Subject: FW: DO NOT PRESS 90# ON YOUR HOME PHONE.

Apparently this cause's your wallet to drain. Jason can you add something to this DO NOT PRESS 90# ON YOUR HOME PHONE. Phil

This Is what i have been told and i trust the source given but from what i have found it mosty affects Company Phone Systems ( PABX Type ) Has any one had this Happen to them ? have posted what i have received from one of my freinds From What it Looks like they might be taking Advantage of a back door in the reverse charge system or the Got a call last night from an individual identifying himself as an AT&T Service Technician who was conducting a test on our telephone lines. He stated that to complete the test I should touch nine (9), zero (0), hash (#) and then hang up. Luckily, I was suspicious and refused. Upon contacting the telephone company, I was informed that by pushing 90#, you give the requesting individual full access to your telephone line, which allows them to place long distance telephone calls billed to your home phone number. I was further informed that this scam has been originating from many of the local prisons. DO NOT PRESS 90# FOR ANYONE. PLEASE pass this on to your friends. Stephen Cooper. Detective Senior Constable 29748 Victoria Police- State Crime Squads. some more info on this scam as i have found on the net What the warning letter floating around the Net doesn't say is that this scam only works on telephones where you have to dial 9 to get an outside line. Unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at home, this scam does not affect residential telephone users. Dialing "nine-zero-pound" on a residential phone will only give you a busy signal. That's it. On some business phones, however, dialing "nine-zero-pound" may transfer a call to an outside operator and give the caller the opportunity to call anywhere in the world and charge it to your business' phone bill ... maybe. It all depends on how your business' telephone system is set up. If your company doesn't require you to dial 9 to get an outside line (for example, if you have a direct outside telephone line on your desk or if your company's phone system requires you to dial a number other than 9 to get an outside line) the "nine-zero-pound" scam does not affect you. Also, if your company's phone system is set up so that you cannot make a long distance call once you have accessed an outside line (a lot of companies now limit all outside lines to local calls only), the "nine-zero-pound" scam does not affect you either. The "nine-zero-pound" story only affects those businesses that require you to dial 9 to get an outside line and then place no restrictions on who or where you can call once you get that outside line. And, just to be anal-retentive, let me say one more time that, unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at home, this scam does not affect residential telephone users.

Actually this scam does effect stupid residential users. The email effects their thinking process, and hijacks a few neurons like a computer virus and reprograms their brain to send out multiple copies of the same email thus infecting more stupid people. As a reward, their brain squirts a small amount of dopamine each time they see the same email from somebody else after the point in time that they have sent it themselves. :-)

soory trash if this topic is a waste of your time you can always leave or are you trying to pick a fight if so come with better bait !!! end of line

Nar, if I was trying to pick a fight, I'd use the >:-( emotion. :-) this one suggests that I find it amusing that I could pick a fight by now throwing another comment your way.

trash, you are an idiot, if you are going to be an idiot, at least be a funny idiot, otherwise just go away