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From: ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel Allen)
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Subject: Re: AT&T Calling Card Discrimination
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Date: 25 Jul 90 02:45:24 GMT
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0003513813@mcimail.com (John C. Fowler) writes:

>An AT&T Calling Card application is rather long and
> asks for all sorts of personal information, so they should have no
> problems asking something that only the true cardholder
> would know off-hand.
 
If you want an AT&T calling card and do not already have an account
with AT&T, you have to fill out an application form, which asks many
of the questions a Visa or MasterCard application would.  (There is a
separate application form for university students, by the way.)  The
information collected on the form would allow AT&T to ask verification
questions, as John C. Fowler suggested.
 
However, I think that most AT&T calling cards are issued to people or
companies who have selected AT&T as their primary carrier, or at least
who can be billed on an existing LEC telephone account.  AT&T might
have extensive information about someone's calling patterns at its
fingertips, but it would not know personal information about the
cardholder, such as his or her mother's maiden name.