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To: Frederick Langford who wrote (3761)9/24/2001 11:05:11 PM
From: ok1day  Read Replies (2) of 5893
 
From `Urban Legends`

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.

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