Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 17 May 91 11:19:32 EST From: Doctor Math Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 900 Number Fraud on My Line Message-ID: Organization: High Magick Order 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 371, Message 5 of 8 Lines: 21 hcliff@wybbs.mi.org (Cliff Helsel) writes: > This may be of interest to persons living in an apartment complex. > Last month I opened my phone bill and found a new amount due of over > 300 dollars. The calls that contributed to this large amount were > mainly calls to 900 numbers. I believe there were eight or so calls > at 35 dollars a crack. > I guess what happened was that a person was going around to the back > of the apartment buildings and tapping into the "boxes" that had all > the wiring for the apartment phones and placing calls to 900 numbers. > I can just picture some guy in a trench coat holding a telephone with > alligator clips :-) anyway, I just thought it was interesting. Depending on the wiring in your building (I've seen a few), it's also possible that your pair is accessible from the apartment next door, as well as from the apartments above/below yours and your neighbor's. In this case, no trench coat is needed. :)