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- From: UK84@DKAUNI2.BITNET (Juergen Ziegler)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: An Interesting Advertisment
- Message-ID: <telecom12.712.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 07:12:00 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 712, Message 9 of 14
-
- Hi TD readers,
-
- I read the following ad in the German {Forbes} 8/92 issue on page 117:
-
- Free Phone
- Weltweit kostenlos telefonieren = worldwide tollfree calling
- Mediumvalue Ltd.
- Mannheimerstr. 22
- 6836 Ottersheim
- 06202/51509
- ----------
-
- A lot of the older TD readers will probably remember the same type of
- advertisment same 20 years ago when "telephone consultants" sold their
- customers inexpensive telephone services.
-
- History seems to rerun again. Actually TELEKOM, the German telephone
- operator has tremendous problems with phreaking. Just recently there
- was a report on TV about this problem. TELEKOM estimates the the total
- damages (loss) is around 20 millions DM ($15 million) a week.
- Esspecially their toll-free customers are reluctant to offer toll-free
- numbers to their foreign offices, since such numbers could be used for
- fraudulent theft of service and I could easily happen that those
- companies would be liable for those calls, since TELEKOM has no
- reliable method of detecting phreaking.
-
- There is an intersiting article about "blue boxing" in the November
- 1990 issue if {IEEE Spectrum}. Very informative and very interesting
- to read. ("The great blue box phone frauds" by David Flory)
-
- Disclaimer: I have no intention to get big trouble for stupid phone
- calls I do not need. So this message does not encourage
- anybody to get the services of the mentioned company. I am
- not affiliated with that company either.
-
-
- Juergen
-