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From: motcid!king@uunet.uu.net (Steven King)
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Subject: Re: A New Type of 976 Fraud
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In article <14494@accuvax.nwu.edu> dbw@crash.cts.com (David B.
Whiteman) writes:

>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.

So, did anyone call the 976 number to find out who the slimy little
reptilian company was?  Might have been interesting.


Steven King, Motorola Cellular  (...uunet!motcid!king)