Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!bbn!mit-eddie!killer!vector!nobody From: john@zygot.UUCP (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Fraudulent use of 900 #'s Message-ID: Date: 23 Jan 89 01:40:47 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 29, message 5 In article <296@serene.UUCP>, rfarris@serene.UUCP (Rick Farris) writes: > In article <400@swbatl.UUCP> rebel@swbatl.UUCP (root@swbatl.swbt.com > 5-9080) writes: > : Now exactly who do you think ends up paying for telephone fraud???? > : The telephone company. When a teenager runs up $2,000 in 900# calls > : and the parents complain, the phone company ends up footing the bill, > You gotta be joking. Where do you think the phone company gets it's > money? The RATE PAYERS pay for fraudulent phone calls. Actually, it's the 900 or 976 service provider who takes it in the shorts. If the phone company can't collect from a customer for calls to an information service, do you think that they are going to remit to the provider anyway? Also, if they have already remitted to a service provider, and the bill eventually proves uncollectable, they *charge back* the service provider. -- John Higdon john@zygot ..sun!{apple|cohesive|pacbell}!zygot!john