Miguel_Cruz@ub.cc.umich.edu (03/07/89)
response to Douglas Humphrey's antisocial :) "bridging onto someone
else's line":
If you were connected to someone else's line, for the benefit of free
calls, you could probably afford the hassle/annoyance of connecting
a device that would automatically disconnect you from the line as
soon as someone else picked it up. Hopefully whoever you were talking
to would catch on and hang up. That way they would never hear your
voice and recognize you ('they' being the lawful user of the line).
Also, if you made long distance calls, when your victim got their bill
it would be a small matter for him/her to call the numbers you called
and ask them who you talked to... or they could just have the phone
company compare the numbers you called on their line, to long distance
calls you regularly place on your own line. or they could ask the
phone company to reverse-directory the numbers and compare last names.
Bridging and making a bunch of long-distance calls doesn't seem all
that clever to me. Too many ways for the perpetrator to get caught,
and pretty darn mean.jbn@glacier.stanford.edu (John B. Nagle) (03/15/89)
If you think that someone is bridging onto your line and making calls, a good solution would be to hook up one of those Radio Shack $99 call recorders that prints all numbers dialed and call times for the line to which it is attached. John Nagle
ahmed-shakil@YALE.EDU (Shakil Waiz Ahmed) (04/06/89)
I would like to thank all those of you who responded to my request for
possible phone fraud techniques at Yale. The information you all provided
was extremely valuable and really helped us build our case. We managed to
corner Yale Communications on a quite a lot of issues. The Executive
Committee hearing was today, and it not only voted that they could not prove
my friend to be guilty, but also that she was totally innocent of all charges.
My friend who was totally ignorant of all technical issues wholeheartedly
thanks all of you.
-- Shakil Ahmed
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