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To: j g cordes who wrote (45769)	6/15/1998 12:09:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 58727

OT I suppose I did get carried away in my response, as I often do. I really have been trying to post less, and if I do post I will try to keep to the topic. Again, I was not swiping at you with the post. I saw where Andrew and Lee gave you URLs to look at so I just posted one of the spoof virus alerts....no ill intent at all. NYC/North Jersey, by the way, are coated in T-Storms as well. I understand areas of Jersey as well as Long Island have Flood Watches. Boston is no better or worse a place to be today.

To: j g cordes who wrote (45769)	6/15/1998 3:15:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 58727

Phone Scam (Hoax?) Well now I have a dilemma. I just got what appears to be a hoax e-mail only this is on telephone security....not a virus. The guy who forwarded it to me had it sent to him by someone who had it sent to him....et cetera. It's a classic. Same drill as the virus hoaxes. Attention getting header...the originator of the letter said he got it from his Information Technology Group...a detail of how the phone scam works....a slammer about how much it will cost you in bucks....more authoritative remarks about how he checked it with UCB Telecom/GTE (evidently his RBOC) and how they said he should warn everyone he knows....and closes with a plea to post the #$%^#$@%^ message everywhere. So I have several phone lines and tried doing it to myself. Doesn't work. Can you imagine how swamped the local phone companies will get if messages of this type get about? Jesus, how do people who have time to create crap like this get access to computers? EDIT Never mind. After writing that last question I realized I see people like that on the "hype" threads all the time.