NODE aeab837aRe: NYT on Insecure Phones
cactus@hks.net (L. Todd Masco)Sat, 3 Dec 94 20:27:32 PST
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In article <199412040246.VAA25360@pipe3.pipeline.com>,
John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
> Cellular One of Washington-Baltimore, owned by SBC
> Communications Inc., has sent its customers letters
> notifying them that it would block the service beginning on
> Thursday because it had compiled a huge backlog of phone
> numbers used in New York that appeared to be fraudulent.
It's worse than that! They will allow customers to use their service
in NYC, I'm told by a customer of their's visiting this weekend, if
they pay for the call with a credit card (IE, VISA, MC, etc) that they
must *give* *an* *operator* *over* *the* *cellphone*.
So to avoid their own exposure to fraud, they're requiring their
customers to give credit card info over the cellphone. Thanks, guys.
No pro-34s 'round here, nope.
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NODE a51b0a68Re: NYT on Insecure Phones
Jonathan Cooper <entropy@IntNet.net>Wed, 7 Dec 94 21:46:57 PST
> It's worse than that! They will allow customers to use their service
> in NYC, I'm told by a customer of their's visiting this weekend, if
> they pay for the call with a credit card (IE, VISA, MC, etc) that they
> must *give* *an* *operator* *over* *the* *cellphone*.
Cell1 is just not incredibly smart about security, physical or
otherwise. An aquaintance of mine found a "Fraud Alert Bulletin" in a
Cellular One trash can which warned about the dangers of not shredding
your trash. Of course, in the same bag was wads of credit card info, NAM
& ESN info, etc.
=jon
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NODE e2298ac5Re: NYT on Insecure Phones
Michael Conlen <meconlen@IntNet.net>Thu, 8 Dec 94 07:53:37 PST
On Thu, 8 Dec 1994, Jonathan Cooper wrote:
> Cell1 is just not incredibly smart about security, physical or
> otherwise. An aquaintance of mine found a "Fraud Alert Bulletin" in a
> Cellular One trash can which warned about the dangers of not shredding
> your trash. Of course, in the same bag was wads of credit card info, NAM
> & ESN info, etc.
Nor will they hesadate to give out Cellular programming info over the
phone if you can find there Internal Customer Care phone number, found by
looking at a Cellular One display such as the one's Circuit City is using
in West Florida
Groove on dude
Michael Conlen