Re: GeeK: 809 Area code scam

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From: Neil McNeight (mcneight@umich.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 22:46:21 PST

I *just* set my mom straight on this one from another e-mail:

It's kinda fake, but not worth e-mailing thousands of people over. Take a
look at:

http://www.umich.edu/~wwwitd/virus-busters/hoaxes/809scam.html
http://www.bbb.org/alerts/areacode.asp

And the original source, Internet ScamBusters, has revised their original
alert:

http://www.scambusters.com/809Scam.html

-Neil

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Jim Whitehead wrote:

> Bottom line: don't call (809) area code numbers, unless you know the person
> on the other end of the line. Failure to do so may cost you over $2k a
> minute.
>
> for more info:
>
> http://cats-nts.ucsc.edu/809scam.html
>
> - Jim
>
>
>

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