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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 05:43:29 GMT
- From: ash@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (David Ash)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Good Opportunity For Fraud
- Message-ID: <telecom13.5.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
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- In article <telecom13.3.1@eecs.nwu.edu> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- (John R. Levine) writes:
-
- > The only use to date that I have found for the mag stripe on a calling
- > card is in the card reader phones found mostly at airports, which read
- > the whole calling card number and stuff it down the line at the
- > appropriate time as you're making a phone call.
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- On this topic, has anyone ever found any use at all for the mag strips
- on the calling cards issued by MCI and Sprint? As far as I know, even
- the card readers which allowing billing to these carriers won't allow
- the physical use of the card?
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- David W. Ash ash@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
- HOME: (415) 497-1629 WORK: (415) 725-3859
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