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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 10:07:11 CST
- From: mattair@sun44.synercom.hounix.org (Charles Mattair)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: University Telephone System (and Integretel in General)
- Message-ID: <telecom13.48.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Synercom Technology, Inc., Houston, TX
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- In article <telecom13.43.6@eecs.nwu.edu> udi@cs.washington.edu (Udi
- Manber) writes:
-
- > [PAT writes]:
-
- > [Moderator's Note: You say 'the main purpose of such schemes is to
- > defraud someone ...' Who, may I ask, is attempting to defraud whom?
- > 800 numbers being forwarded is one thing, but the willful acceptance
- > of a collect call when you were notified by the operator that so and
- > so was calling collect and the charge would be so much per minute is
- > quite another.
-
- Pat,
-
- Billing collect calls without authorization appears to be a fairly
- prevalent problem. My daughter had an ATT Call Me (sm) with the old
- style number (713 498 xxxx pppp). After getting tired of $2.50 (or
- more) local payphone calls, I changed the card to one with the new
- style number which AOSs cannot bill against (If I can't talk her into
- using a SWB phone, force her ;-) ).
-
- Hah ... some of the AOSs, not to be denied, just silently converted
- the call to collect. I didn't have collect/third party blocking at
- the time so I don't know if this would have affected the billing.
-
- I never succeeded in arguing the phone company out of any of the
- collect charges.
-
- PS: Once she got her own number and card and phone bill, she started
- paying attention when I grumbled about AOS ripoffs.
-
-
- Charles Mattair mattair@synercom.hounix.org
- Any opinions offered are my own and do not reflect those of my employer.
- Gates and Walton are the perfect reasons for a wealth tax.
-
-