Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!lll-winken!telecom-request From: nstar!bluemoon!sbrack@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Steven S. Brack) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 50k Counts of Wire Fraud Message-ID: Date: 12 May 91 19:32:13 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[0][2][4]) Lines: 32 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 354, Message 2 of 7 holos0!wdh@gatech.edu (Weaver Hickerson) writes: >> I see no lies and no coercion. The people who were charged got what >> they paid for, a $55 audiotex message. Is there anybody in Manhattan >> who can afford a pager who doesn't know that 540 numbers are toll >> calls? If there are two thousand yuppie scum who are stupid enough to >> return a page to a toll number, and they do this for no reason other >> than that they were asked to, how can it possibly be illegal or even >> unethical? > Brad, this is the most ignorant thing I have ever seen. "Yuppie Scum" > as you call them, if having a pager is the data point, might be an ER > doctor or nurse, a plumber, a janitor, HONEST WORKING PEOPLE. Some > people have a pager so the wife can call them to order Haagen Daas on > the way home. Some pagers allow you to dial the last paged number by > pressing a button on the pager, without ever looking at the number. > The "entreprenuer", in my opinion, is the scum in this picture. And > you sir, are running close second. If, in this day and age, you are ignorant enough to dial any numbner that comes over your pager, without either recognizing the number, or getting rate information from the operator, then any charges you incur are solely your own fault. Ma Bell is not looking out for us anymore. Steven S. Brack | sbrack%bluemoon@nstar.rn.com | Jacob E. Taylor Honors Tower | sbrack@bluemoon.uucp | The Ohio State University | sbrack@nyx.cs.du.edu | 50 Curl Drive. | sbrack@isis.cs.du.edu | Columbus, Ohio 43210-1112 USA | brack@ewf.eng.ohio-state.edu | +1 (011) 614 293 7383 | Steven.S.Brack@osu.edu |