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From: barefoot@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Heath Roberts)
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Subject: Re: AT&T Blocking International Calls, Again
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Date: 23 Jan 91 18:25:35 GMT
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Pat writes:

>The only thing is he forgot to pay the bill. He skipped out of one
>apartment owing AT&T some $50,000 in *one month* and got a new
>apartment elsewhere where he did the same scam a second month to the
>tune of $45,000.  PAT

I have a hard time believing this: a year or so ago, Southern Bell
sent me a notice saying that I was over my $250 long distance credit
limit about halfway through the billing month. Once I called the
business office to check on the situation, they said it wasn't a
problem to increase the limit, but that all accounts have some limit
to prevent large losses due to fraud. My carrier was also AT&T. It
seems that someone would question a phone bill to an _apartment_ of
more than a few thousand dollars. Did the {Tribune} cite a source for
these figures?


Heath Roberts
NCSU Computer and Technologies Theme Program
barefoot@catt.ncsu.edu


[Moderator's Note: I suspect the {Tribune} just worked from the same
AT&T press release as everyone else who received it including me.  PAT]