Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:17:05 -0500 (EST) From: tom@tomqnx.com (Tom Torrance at home) To: ptorrance@shl.com, ktorrance@nelson.com, jeanie@tomqnx.com, ai369@rocketmail.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Fw: Phone Scam Alert (fwd) Message-ID: <m0zZFMP-000HytC@TomQNX.tomqnx.com>
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--ELM909757025-7189-0_ Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Forwarded message from Alan Landsberg Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: <zedajal@magma.ca> Received: from mx1.magmacom.com by TomQNX.tomqnx.com with esmtp (Smail3.2 #1) id m0zZ21H-000HytC; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:02:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from mag1.magmacom.com (mag1.magmacom.com [206.191.0.210]) by mx1.magmacom.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA23232; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:02:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from zedajal (port38.magma.ca [206.191.5.38]) by mag1.magmacom.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with SMTP id TAA25711; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 19:01:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000601be0333$99868d20$2605bfce@zedajal> From: "Alan Landsberg" <zedajal@magma.ca> To: "Youdell Diana -CIDA" <diana.youdell@acdi-cida.x400.gc.ca>, "Yossel" <joegladstone@msn.com>, "David Wright" <david_wright@inmarsat.org>, "Whelan, Greg" <Greg.Whelan@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca>, "Greg Whelan" <whelang@rc.gc.ca>, "Greg Whelan" <Greg.Whelan@ms.rc.gc.ca>, "Valerie Ward" <vgward@helix.net>, "George Venner" <pgman@mail.island.net>, "Laurie Van Hoorn" <vanholau@adan.kingston.net>, "Trahan, Dan" <Dan.Trahan@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca>, "Tom Torrance" <tom@tomqnx.com>, "Shah, Girish" <Girish.Shah@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca>, "Sansom, Dick" <Dick.Sansom@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca>, "Dick Sansom" <dsansom@istar.ca>, "Bill Rutledge" <melrutledge@sympatico.ca>, "Dorothy Riddle" <DRiddle@compuserve.com>, "Ron Pimblett" <ronald_pimblett@dlx2000.com>, "Todd Pellerin" <taps@sprint.ca>, "Angela Patterson" <ANGELA_PATTERSON@acdi-cida.gc.ca>, "Cameron Passmore" <cpassmore@pwlcapital.com>, "Rita Paleschuck" <r.paleschuck@juno.com>, "Claire Ouellet" <ouelletc@stlaurent.com>, "Elaine CycleMomma O'Reilly" <eoreilly@cyberus.ca>, "Carol Ann Musser" <cmusser@northnet.org>, "Harold Murdock" <hmurdoc@ibm.net>, "Mary McWhinney" <marym@cyberus.ca>, "Ray McNeil" <raymond.macneil@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca>, "Susan McMurray" <Speaking@web.net>, "Kent McLean" <jmclean@cyberus.ca>, "Carol and Don McKinley" <mckinley@abacon.com>, "Marvin MacRae" <mmacrae@comnet.ca>, "Al Malo" <almalo@sunbeach.net>, "Otto Magnus" <Magnusotto@hetnet.nl>, "Carole Magnus" <Carolinec@delcom.ca>, "MacNeil, Ray" <Ray.MacNeil@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca>, "Barbara MacCallum" <bemaccal@aol.com>, "Meg Luxton" <mluxton@yorku.ca>, "Lansdowne Outdoor Recreation Park" <lorda@north.nsis.com>, "Bruce Lindsay" <blindsay@dttus.com>, "Bill Lidington" <bill.lidington@ivation.com>, "Ilana Lewis" <mcklewis@concentric.net>, "Avi Lewis" <alewis@ilap.com>, "John & Barb Larocque" <gramparock@intranet.ca>, "Stephen @work Landsberg" <slandsberg@attcanada.com>, "Stephen @home Landsberg" <slandsberg@attcanada.net>, "Peter Landsberg" <plands@monisys.ca>, "Michele @ work Landsberg" <MLWRITER@web.apc.org>, "Michele @ home Landsberg" <mlwriter@web.net>, "Marc David Landsberg" <marcl@dkaweb.com>, "John @ work Michael Landsberg" <JLANDSB@co.santa-barbara.ca.us>, "John @ home Michael Landsberg" <writer@silcom.com>, "David @home Landsberg" <dlands@magma.ca>, "Landsberg, David" <David.Landsberg@jci.com>, "Alan Landsberg" <zedajal@magma.ca>, "Leo Klump" <klump@mondenet.com>, "Harish Kapoor" <harish.kapoor@ca.coopers.com>, "Johnson, Steve" <Steve.Johnson@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca>, "Joe & Louise" <Belanghook@aol.com>, "Isabella Bakker" <76602.1251@compuserve.com>, "Enid and Zelig Hurwitz" <zhurwitz@pacificcoast.net>, "Wally Humphries" <Whumphreys@NS.sympatico.ca>, "Jim Humphries" <hump@NS.sympatico.ca>, "John Herzog" <john.herzog@ca.coopers.com>, "Stephanie Glassman" <Stephie285@aol.com>, "Diana