Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: Ed_Greenberg@3mail.3com.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: re: 50K Counts of Wire Fraud Message-ID: Date: 9 May 91 13:54:00 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 30 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 350, Message 2 of 10 > 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. I work in a group of 40 pager equipped folks. We range from telecom literate folks who maintain the Wide Area Dialup and PBX, to temps who move machines and plug in cables. We have people who don't understand AOS's, people who don't understand long distance carriers, even people who use (gasp) COCOT's! We work in Santa Clara, in the 408 area (please make a note of it.) One thing we all DO know, is that up about half way through Sunnyvale is an imaginary line separating 408 from 415. If we get a page that says 764- 5003, chances are we'd realize that it's in 408. After all, we work there. We recognize we're being paged from work. I'd imagine it's easier than that when there's a river -- an actual body of water -- that you have to pay a buck or two to get over (or under, for that matter) -- in the way. If I were in NYC, and were paged to my employer, the hospital in New Jersey, my first reaction would be "Oh damn, I have to make a long distance call to find out what they want now." Nonetheless, I want to disagree with the poster who said that the callers who answered their pagers got what they deserve. They _are_ innocent victims by definition, since they didn't know that the call was going to be expensive. I hope they make an example of the perp. It was de---thhhh---picable.