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| Thread ID: 36310 | 2003-08-05 23:28:00 | Phone Scam: Do not press 90# | agent (30) | Press F1 |
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| 165689 | 2003-08-06 02:29:00 | Well if Agent did phone Telecom and got confirmation from someone there that it is genuine and not a hoax then what does that say about Telecom?? Their frontline staff should all be as informed as the one Iris dealt with. |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 165690 | 2003-08-06 02:41:00 | This problem may affect older PABXs. Ours is not. Even if we dial 10#. I suspect that it is true for older PABXs as there control sofware may be unpatched for this error. As a lot of PABXs are made or designed in the US, it wont hurt to actually test your own PABX. Simply direct-dial a collegue with your cellphone or outside line and ask them to press 90# or 10# and if you go nowhere you are safe. No need to hassle Telecom. |
KiwiTT (4082) | ||
| 165691 | 2003-08-06 02:55:00 | *cough* This hoax was thoroughly debunked in the newspapers some time over the last 14 days so give Godfather and Telecom a break by not perpetuating it in this thread. Must be a slow posts day :D Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 165692 | 2003-08-06 03:45:00 | Telecom's Manager of Fraud services has said this is a HOAX and will not work in NZ or 10# or 90# | KiwiTT (4082) | ||
| 165693 | 2003-08-06 05:35:00 | My brother in law works at Telecom, and he also says it is a hoax. | caffy (2665) | ||
| 165694 | 2003-08-06 11:39:00 | How come everyone knows someone who works in Telecom? | vk_dre (195) | ||
| 165695 | 2003-08-07 07:02:00 | Maybe coz it's a big company? | caffy (2665) | ||
| 165696 | 2003-08-08 10:18:00 | OK, Ok here's the low down, I've been in Telecommunications since 1979, the last ten years in PABX's. Here's what happens, If some one told you to dial 90# or even 10# then all they would hear in their ears is 3 DTMF beeps. The trick is whether or not they have asked you to press the transfer key on your keyphone first if you were connected to a PABX. Now most PABX operators know full well that this will initiate a call transfer, when they dial 1 or 9 this transfer will send the incoming caller back out on an outgoing line, the 0 initiates a call to the toll network but the hash or # would simply be an incorrect digit, which would be rejected by the toll network and no such number tone would be returned to the caller. Bottom line, it really is a hoax. | sinndisco (4059) | ||
| 165697 | 2003-08-09 02:42:00 | Good question - what does this say about Telecom ? I was extremely cynical about this one and also rang Telecom . The chap there assured me it was true - and I believed him! How embarrassing! Jay |
j.harper (2905) | ||
| 165698 | 2003-08-09 05:45:00 | Perhaps the representative that j.harper and I spoke to thought we were asking if it was a hoax. I don't know about Mr Harper, but I was asking if the 90# thing was real - if it would work. In any case, I don't like Telecom - they pretty much have a monopoly as a provider, and my current knowledge is that they have a monopoly on telephone lines - does TelstraClear still rent access to the lines, or do they use their own now? |
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