wolfgang,
Thanks for the heads up. I'm hoping to get some feedback from Teliax
toll-free customers and see if they would recommend the service. Plus I have
those few questions on billing.
Thanks again,
Ryan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 7:05 PM
Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Re: Teliax billing question
"Ryan Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Is there any other charges because of the toll free number?
I was toying with the idea of getting an 800 number too, but the issue
of a substantial per call fee for pay-phones calls has me worried.
Hopefully someone here can clarify what the deal is there. I've seen
numbers quoted as high as a 60-cents for the payphone settlement.
from: http://www.trac.org/news/2005/tracnotes-vol-3-22.html
Watch Out for New 1-800 Number Scam - An old scam may be cropping up
again for consumers with personal 1-800 numbers. Most long distance
companies charge subscribers a per-call fee for calls placed from a
payphone to a residential 1-800 number. This fee is then sent back to
the owner of the payphone. While this arrangement is perfectly
legitimate, in 2002, scammers in Berkeley, California found a way to
take advantage of the system. They set up a phony payphone company and
connect a bank of payphones to an automatic dialer. The dialer then
randomly dialed 1-800 numbers until it hit a residential toll-free
number. When the call is picked up, the scammer pocketed the 24ยข
fee. Thanks to the auto-dialer, they could quickly rack up profits
from the scam. By the time the operation was shut down by police, they
had netted almost a half million dollars. Reports of a similar scam
are coming in and consumers with residential 800 numbers are urged to
check their April and May long distance bills for mysterious
one-minute phone calls from Denver, Colorado. If you find such a call,
be sure to contact your phone company. For more information on this
scam, click herei. (Thanks to ConsumerWorld.org for this tip.)
WIRELESS WATCH
-wolfgang
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