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[quote=Anonymous]I remember the account numbers for long-distance calls in college. We had room phones in the dorms but long-distance calls were pricy. My parents ( and many others) had account numbers that we would use to call home long distance. You had to call a main number and, when prompted,  press the account number and the call would be billed to our parents. I imagine it was a better deal than calling collect and that was why they were used. We weren’t allowed to make unlimited calls to our friends under our parents’rules, so there was whole number-theft scam that we used in order to have long phone calls with long-distance friends. The account numbers were a certain length and had certain conventions. We would alter some digits and keep trying until a valid one went through. You could write it down and use it a couple of times but had to keep changing numbers so as not to get caught. I had friends who got lazy and would repeatedly use the same number when they found a valid one, or worse, share it among friends. They would inevitably get caught. The account owner would see too many calls that they obviously didn’t make, dispute them, and the phone company would investigate and trace. A friend racked up a pretty hefty bill that she had to eventually pay. I was judicious about my phone fraud, haha, and never got caught. I remember I used a Sprint number.

I think that has been the extent of my criminal activities. (Well, and using fake IDs… ooops)[/quote]

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