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From: davidb@pacer.uucp (David Barts)
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Subject: SMDR's and Credit Card Calls
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klb@pegasus.att.com (Kevin L. Blatter) writes:

> I wrote call
> accounting systems which utilizes SMDR information for billing or
> whatever and our standard practice was if we saw a calling card number
> come through that we stripped the information out and classified the
> call as a 'charge call' which meant that we would not rate the call.
> However, we could have stored the information for who-knows-what
> purpose.

Of more concern to me is what happens to an SMDR printout AFTER the
hotel (or who/whatever) is no longer interested in it.  Is it treated
as the sensitive information it is (and shredded or incinerated), or
do they just toss it into the dumpster and leave it waiting for the
next pair of prying eyes to come along?  (I have this nasty feeling
that the latter is all-too-common.)

Before you ask ... YES, I *do* ask the sales clerk for my credit-card
carbons (or make sure she tears them up).


David Barts			Pacer Corporation, Bothell, WA
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