylor" <kbta...@cablemt.net>,"Karen Hall" < mamah...@hotmail.com>, <green...@netzero.net>,"Gerry and Kathy Gill" < gkgi...@iglide.net>,"Gary Darlow" <gwi...@intrq.com>, "Dwayne Orr" <or...@juno.com>,< Ddoni...@aol.com>, "Danette Swanson" <dmswans...@yahoo.com>,"Dan Youso" <cj...@charter.net>, "clyde turner" < lind...@rangeweb.net>,"clyde s turner" <old...@juno.com>,"cindi swanson" < swanso...@yahoo.com>,"Carol Serquina" <peps...@yahoo.com>,"Carla Turner" <ferre...@hotmail.com >, "Carla Rubio"
<ocea...@mail.com>,"Bobi Florida" <bobif...@sbcglobal.net>,"Beth M" < bethsc...@hotmail.com>, "Barbie & Tom" <abkir...@cablemt.net>,"Arvin Post" < arvin...@yahoo.com>Subject: _Fw: : 90# on your phone]Date: _Fri, 11 May 2007 22:15:37 -0700
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*From: Colleen Hoppert
*To: Thad Turner ; Danna Stovner ; Liquidation Diversified Services ; JoAnn Franklin ; Nicky Hoppert ; Meidinger, Lashell R. ; jaisen...@hotmail.com ; Irene Zuelsdorph ; Rhea Morrison ; Jayson
Hoppert ; Ginger Hoppert ; Colleen ; danny.r...@exxonmobil.com ; Carla Gamble ; Carol Treib ; Harold Pender ; Rusty &Ruthie
*Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:52 PM
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*From: JASON HOPPERT
*To: dick276 ; J3ginger97 ; joe dirt ; married2ascot ; mom hoppert ; nicole ; valerie
*Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 5:03 PM
*Subject: Fw: : 90# on your phone]
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*From: danny.r...@exxonmobil.com
*To: clyde.j.baldwin@exxonmobilcom ; donald.r.belvin@exxonmobilcom ; cecl...@hotmail.com ; craig.e...@exxonmobil.com ; Djar...@aol.com ; Barb Hinnant ; Hoppert, Ginger L ; hoppc...@msn.com ; kenneth....@exxonmobil.com ; mike neil ; Lee, Robert Mr North Fort Mayor ; wayne.p.peltier@exxonmobilcom
*Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:02 AM
*Subject: Fw: : 90# on your phone]
>> 90# on your telephone>> I dialed '0' and asked the operator who confirmed that>>this was correct so please pass it on.>>>> PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW.>>>> I received a telephone call last evening from an>> individual identifying himself as an AT&T Service technician>>(could>>also be Tel) who was conducting a test on the telephone lines. He>>stated that to complete the test I should touch nine(9), zero(0),>>the>>pound sign (#), and then hang up.>>>> Luckily, I was suspicious and refused.>> Upon contacting the telephone company, I was informed>>that by pushing 90#, you give the requesting individual full>>access to>>your telephone line, which enables them to place long
distance>>calls>>billed to your home phone number.>>>> I was further informed that this scam has been>>originating from many local jails/prisons.>> DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE.>>>> The GTE Security Department requested that I share this>>information with EVERYONE I KNOW.>> After checking with Verizon they said it was true, so do>>not dial 90# for anyone !!!!!>> PLEASE HIT THAT FORWARD BUTTON AND PASS THIS ON TO>>EVERYONE YOU KNOW.
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