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PHONE FREEBIE SCAM CANNED - West Australian, Sunday 16th January 1994
TELECOM has adjusted the security of some of its public phones after
learning people were using phonecards to make free calls.
A Perth man who revealed details of the scam, thought to have cost Telecom
thousands of dollars, has been rewarded.
Mr Peter Lowndes, of East Perth, said youngsters showed him how to rack up
credits on public phones without having them deducted from a phonecard.
If the card was removed quickly, a credit still remained on the telephone
screen and calls could be made without any cost, Mr Lowndes said.
"I was in the GPO in Perth and there were a number of adults and uni
students explaining how to use the cards for free.
"Schoolkids all knew about it." he said.
"It would have cost Telecom a fortune. They can't put a figure on it, but
it must have gone on for a while."
"I was told by Telecom it had happened in South Australia as well."
Mr Lowndes received a mobile phone valued at $1200 for informing Telecom
of the scam.
Spokesman Ashley Zanotti said it was impossibe to say how much money had
been lost but it appeared to have only been a problem with public phones
in WA.