Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: Miguel_Cruz@ub.cc.umich.edu Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Fraud Message-ID: Date: 7 Mar 89 09:55:34 GMT Sender: news@vector.UUCP Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 83, message 5 of 5 response to Douglas Humphrey's antisocial :) "bridging onto someone else's line": If you were connected to someone else's line, for the benefit of free calls, you could probably afford the hassle/annoyance of connecting a device that would automatically disconnect you from the line as soon as someone else picked it up. Hopefully whoever you were talking to would catch on and hang up. That way they would never hear your voice and recognize you ('they' being the lawful user of the line). Also, if you made long distance calls, when your victim got their bill it would be a small matter for him/her to call the numbers you called and ask them who you talked to... or they could just have the phone company compare the numbers you called on their line, to long distance calls you regularly place on your own line. or they could ask the phone company to reverse-directory the numbers and compare last names. Bridging and making a bunch of long-distance calls doesn't seem all that clever to me. Too many ways for the perpetrator to get caught, and pretty darn mean.