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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:25:57 PDT
- From: PGloger.es_xfc@xerox.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Clever Phone Fraud by 900 Line
- Message-ID: <telecom12.679.11@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 679, Message 11 of 15
- Lines: 30
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- The {Wall Street Journal} on Friday, August 28 (or maybe Thursday the
- 27th) carried an article primarily about computer fraud, which
- included one interesting tale of a computer/phone fraud. I'm
- reporting from memory here since I have been surprised to see no
- mention of this story yet here in Telecom.
-
- The gist of the story was that several employees of a large company
- set up a 900 phone line outside of work, then went back to work and
- programmed a company computer to repeatedly phone their 900 line,
- quickly racking up huge 900-line charges. The company evidently paid
- the 900 charges only for a while at most, since the story became
- sufficiently known to be written up in the WSJ.
-
- An ironic added touch is that the large company in question was AT&T.
-
- Definitely an imaginative way to rip off one's employer.
-
- (No, none of us think rip-offs are good. Yes, all of us expect 'most
- large company phones to be blocked against outgoing 900 calls.)
-
-
- Paul Gloger <PGloger.esxfc@Xerox.com>
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: I certainly hope the employees in question were
- fired immediatly when their fraud became known; and I hope that once
- they had been discharged AT&T then referred their names to the U.S.
- Attorney for criminal prosecution. Did the article discuss this? PAT]
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