JUST A FRIENDLY CAUTION!  CAUTION!!  CAUTION!!!

Please take note and share the below information with your family, friends
acquaintances or whoever comes to mind that has a telephone.  You would do
a great favor to yourself and those people saving everyone some pennies,
dimes, nickles, quarters, dollars or hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
 Hope this friendly CAUTION is not a little too late.  GOOD LUCK!

Richard Yarl
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5725 Raymond Rd., #1
Madison, WI 53711-4265
(608) 277-5687 (H)
(608) 226-2476 (Pager)
1-888-257-2638 PIN# 2034 (Home Business)

'Helping People Build Their Tomorrow Today'
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> Subject: Scam Alert!
> Date: Sunday, May 31, 1998 8:41 AM
>
> This is important... Notify your customers.
>
>
> BEWARE!! BEWARE!! BEWARE!!!!!!
> Message posted by Benny Vine ([log in to unmask]) on Saturday, May 30 at
> 08:46 PM EDT
>
> A friend of mine sent this to me and I thought everyone should read it
and
> take it for what it is worth. I received a telephone call from an
> individual identifying himself as an AT&T Service Technician that was
> running a test on our telephone lines. He stated that to complete the
test
> we should touch nine (9), zero (0), pound sign (#) and hang up. Luckily,
we
> were suspicious and refused. Upon contacting the telephone company we
were
> informed that by pushing 90# you end up giving the individual that called
> you access to your telephone line and allows them to place a long
distance
> telephone call, with the charge appearing on your telephone call. We were
> further informed that this scam has been originating from many of the
local
> jails/prisons. I have verified with UCB Telecomm that this actually
> happens. Please beware. This sounds like an Urban Legend - IT IS NOT!!! I
> called GTE Security this morning and verified that this is definitely
> possible and DO NOT press 90# for ANYONE. It will give them access to
your
> phone line to make long distances calls ANYWHERE!!!! The GTE Security
> department told me to go ahead and share this information with EVERYONE I
> KNOW!!! Could you PLEASE pass this on. If you have mailing lists and/or
> newsletters from organizations you are connected with, I encourage you to
> include this information
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> Todd James Weger RD/RTD
> [log in to unmask]
> "Straight Ahead Into the Future"