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- From: rvirzi@gte.com (Robert Virzi at GTE Labs)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: So That's Why You Oppose Phreakers!
- Message-ID: <telecom13.46.5@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:45:19 GMT
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 46, Message 5 of 12
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- ... stuff about NETel overcharging deleted ...
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- > [Moderator's Note: I had a phone turned on about twenty years ago at a
- > place where I stayed occassionally and although the service got turned
- > on, the paperwork never made it to accounting for the purpose of
- > setting up a billing account. Since the line had unmeasured metro
- > service (a type of service we had back then) there were never any
- > extra units generated and no reason to ever issue a bill. It went on
- > like that for a year. I was careful to never make any long distance
- > calls from that line or do anything which would start paperwork going.
- > Then one day, some $$#% phreak billed a third number phraud call to
- > that line. From a telco unknown to me comes the billing tape; it hits
- > the accounting department and of course the charges promptly fall out
- > and go to suspense, there being 'no such number' to bill them to on
- > this end where Accounting was concerned. In the adjustments/suspense
- > investigative process, someone at telco actually dials my number and
- > discovers it turned on .... hmmm, they say, and they ask the CO to
- > send the paperwork all over again. The next billing cycle, I get a
- > bill for *12 months to date* of service, plus the installation charge
- > which never had been billed, plus next month's service in advance, and
- > of course, plus the (still unknown to telco) phraud LD charge. I got
- > the phraud charge removed, but was hardly in a position to argue with
- > them about the service I had been using for the past year. :( PAT]
-
- Interesting that one person's fraud can uncover another's, isn't it!
- I have to admit I read this with quite a bit of amusement given PAT's
- consistently hard line against phreakers/hackers/etc. I suppose in
- one's youth, one may have a different perspective, eh? Or perhaps
- this explains the position, a long held grudge. Many :-), for the
- humor impaired.
-
- What next, Higdon admitting to overcharging a telco in *his* youth?
-
- Again, many, many, :-). Thanks for the chuckle, Pat.
-
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- Bob Virzi rvirzi@gte.com +1(617)466-2881
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