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- │ The Phone Losers Of America Present │
- │ Information On A Few Phone-Type Offices │
- │ by RedBoxChiliPepper │
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- │ Written On March 18, 1995 Last Revision on March 20, 1994 │
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- │ For Informational Purposes Only. We're Not Responsible For Your Stupidity. │
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- Piling up in a few of my notebooks is information on various phone company and
- other offices around the U.S.A. that I've had reason to do research on in the
- past (Usually the reason was that I didn't have much anything better to do
- with my time.), so I'm going to type up the information I have and turn it
- into yet another PLA file that really has no use except to clutter up your
- hard drive just a little bit more.
- ______________________________________________________________________________
- Portland, Oregon Directory Asisstance
- 735 SW Stark, Room 912
- Portland, Oregon 972xx
- (503)-242-5575 Office
-
- This is one of the four offices that you reach when you dial 1-503-555-1212.
- The other three offices are Canton, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio and Salem, Oregon.
-
- Known Service Asisstants (Supervisors):
- Carol, Nancy, Charmaine, Barb Walker (manager), Kitty Lund,
- Diane Cordiar, Daffney Truats,
-
- Known Operators:
- Gail, Laura (Laurie) #2245, Lois #1061,
-
- Office uses General Datacomm terminals. Dedicated keys include Air, Auto,
- Bank, Hospital, Motel, Pac, School, COC (Chamber of Comerce?),
- ______________________________________________________________________________
- U.S. Sprint (LDUSA)
- 3rd & Johnson Commercial Court
- Wynonna, Minnesota 55987
- (507)-454-8386
-
- This is an interesting one that I ran across while compiling PLA023.TXT.
- Here's what happens when you dial 10252-0:
-
- 1. The operator that answers will only identify herself as a "special billing
- operator." I guess that makes her feel important. She'll be freaked out
- that you're calling her and she doesn't have your information on her
- screen. She won't tell you where she's calling from, but a few will hint
- that they're calling "from the mid-west." I finally got one of them to
- admit where they where calling from which is Wynonna, Minnesota by telling
- them that I was their supervisor in Chicago. Even if you ask, "Hi, have I
- reached the Wynonna, Minnesota office?" they usually won't tell you. One
- of them told me they were a "Hospitality Operator."
- 2. They WILL place a call for you collect, third party (with verification),
- or on a calling card. They won't dial direct (free) or with your red box.
- Usually, though, before they place the call they give you the third degree
- asking you questions like: "Who are you?", "Are you calling from a pay
- fone?", "What number did you dial to get me?", "What number are you calling
- from?" and a few other mundane questions. Whatever you do, don't tell her
- the access code you dialed to get her. This is interesting and we don't
- need them shutting it off.
- 3. She won't complete a toll-free (800) call for anyone but three times now,
- I've convinced her to anyways, saying that I was a GTE lineman. Each time
- I had her call a different ANI number and each one came up with a number
- in Los Angeles. One of them is 213-892-8743 which just rings and never
- answers. The other one is 213-624-9126 which says, "This number is
- disconnected..." And 213-892-8933. And 213-892-8996.
- 4. If you try to make a direct call (such as 10252-1-512-370-4680) you'll get
- a screwed up voice saying, "We're sorry, the number that you are calling
- from is not in service at this time. Call your carrier for asisstance..."
- 5. Most of the operators will claim that they have your number on their
- screen but they'll still ask you for your number and they won't tell you
- what your number is if you ask for it. Also, some operators admit that they
- can't see where you're calling from so this leads me to believe that none
- of them can. Except ONE operator so far knew which city and state I was
- calling from. Most of them can't even tell which state so I don't know. If
- they don't know where I am, how do they know how much to bill me for a
- long distance call? For all they know, I'm calling someone down the street.
-
- Here's a conversation I had with one of them today:
-
- ME:: Dialing 10252-0...<ring> <ring>
- HER: ...Uh...Sprint, may I help you?
- ME:: Hi, is this the Wynonna, Minnesota office?
- HER: I can't give you that information.
- ME:: Well, you're not in Los Angeles, are you?
- HER: (Pauses to think...) No.
- ME:: Well, I just wanted to ask you a question. How come when I have you dial
- the ANI number, it gives me a number in the 213 area code and not there
- in Minnesota?
- HER: Do you work for us?
- ME:: No, I work against you.
- HER: Hold on just a second...(Gets her supervisor)
- SUP: This is the supervisor, may I help you?
- ME:: Yeah, how come when I dial ANI through you I get Los Angeles?
- SUP: (Sounds pissed) Who are you??
- ME:: Alex.
- SUP: Well, who do you work for?
- ME:: McDonald's (No, I really don't work there...Give me a break.)
- SUP: McDonald who??
- ME:: McDonald's, the fast food joint, you know? Could you please tell me what
- number you show that I'm calling from? What's on your screen?
- SUP: I'm not at liberty to give out that information.
- ME:: Hmmmmm...Could you VERIFY the number?
- SUP: No, I can't do that either, I'm sorry. What number did you dial to reach
- this office?
- ME:: I'm sorry, I'm not at liberty to give out that information.
- SUP: Why not?
- ME:: Well, I'll make you a deal. You give me my phone number and I'll give you
- your phone number.
- SUP: No, I can't do that.
- ME:: Please? I'll box you a quarter...
- SUP: (Laughs) No, what number are you calling from?
- ME:: Well, we both obviously need information from each other so here's what
- we're going to do: I'll tell you my area code, YOU tell me my prefix,
- I'll tell you the first two numbers of my suffix and YOU tell me the
- last two numbers. That sounds like a reasonable trade.
-
- Well, that goes on and on. I spoke with this operator for 10-20 minutes and
- it just goes downhill from there. I've also called them from home and
- harrassed them to death. The address of the office is:
-
- Names of Supervisors:
- Dan, Glinda, Steve, Sue,
-
- Names of Operators:
- Jenell, Cindy, Renae, Sarah, Dave, Pam, Jackie, Tonya,
-
- "Is this a test call?"
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