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From: ropg@ooc.uva.nl (Rop Gonggrijp)
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Subject: Re: Strange International (???) Number
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Jack.Winslade@f666.n285.z1.fidonet.org (Jack Winslade) writes:

>While skimming through the back pages of this week's {Village Voice},
>you know, the pages with those quasi-slick ads for all of the talk
>lines, date lines and dial-a-slut lines, one number stuck out like a
>sore thumb.  It was: 011-559-2xxx

We discovered a number advertised in The Netherlands which was written
as 096 114 112. Note that 09 is our 011 equivalent. The scam here was
that the Australian Telecom (country code 61) kicked back part of the
profits for nonexistent area code 14 to the operators of the services
on this switch.  They only implemented this routing on the incoming
exchange, so that nobody from within Australia could call it.

All of this shows that The Phone Companies are into a worldwide plot
and that they make WAY TO MUCH money on international calls. How much
crazier can it get? I pay for call completion, not for sleezball-profits!

>Is this a real number in Brazil, or is this just some kind of
>numbering anomaly??  I haven't called it.  I'm not >THAT< curious.

Qui s'excuse, s'accuse....... 


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