Yep, I forget who she was, but her accent and all were fake. 
Surprise!!!
73
Butch
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2015, Harvey Heagy wrote:

> I thought I remembered hearing that Miss Cleo was indicted for fraud, but I
> am not certain of that.
>
> There were other so-called psychic lines that they found out just hired
> people to man the phones and were paid but weren't psychics at all.
> Harvey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Martin G. McCormick
> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 11:08 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Before There Was Caller I D
>
> 	I remember ads for those psychic lines and all the jokes
> that followed when the psychic lines went bust and none of them
> apparently foresaw the demise.
>
> 	I always imagined an ad that might go something like this:
>
> 	Hi! Are you concerned that you just don't have the grey
> matter to cut it in this competitive world?
>
> 	Well now you can take an IQ test right in the privacy of
> your own home by dialing
>
> 1 900 AMI DUMB
>
> The test is electronically done using brain wave cross talk that
> bleeds back in to the phone line from your head so it can be
> scored simply by your dialing the number. Test as often as you
> like for only ten Dollars a test. The one to two-digit number
> you hear when the call is answered is your estimated IQ for the
> test.
>
> We now rejoined Roller Derby in progress.
>
> 	If I was providing such a questionable service, I would
> give the caller a slightly lower score each time they called. I
> don't believe that this would be inaccurate or misleading.
> 	As a rule of thumb, we never answer calls from numbers
> we do not recognize or names that say something cute like
> "toll-free call" or "line in use."
>
> 	After the 4TH ring, the answering machine picks up and 9
> times out of 10, they leave no message.
>
> Martin
>
>