Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Seth Zirin Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: New Sleazy 900 Service Message-ID: <2782@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 10 Jan 90 14:26:24 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: szirin@cbnewsm.ATT.COM Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 32 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 20, message 5 of 9 In article <2755@accuvax.nwu.edu> Edward_Greenberg@cso.3mail.3com.com writes: >The announcer is a pretty lady with a soothing voice telling how >important the issue is, and how the supreme court has put it back in >the hands of the legislator and how disasterous it would be if your >voice wasn't heard. Unsaid, but implied is the threat that if the >other side calls in more times than your side does, legislators will >be influenced against your position. There are worse ads in the NY Metro area. 1) A "free" information kit for people with bad credit that desire a credit card. The call costs 6.95 and the warning is visual only and lasts 1 second. 2) Information on buying cars seized from drug dealers for $100. They show new Vettes, BMWs, etc and the call costs $59.00! Again, there is no audible warning. 3) WOR in NJ seems to bombard their evening viewers with ads for various date and love lines. They state that only women will be on the line. Since we never see ads geared towards women that claim only men will be on the line, we can only assume that the women are employees of the service provider and are not women calling in on some other number. Using 900 for these calls was a bad idea. Anyone dialing an off by one to a toll free 800 number can get zapped. Imagine trying to get credit for a $59 wrong number from one of the fly by night "telephone companies."