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From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook)
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Subject: Re: Persistent Wrong Number Bozos
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Date: 15 Mar 90 07:41:43 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 177, Message 10 of 10


Stan Krieger asked about why someone would lie to him when he has
dialed a wrong number (but not misdialed) and wants to verify the
number with them by asking "have I reached (x-number)?"...then they
say "no", and he calls back and gets them again.

I have had this happen, and here is what is really going on.  You have
accurately dialed what was originally a wrong number, but it comes on
as part of a group of lines into a business.  Like where I work, our
main number is 881-7000.  If that line is busy, it rotates to the next
line, and the next line, etc.  Each line has its own number, and it is
not consecutive, like 881-7001, etc.  So the receptionist or whoever
answers our phone at work, says, "no, you haven't reached 881-7459,
this is 881-7000."  She is not lying, she just doesn't know what the
number is for the third line in the trunk group, or whatever you have
come in on.


Tad Cook
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