DanP - This for Real??

[Wood Butcher]

Got this in a email today. Suspect it would be BS but....you never know

>>Subject: Please read and forward on this is not a joke
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>>
>>
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>>DO NOT push 90# on your home phone
>>
>>I 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
>>gaols/prisons. DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE. PLEASE pass this on to your
>>friends. If you have mailing lists and/or newsletters from organisations
>>you
>>are connected with, I encourage you to pass this on.
>>
>>Stephen COOPER
>>
>>Detective Senior Constable 29748
>>
>>Victoria Police State Crime Squads
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>>Level 12, 412 St. Kilda Road,
>>
>>Melbourne
>>
>>(03) 9865 2663

[mkb]

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa021898.htm ;)

[doug the slug]

i've heard of this before, dont do it

[ozwinner]

Its a load of bollocks, this did the rounds some years back.

Al :p

[echnidna]

so what happens when you press 90# ???

[ozwinner]

so what happens when you press 90# ???

The American phone company AT&T, get in touch with,

Stephen COOPER
Detective Senior Constable 29748 at
Victoria Police State Crime Squads
Level 12, 412 St. Kilda Road,
Melbourne

They ring him on, (03) 9865 2663.
And tell him you have done IT, then he comes around for a cuppa and a bickie.

What? :confused:
Maybe I should start a new urban Myff? :p

Al :D

[bitingmidge]

so what happens when you press 90# ???

The voice on the other end of the phone starts to recite Vogon poetry.

P
:D

[ozwinner]

The voice on the other end of the phone starts to recite Vogon poetry.

P
:D

Nah, you get patched through to Mubi, and some very keen Indian starts to sell you a phone.

Al :p

[chrisb691]

Just like Microsoft, the Victorian police don't send out mass emails.

[DanP]

What they all said (except the slimy slug).

Plus there is no such department as the Victoria Police Crime Squads. There are crime squads but they are individually named. So you wouldn't be from the "VP crime squads". You would be from the Homicide Squad, or the Armed Offenders Squad, or Major Fraud, etc, etc.

It's another one of those 'send it to every one you know' type emails.

Dan

[PaulS]

Also Prisoners can't make phone calls to just anyone. They must apply for numbers to be rang and someone else rings them fof them. The numbers are all vetted before hand anyway, asking whether they wished to be put on the prisoners phone list.
Life might be pretty cushy in prison, three square meals, tv, sport, but they don't get everything...

[ozwinner]

Busted!!


Al :p

[fred.n]

Life might be pretty cushy in prison, three square meals, tv, sport, but they don't get everything...


What:eek: no swimming pools:confused: :)

[Harry72]

The voice on the other end of the phone starts to recite Vogon poetry.

P
:DA fate worse than death!:eek:

[Daddles]

Life might be pretty cushy in prison, three square meals, tv, sport, but they don't get everything...

I don't see what's cushy - you're banged up with your chamber pot while some barsteward's messing with your tools :eek:

Richard

[Iain]

Also Prisoners can't make phone calls to just anyone. They must apply for numbers to be rang and someone else rings them fof them. The numbers are all vetted before hand anyway, asking whether they wished to be put on the prisoners phone list....
Not quite true, some years ago there was a problem with witness intimidation, like you said all calls are vetted and checked but at a pre arranged time between villain and his cohort the said number is re directed to the party who does not wish to be called.
Vic prisons used to issue villains with phone cards and they had access to a public phone within the gaol at any time, providing they were not locked up at the time.
Maybe there should be a programme where they could phone up and intimidate Mubi (best Peter Sellers voice 'Mubi, we have your elephant, now stop calling or...................'.