Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 02:46:32 GMT From: "Henry E. Schaffer" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 50k Counts of Wire Fraud Reply-To: "Henry E. Schaffer" Message-ID: Organization: NCSU Computing Center 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 366, Message 1 of 11 Lines: 22 In article bluemoon!sbrack@cis. ohio-state.edu (Steven S. Brack) writes: > ... All you have to do is ask the phone company, and they'll tell > you in what manner the number is billed. > If your buddy the plumber doesn't understand such simple > concepts as dialing the operator for rate information on unrecognized > numbers, ... I've been getting kind of steamed at some of this discussion - (I think that this scam is wrong, even if technically it is legal) but I think that this poster has shown one type of solution. If *everyone* asks for rate information for *every* number they dial when they don't recognize the area-code/exchange, I bet it wouldn't take too long for the telcos to figure out some better method which doesn't take this much effort! henry schaffer n c state univ