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Jena Gaines  
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  More options Jun 7 2007, 2:43 pm
From: "Jena Gaines" <jena.gai...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:43:22 -0400
Local: Thurs, Jun 7 2007 2:43 pm
Subject: Re: 1 new message in 1 topic - digest
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Well, your fearless bus driver spent most of Tuesday on the phone with folks
from both Force 3 (the company that originally reported this story) and AT&T
(the long distance telephone company whose logo looks an awful lot like
Darth Vader's Death Star). As shocking as this may sound, the
"nine-zero-pound" story is true ... sort of.

What the warning letter floating around the Net doesn't say is that this
scam only works on telephones where you have to dial 9 to get an outside
line. Unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at home, this scam
does not affect residential telephone users. Dialing "nine-zero-pound" on a
residential phone will only give you a busy signal. That's it.

On some business phones, however, dialing "nine-zero-pound" may transfer a
call to an outside operator and give the caller the opportunity to call
anywhere in the world and charge it to your business' phone bill ... maybe.
It all depends on how your business' telephone system is set up. If your
company doesn't require you to dial 9 to get an outside line (for example,
if you have a direct outside telephone line on your desk or if your
company's phone system requires you to dial a number other than 9 to get an
outside line) the "nine-zero-pound" scam does not affect you. Also, if your
company's phone system is set up so that you cannot make a long distance
call once you have accessed an outside line (a lot of companies now limit
all outside lines to local calls only), the "nine-zero-pound" scam does not
affect you either.

The "nine-zero-pound" story only affects those businesses that require you
to dial 9 to get an outside line and then place no restrictions on who or
where you can call once you get that outside line. And, just to be
anal-retentive, let me say one more time that, unless you have to dial 9 to
get an outside line at home, this scam does *not* affect residential
telephone users. [It also probably doesn't affect non-US telephone users.
This is especially true for British telephone users whose telephone system
is so complex that NO ONE in the UK knows how to use BT's phones (although I
am sure that BT users are currently dealing with some sort of "dial
q-seven-pi-cromwell-eleventeen-tomato" scam)].

*— Patrick Crispen*

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