Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!telecom-request From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 800 Scrambled ANI Message-ID: <74381@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 10 Feb 91 04:10:00 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 27 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 106, Message 6 of 11 Mark Steiger writes: > He said, you dial the number, wait a second, then dial this number. > Your phone number won't show up on their bill (if they have that > service). You are being put on, big time. When you dial any number, the switch you are dialing into is programed to "pre-translate" or expect a certain number of digits based on the first digits you dial. If you dial "1-800" the switch will expect seven more digits and then becomes deaf to any more. There are no secret back doors here. This reminds me of when I was a kid and had other kids in school claim to have "secret numbers" that would do strange and wonderful things. Now, as then, what you describe is a fantasy. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o ! [Moderator's Note: Do you think he might have been referring to one of those schemes where you call an 800 number; give the switch some 2600 tone -- ergo it more or less forgets about you; then you are left out there free to call where you want? I am being purposefully vague, but you know the idea. PAT]