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By marilynlynn
@marilynlynn (994)
United States
February 16, 2008 10:15am CST
I just received an E-mail from a good friend pointing something out, and would love to share this with everyone....
You may have already heard of this, I'm not sure.
If someone calls you on your home phone, or cell phone asking you to push (90#), DONT do it. They are telling people that they are working on the lines or something to that effect.
This allows people, full access to make long distant phones calls that will be billed to your phone.
This originated from our jail and prison systems.
The person that sent the E-mail called Verizon, to verify this, and said it to be true, so, BEWARE! :o)
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@hd1027 (257)
• United States
16 Feb 08
I am so glad you told me this, thank you so much for this info, more people like you that warn other people in general, in order to prevent al those scams out there:-)we need to get the word out on this ,since I did not hear about this ,I am running a SCAM POLICE section on my discussion site (feelfree to check ) where I keep our members informed overhere !
May God Bless You!
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@marilynlynn (994)
• United States
16 Feb 08
Right on Brother! Glad to help out if I can. I'll check out your "SCAM POLICE" section, if I can. GOD bless you, too! :o)
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@hd1027 (257)
• United States
16 Feb 08
Weeeeeeeeeell I got your comment and made you my friend, like you said yourself ,you can never be to carefull, and it doesn't hurt to be to carefull, every day people come up with new and more immaginative ways to manipulate people like you and me and their is now way that you cam monitor each and every one, that comes up every second of the day1 so let's be vigilant each and everone of us overhere!;-)
@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
16 Feb 08
Thanks for the heads up. I had never heard of such a thing before. There are always new scams out there. People seem to come up with something new everyday to rip us off with. I hope a lot of people read your post.
I will put it out on my email listing. I reach out to a lot of people all over the US because I am an ex boater and I still keep up with all my boater friends. Thanks again.
Shalom~Adoniah
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@marilynlynn (994)
• United States
16 Feb 08
You are welcome! Oh, and if you hear of anything, be sure and let us know! :o)
Marilyn
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@marilynlynn (994)
• United States
16 Feb 08
Cool profile pic, by the way....... :o)
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@ctrymuziklvr (11057)
• United States
17 Feb 08
I should hope people are smart enough by now not to do stupid things like this. I only answer my phone if I know the number on my caller ID and if it was the phone company which is actually also my cable company I have it so they have to email me and not call me for anything.
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@marilynlynn (994)
• United States
17 Feb 08
Well, right on for you!!!!, for being very safe. Not all people are like that though, that's why I felt the need to say something. Thanks, Country Music Lover..... :o)
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@butterflygrl76 (205)
• United States
17 Feb 08
Thankx for the info. People have nothing better to do than to sit around and figure out ways to mess with people. It gets old. Thaknx :)
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@marilynlynn (994)
• United States
17 Feb 08
Yah, that's about ridiculous..... It does get old, but I'm sure it won't stop, so WE have to stay on our (Toes). Thanks Butterflygrl. Have a nice day. :o)
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@Browisn (782)
• United States
18 Feb 08
I too checked the Urban Legends info in Snoopes.com and learned that this scam works with organizational phones such as hospitals and businesses and other phones that require the caller to dial 9 to make an outside call. These are referred to as PBX Lines. I was also glad for this discussion because it taught me some valuable information about dealing with calls from phone companies and other agencies. HouseCat had some good tips about always getting the callers name and emplopee ID no. when dealing with such calls. Good discussion marilynlynn.
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@marilynlynn (994)
• United States
18 Feb 08
Hi Browisn, Like I said before, a person can never be to safe. Even if none of this were true, It just keeps me on my toes,know what I'm saying? Hopefully it keeps other people on their toes also. Thanks for your thoughts on this subject, have a wonderful day, wherever you are. Marilyn :o)
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