Joined: Oct 10, 2006 Posts: 37 Location: Aurora, Il
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:44 am Post subject: Old Fashioned Phone scam
I had the strangest memory today.. The thing that made it click was two ohio girls posting a fake snow day message on their schools website. Its funny how things click again.. BUT (Sorry Maura.. and.. Sherri Seaman I think.. ) Before I really knew who Maura or Sherri were, they charged long distance phone calls to my home phone without asking, of course. My dad worked for the phone company so at the time he vouchered off all of the long distance, and looked carefully at all of the charges. Busted.. I think that was about 7th grade. Wow. Just think of the trouble we (well YOU!) would have gotten into NOW (I can't even imagine the trouble I would have gotten into personally).
Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject: Re: Old Fashioned Phone scam
[quote="Doug"]I had the strangest memory today.. The thing that made it click was two ohio girls posting a fake snow day message on their schools website. Its funny how things click again.. BUT (Sorry Maura.. and.. Sherri Seaman I think.. ) Before I really knew who Maura or Sherri were, they charged long distance phone calls to my home phone without asking, of course. My dad worked for the phone company so at the time he vouchered off all of the long distance, and looked carefully at all of the charges. Busted.. I think that was about 7th grade. Wow. Just think of the trouble we (well YOU!) would have gotten into NOW (I can't even imagine the trouble I would have gotten into personally). [/quote]
remember how easy it was to scam the old bell system?
not only the old "third party shuffle" but also the "pay phone fake out"
"operator i put my dime in but it never connected..." _________________ I'm PTBartman, and I aprove this message.
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I think that was about 7th grade. Wow. Just think of the trouble we (well YOU!) would have gotten into NOW (I can't even imagine the trouble I would have gotten into personally). 