Fox" <difox@dttus.com>, "Bob Fitzsimons" <robert.fitzsimons@sympatico.ca>, "Angelo Faria" <afaria@imf.org>, "Tom Erickson" <thomas.erickson@lmco.com>, "Lorne Doolan" <eb287@freenet.carleton.ca>, "Lawrence Doolan" <ldoolan@ca.ibm.com>, "Donna Lee" <ccdffcac@magi.com>, "Desruisseaux, Laurent" <Laurent.Desruisseaux@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca>, "Vic & Fran Charlebois" <bristen@direct.ca>, "Caspersen, Karen" <Karen.Caspersen@ms.rc.gc.ca>, "Carriere, Bernard" <Bernard.Carriere@ms.rc.gc.ca>, "Jan Campbell-Luxton" <jan@stratford.webgate.net>, "Brian Cahill" <bcahill@mirror.det.mun.ca>, "Peter Businger" <businger@cyberus.ca>, "Francine Burel" <fburel@magma.ca>, "John David Brondolo" <JBRONDOLO@imf.org>, "Brian and Barbara" <bandb@laguna.com.mx>, "Maria Booth" <Booth.Maria@tbs-sct.gc.ca>, "Tony Boeckh" <tboeckh@bcapub.com>, "@ UK Bezansons" <Bezanson@btinternet.com>, "Tim Bezanson" <Bezanson.Tim@tbs-sct.gc.ca>, "Kate @ York Bezanson" <bezanson@yorku.ca>, "Dave (MacDonald) Bennett" <dbenne@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca>, "Danielle J. Belanger" <danielle.j.belanger@ca.pwcglobal.com>, "Mona Barakat" <mchrome@magma.ca>, "George-CSD Arsenijevic" <George-CSD.Arsenijevic@ms.rc.x400.gc.ca> Subject: Fw: Phone Scam Alert Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 06:58:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Priority: 1 X-MSMail-Priority: High X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mx1.magmacom.com id TAA23232 there are so many dopey alarmist messages coming over the internet that i don't pass them on any more unless i have some reason to believe they're valid. in this case i simply phoned the bell and they confirmed that thi= s is a real scam and that the alert is bona fide ... alan _________________________________________________________________________= ___ ____________ (LA VERSION FRAN=C7AISE SUIT PLUS BAS.) The purpose of this e-mail is to alert people about a possible fraudulent scam. See message below that was forward to me from a colleague. Please notify as many friends and contacts as possible. I received a telephone call today from an individual identifying himself = as an AT&T Service Technician who was conducting a test on our telephone lin= es. He stated that to complete the test I should touch nine (9), zero (0), the pound sign (#) 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, wh= ich allows them to place long distance telephone calls billed to your home ph= one number. I was further informed that this scam has been originating from m= any of the local jails/prisons. I have also verified this information with UCB telecomm, Pacific Bell, MC= I, Bell Atlantic, GTE and NYNEX. Please beware. DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE. The GTE Security Department requested that I share this information with EVERYONE I KNOW. PLEASE pa= ss this on to everyone YOU know. If you have mailing lists and/or newsletter= s from organizations you are connected with, I encourage you to pass on thi= s information to them, too. Ron Hamelin ------------------------------------- Le but de ce e-mail est pour alerter les gens concernant des appels t=E9l=E9phoniques frauduleuses possible. J'ai re=E7u ce courriel d'une c= oll=E8gue qui se r=E9sume ainsi: Ron Hamelin qui travaille =E0 l'=E9difice Vanier a re=E7u un appel d'un i= ndividu s'identifiant comme un technicien de AT&T qui effectuait un test sur les lignes t=E9l=E9phoniques. Pour compl=E9ter ce test le technicien demande= de peser sur le neuf (9), zero (0), et le di=E8se (#) et raccrocher. Heureusement= , puisque Ron =E9tait suspect, il a refus=E9. Par la suite, il a =E9t=E9 inform=E9 par une compagnie de t=E9l=E9phone,q= ue s'il avait effectu=E9 le 90#, il aurait donn=E9 =E0 l'individu l'acc=E8s complet =E0= sa ligne t=E9l=E9phonique, qui veut dire que l'individu aurait pu placer des appel= s interurbains qui aurait =E9t=E9 factur=E9 =E0 son num=E9ro de t=E9l=E9pho= ne =E0 la maison. Ron a =E9t=E9 aussi inform=E9 que l'origine de cette fraude provient des = prisons. Cette information a =E9t=E9 v=E9rifi=E9 avec UCB Telecom, Pacific Bell, M= CI, Bell Atlantic, GTE and NYNEX. S.V.P. NE PAS FAIRE CETTE COMBINAISON 90# POUR PERSONNE. S.V.P. Avertir autant d'amis et coll=E8gues que possible. --ELM909757025-7189-0_-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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