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Re: NYT on Insecure Phones
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In article <[email protected]>,
John Young <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cellular One of Washington-Baltimore, owned by SBC
> Communications Inc., has sent its customers letters
> notifying them that it would block the service beginning on
> Thursday because it had compiled a huge backlog of phone
> numbers used in New York that appeared to be fraudulent.
It's worse than that! They will allow customers to use their service
in NYC, I'm told by a customer of their's visiting this weekend, if
they pay for the call with a credit card (IE, VISA, MC, etc) that they
must *give* *an* *operator* *over* *the* *cellphone*.
So to avoid their own exposure to fraud, they're requiring their
customers to give credit card info over the cellphone. Thanks, guys.
No pro-34s 'round here, nope.
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