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90# on your telephone

(l checked out Snopes.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!!!
Reply to
GrammyKathy
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Any email that says: "PLEASE HIT THAT FORWARD BUTTON AND PASS THIS ON

Snopes actually says this only applies to PBX phone systems, NOT residential or cell phones.

To be ON topic, I am actually taking a break from putting away Christmas stuff, so I can set up my dining room table as Machine- Quilting Central, and start attacking that huge stack of tops.

Ginny in snowy Vermont, waiting for 12" more today

Reply to
ginny

Um, no. It's an urban legend in the form that it's circulated, and is only partially true, in a very limited circumstance that doesn't affect most of the folks who receive this email.

It does NOT apply to cell phones at all, and ONLY applies to business phones which require that you dial 9 to access an outside line: centrex switchboard systems have the capacity to transfer someone to an outside line, and that's what that does. Your home phone (or cell phone) IS an "outside line", it can't be anything else, and you can't transfer someone to it.

Which is clearly stated both at snopes and at urbanlegends.com.

The big neon sign that says "urban legend" to this?

Corporations do not 'request' that enquirers share whatever information they've asked for with "EVERYONE THEY KNOW". In well over a decade online, now, I have yet to see a *single* email that insists (on whatever authority) that you share it with "everyone you know" that wasn't false.

Not one, in 14 years. And honestly, I don't expect to ever see one.

--pig

Reply to
Megan Zurawicz

Couldn't agree with you more.....people are vulnerable via email when they read those requests. It's flooding inboxes with useless junk mail. Hit the DEL key not the FWD. Bronnie

Reply to
Bronnie

And if it says it's been checked with Snopes, don't believe it unless you verify it yourself. Some of the hoaxers are on to the fact that some people do check Snopes and try to make you think their story has been verified.

Julia in MN

Reply to
Julia in MN

On another note, I once worked for a large organization/wide spread, we could dial the three digit phone code for any of the branches then "9" to get an outside line, doing so eliminated long distance charges to our office/desk phone. Some would dial a branch and page themselves as a joke, branch manager would sometimes get angry that someone was on site without signing in.

Reply to
Bonnie Patterson

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