Re: [CH] Important phone scam info. got this thru the chile-head

Ray Pfaff (raypfaff@erols.com)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 21:53:10 -0500

David A. Verbil wrote:

> Ray,
>     I feel the way you do about urban legends. But this tale is
> _not_ a legend. I work at Intel, and the Information Technology
> folks there recently verified the reality of this scam.
>                                                         DAVe

Nope.  Sorry, check out http://korova.com/virus/hoax980212.htm.
Bottom line is that if you run a PBX system that uses #90 as an opening to a long
distance line, you may have a problem.  Otherwise you don't.