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From: dattier@chinet.chi.il.us (David Tamkin)
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Subject: Re: MCI and Imaginary Calling Card Numbers
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Date: 23 Feb 90 20:51:48 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 126, Message 1 of 11


Nutsy Fagen wrote in TELECOM Digest, Volume 10, Issue 122:

| When the card came, sure enough, it was my home phone number with a
| PIN thrown on.  It also had my name spelled wrong :)

When I ordered a card from MCI, they miraculously got my name right
(the fruit list helps) but also based the card number on my home
number.  It was 1989, for Cthulhu's sake, and it hadn't occurred to me
that any carrier would still be doing such a stupid thing.  I phoned
back and ordered what U S Sprint had once called "a scrambled PIN."

| However, when my new
| cards came, one was based on the real number, and the other was
| completely new, based (I assume) on an imaginary 335-458-xxxx number.
| An interesting note is that my home phone number is 315-458-yyyy.

A *very* interesting note!  My home number is in area code 312, and
the scrambled number MCI sent me begins 332 plus my home prefix!


David Tamkin  PO Box 813  Rosemont IL 60018-0813  708-518-6769  312-693-0591
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