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Subject: Re: Telephone warning: Ignore - well known hoax

Author: Chris Taylor

Date: 09:30:33 01/31/03

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On January 31, 2003 at 12:27:10, George Sobala wrote:

>On January 31, 2003 at 12:08:56, William H Rogers wrote:
>
>>A new kind of scam is working its way across the country and that is someone
>>will call you and say that they are testing the phone lines and would you press
>>'9', '0', '#' and hang up. What this does is give permission for that person to
>>make longdistant calls that are billed to your phone number. I have not called
>>my local phone company to verify this fact but it came to me from very reliable
>>source.
>>Bill
>
>Rubbish. Well known hoax that has been circulating round the world for several
>years now.


Thanks I will not do what I said I will not do.  Had this been real...

My head is still hurting from the Kasparov match..

Chris.



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