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On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jonathan King wrote:
On 5/4/07, Jerry Gamblin <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
I'd tell him to check his phone bill. Its likely a 1-900 type of
number where each call cost him 15-20 bucks.
That sounds like the old 809 scam, but I thought that one had gone away.
It is very odd that they asked him to call when email contact was
already established; were they getting information they could use in the
future for some nefarious purpose? It's hard to say.
Right, it is an old one, but I guess it is possible to use numbers in
other area codes to do that kind of thing...
http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/809.asp
...or it was possible when that article was written two years ago.
Mike
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