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Article #148Re: Phone conversion fraud
From: Laurie D. T. Mann
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 17:20
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 1995 17:20
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Susan Hinrichs (shinrich+@CANARY.WARP.CS.CMU.EDU) wrote: > On my most recent home phone bill, I notice that someone had changed my > long distance carrier from AT&T to Sprint. After tracing down Bell Atlantic > to Sprint, I reached a reseller "Key Communications", which of course does > not have a service representative available to explain what is going on. > Has this happened to you? This seems like at best dishonest and at worst > illegal behavior. I'm only out $10 in switching fees, but I'm quite > irritated by the whole thing. Besides sending angry letters to all involved > is there anything else that I can do? I'd report it to the state attorney general's office. There's an easy way to avoid this kind of stuff: ALWAYS hang up on all telemarketers We've always done this. It saves lots of time and aggravation. *** Laurie Mann * lmann@telerama.lm.com * http://www.lm.com/~lmann ***
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fb37e,a736bb5c8adf624f X-Google-Attributes: gidfb37e,public X-Google-Thread: 107959,a736bb5c8adf624f X-Google-Attributes: gid107959,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-08 12:21:37 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ysu.edu!hudson.lm.com!india.lm.com!not-for-mail From: lmann@telerama.lm.com (Laurie D. T. Mann) Newsgroups: pgh.general,cmu.cs.general Subject: Re: Phone conversion fraud Followup-To: pgh.general,cmu.cs.general Date: 8 Mar 1995 12:20:31 -0500 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3jkp0v$jr6@india.lm.com> References: <3jkh21$64m@cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: india.lm.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]