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From: dbw@crash.cts.com (David B. Whiteman)
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Subject: A New Type of 976 Fraud
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Date: 7 Nov 90 08:18:10 GMT
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Well the 976 people discovered a new way of fraud today: The hospital
I work at leases a block of digital pagers from a local paging
company.  Each of these pagers has its own seven digit normal phone
number -- when you dial the pager phone number you are suppose to
enter the phone number you want the person to call back to, or in our
hospital's case extension.  This number then appears on the display on
the pager.
 
Well today a group of pagers, all of them with phone numbers in
sequential order were each beeped with the message to call a 976
number.  Obviously, a 976 company just autodialled the pager exchange.