Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request Date: Wed, 8 May 91 12:11:12 -0400 From: "Michael B. Scher" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 50k Counts of Wire Fraud Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 344, Message 10 of 10 Lines: 17 cmoore@brl.mil writes: > 540 (the one in NYC and NY suburbs, that is) is apparently not as well > known as 976 prefix and 900 "area code". Besides, 201-540 is a > "regular" prefix in Morristown, NJ, and it's necessary for the ads for > New York 540 to state that such programs are not available in NJ. > So it would be relatively easy to pull a "fast one" telling > people in NY to call a 540 number, right? Quite correct. Actually most of the Morristown, NJ 540 numbers belong to MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, so the scam with beepers was even more pointed. Many of the beeper-holding people could well have been MD's "tricked" into calling in for an emergency. The joke's really a lulu if you begin to think of it like that.