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Re: *** The Worlds Most Profitable Phone Number ***

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From: Rick Francis
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 18:21
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nahender@plains.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson) wrote:
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>    This is a classic scheme with a new twist.  Just some 1-900 line 
>owner looking to screw the most spectacularly stupid among us.

Yeah.  I've seen the recrudescence of this scheme a lot lately.  Used to 
post well-meaning explanations of why you don't want to call the number; 
but I'm afraid it's a case of "Think of it as evolution in action..."

Rick
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From: Rick Francis <rfrancis@hooked.net>
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.acorn,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: *** The Worlds Most Profitable Phone Number ***
Date: 18 Oct 1995 18:21:40 GMT
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