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- Date: 8 Nov 92 21:21:00 GMT
- From: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Computer Dialed Calls
- Reply-To: ray.normandeau@factory.com (Ray Normandeau)
- Message-ID: <telecom12.829.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 829, Message 6 of 9
- Lines: 70
-
- This was really for a NYC BBS but others in other cities may like to
- see this. Updated November 4, 1992. They got me again this afternoon
- using the 540-4400 number.
-
-
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
- =====================
-
- Computer Dialers Got You By The Calls?
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- by Raymond B. Normandeau
-
- Normandeau Newswire - No matter where you are from the Nassau border
- to the Hudson River you may have gotten a computer dialed call telling
- you that you may be eligible for a fabulous prize.
-
- If you have not gotten such a call yet, cheer-up, you probably will.
-
- The recorded message is played to you extremely fast. You may have won
- a life-time supply of amphetatmines so that you too may start a
- similar business.
-
- Have you gotten computer dialed calls from "Hopping Harry". Maybe
- calls mentioning Reno Nevada? Have these calls told you to call a
- 540-???? number?
-
- Do you think that maybe the recorded messages failed to tell you the
- price of the call? Did the recording mention "Five-Four-Oh" several
- times? If the recording said "The call is billed at Five-Four-Oh" they
- meant that you are billed $5.40. You WERE paying attention weren't
- you? Those are the bargain calls, the sky is the limit.
-
- Was an address speed spoke so fast that "slow you" missed it?
-
- If you have multiple phone lines and have been lucky enough to be the
- recipient of multiple calls you may like to go pick up your multiple
- prizes in person.
-
- You may have been told to call 540-4400, 540-0100, 540-9900 or another
- 540-nnnn number.
-
- Now ... back to that address. Sneaky us, taped one of those calls and
- played back the address.
-
- Would you like to visit the office where the calls came from? Are you
- Hopping Mad?
-
- Here is the address:
-
- Eagleton Group Inc.
- 717 East Jericho Turnpike #213
- Huntington Station, NY 11746
-
- If the recording tells you that you must call within "n" minutes and
- you want to get more information by phone without paying a hefty fee
- for the call, then dial 718-830-8781 which is a Queens tie line to the
- Huntington Station address. You will only be charged for a regular
- local call.
-
- So now you have it. You can pay them a visit!
-
- You may have to speak to them real slowly like.
-
- They don't hear as fast as they talk.
-
- However, no matter how slowly you tell them that you want no more
- calls from them, they won't stop calling you - ever.
-
-