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Article #2987Re: *** The Worlds Most Profitable Phone Number ***
From: Paul S. Penrod
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 07:16
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 07:16
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In article <463gjk$24q@gw.PacBell.COM> Rick Francis <rfrancis@hooked.net> writes:
>nahender@plains.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson) wrote:
>>
>> 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..."
>
In other words, PT Barnum is correct, yet again.
...Paul
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