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| 556.1 | | TASTY::JEFFERY | Kevin holds a place for those who pray. | Thu Apr 30 1992 09:17 | 5 |
| Mike,
what did you expect?
Mark.
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| 556.2 | How? | UBOHUB::HOLLANDS_C | | Thu Apr 30 1992 12:37 | 7 |
| Mike,
How did you find out what this "unique method" actually was?
We've been racking our brains trying to work out what it could be!
Cathy
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| 556.3 | | PAPERS::PARRY | Trevor Parry | Thu Apr 30 1992 13:05 | 6 |
| Yes I got the piece of paper.
I'm interested to find out how, but not if it costs me anything,
so I'll ask aswell, How did you find out ?
Tp
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| 556.4 | It was in the papers | LARVAE::MUTCH | Be kind to your mind | Thu Apr 30 1992 13:19 | 4 |
| It was in the newspaper last week. They send you back a letter telling
you to write to BT and ask to have your phone disconnected.
Graeme.
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| 556.5 | TV | UBOHUB::BOARDMAN_K | I sponge no more than I drink | Fri May 01 1992 15:36 | 2 |
| It was also exposed on a recent That's Life program...Keith
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| 556.6 | | TASTY::JEFFERY | Kevin holds a place for those who pray. | Sun May 03 1992 14:14 | 5 |
| RE: .5
Whats wrong with what they are doing?
Mark.
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| 556.7 | re .-1: Legally or morally? | AUSSIE::GARSON | | Mon May 04 1992 01:19 | 0 |
| 556.8 | People in glass houses ? | COMICS::BELL | Hear the softly spoken magic spell | Tue May 05 1992 10:01 | 12 |
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Nothing wrong at all.
It's the same set of business skills exhibited when persuading a customer
to fork out for "Installation services" and to get a bozo who knows nothing
about the product walking in and typing "@SYS$UPDATE:VMSINSTAL ...", taking
all the default options and walking out again :-)
If there wasn't "one born every minute", this company would suffer along
with the rest ...
Frank
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| 556.9 | | AUSSIE::GARSON | | Wed May 06 1992 01:01 | 6 |
| Well to take a different tack...
I've noticed several times in UK newspapers advertisements for
devices(?) that enable you to make free calls. Is it legal to buy?
sell? use? these things. Do they even work or is this also some sort of
scam?
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| 556.10 | Dangerous | COMICS::WEGG | Some hard boiled eggs & some nuts. | Wed May 06 1992 09:31 | 18 |
| � I've noticed several times in UK newspapers advertisements for
� devices(?) that enable you to make free calls. Is it legal to buy?
� sell? use? these things. Do they even work or is this also some sort of
� scam?
They are not illegal to buy, sell or own, but of course it is
illegal to defraud British Telecom in any way.
The other problem is, they're tracable. If you use it on your own
phone, you'll very soon get a visit from the authorities, and it is
no longer possible to use them from phone boxes.
I know someone who used one (from a phone box before BT changed
them) to phone relatives in Australia. Later his relatives received
a call from BT trying to find out who it was who phoned them.
Ian.
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| 556.11 | the answer according to the Gazette | PAPERS::PARRY | Trevor Parry | Fri May 15 1992 09:57 | 21 |
| RE: .0
Well this doesn't appear to be the same scam as telling
you not to make any phone calls.
Front page of the Gazette had an article on how the
company is being investigated by the trading standards
authority. What the papers says is that for �9.75 you
get a single piece of A4 paper telling you to collect
used phone cards then sell them to a 'collector', claiming
that phone card collecting is a growing hobby.
The only way I can see that this would cut your phone bills
is if you made all your calls using a phonecard, then
managed to sell it to a collector at a profit. But what
kind of collector is going to pay more for a used phonecard
than a mint one ? 8-}
Well at least I saved �9.60 by buying the Gazette.
tp
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