Don't hit 90# on your phone

[mmckee1952]

90# on your telephoneI dialed '0' to check this out, and the operator confirmed that this was correct, so please pass it on.. (l also checked out snopes.com and truthorfiction.com This is true, and also applies to cell phones!) PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW I received a telephone call last evening from an individual identifying himself as an AT&T Service Technician (could also be Telus) who was conducting a test on the telephone lines. 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, which enables them to place long distance calls billed to your home phone number. I was further informed that this scam has been originating from many local jails/prisons. DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE... The GTE Security Department requested that I share this information with EVERYONE I KNOW.After checking with Verizon they also said it was true, so do not dial 90# for anyone! PLEASE HIT THAT FORWARD BUTTON AND PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW

 

[cmhbob]

I'll let you chose your link:

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[versteckt]

I'll let you chose your link:

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Love the response. I am also partial to LMGTFY:

Let me google that for you

 

[Dave]

Not completely true.
90# Telephone Scam - Urban Legends
Analysis by Patrick Crispen:

As shocking as this may sound, the "nine-zero-pound" story is true ... sort of.

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. [It also probably doesn't affect non-U.S. telephone users. This is especially true for British telephone users whose telephone system is so complex that NO ONE in the UK knows how to use BT's phones (although I am sure that BT users are currently dealing with some sort of "dial q-seven-pi-cromwell-eleventeen-tomato" scam)].

— Patrick Crispen (Reprinted from The Internet TourBus, by permission)

This story has been going around internet for MANY years.

 

[weissr]

Scam SPAM

PLEASE HIT THAT FORWARD BUTTON AND PASS THIS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW

The reason that this little gem keeps circulating for so long - some people will post or forward anything without doing their own research.

 

[Calamitus]

Damn mmckee, you've been posting a lot of your emails that have turned out to be spam lately. Has your account been compromised or do you really believe everything that comes into your inbox?

 

[Treo]

Damn mmckee, you've been posting a lot of your emails that have turned out to be spam lately. Has your account been compromised or do you really believe everything that comes into your inbox?

McKee is just a spam troll

 

[~OtisM~]

Oh my god mmcckkeee u simply have to stop with the spam. U are like my grandma. She still has 10,000 free hours of AOL cds that she won't throw away.

Email in ur inbox is not news and isn't worthy of copy paste.

 

[wmodavis]

Did you really check it out or did you just say that to succer a few more people. The worst lie was not that you got a call from ATT but that you checked it out.
Come on folks avoid this kind of junk!
90# Telephone Scam - Urban Legends

 

[The_Outlaw]

Oh my god mmcckkeee u simply have to stop with the spam. U are like my grandma. She still has 10,000 free hours of AOL cds that she won't throw away.

Email in ur inbox is not news and isn't worthy of copy paste.

Ma Vaffanculo AutisM.................

 

[Derrick Viens]

Did some quick research here's some info on this scam.

Scam Artists Can Trick You Into Dialing "90#" on Your Phone And Use Your Line For Long Distance Calls -Truth!  & Fiction!

 

[Tea Man]

The sky is falling! The sky is falling! :biggrin:

 

[Rhino]

Oh my god mmcckkeee u simply have to stop with the spam. U are like my grandma. She still has 10,000 free hours of AOL cds that she won't throw away.

Bet she can stretch her pee pee and get free Viagra too.

 

[K7lvo]

Oh my god mmcckkeee u simply have to stop with the spam. U are like my grandma. She still has 10,000 free hours of AOL cds that she won't throw away.

Email in ur inbox is not news and isn't worthy of copy paste.

Some posts aren't worthy of typing, either, but so far that hasn't stopped you...