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Re: how to become a millionaire

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From: Craig Cockburn
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 21:53
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Ann an sgriobhainn <Oir88.3300$H9.875144@news1.cableinet.net>, sgriobh 
Ken Johnson <kenneth.johnson@cableinet.co.uk.=NO=SPAM=>
>pounds etc. etc., and at that point, knowing an intended fraud when I hear
>one, I hung up.  I dialled 1471 and found, surprise surprise, that the
>origin of the call had been anonymized - why is this legal, for God's sake?
>

14258 will block calls from them in future, even if the number is 
withheld.
The number they are calling from is released to the exchange, it's only 
withheld from *you*.

-- 
Craig Cockburn ("coburn"). SiliconGlen.com Ltd. http://SiliconGlen.com
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From: Craig Cockburn <craig@SiliconGlen.com>
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,uk.misc,ed.general
Subject: Re: how to become a millionaire
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:53:26 +0000
Organization: Silicon Glen - Scotland's Internet
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