Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 26 Jun 91 15:11:02 GMT From: Nick Sayer Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Way I Built and Operated an AOS Message-ID: Organization: The Duck Pond, Stockton, CA 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 497, Message 8 of 10 Lines: 16 marcus%cpva.span@sdsc.edu (Mark R. Jenkins 619-458-2794) writes: > After some pauses, I got an operator which I "assumed" was AT&T and > gave her my AT&T credit card number and completed the call. > However, I never received a bill from AT&T for that call. I wonder if a solution to the problem of fakers is to ask "Is this American Telegraph and Telephone?" If they answer 'yes' then either they are AT&T, or they're lying, n'est pa? Does this work? Nick Sayer mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us N6QQQ 209-952-5347 (Telebit)