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AT&T TAKES NEW STEPS TO STOP CALLING CARD FRAUD
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[ Internal AT&T Document, provided to the masses by
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George Bush/TGH. I will upload a scanned Gif of this letter during the
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next few days, what is in '[]' is my own writing ]
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[AT&T Logo]
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July 9, 1993
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Document number 427
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Classified information, for AT&T business executives rank
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senior or higher [underlined] only.
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Everything below is copyright (c) American Telegraph &
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Telephone company. It may not be reprinted or reproduced in any
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way. Neither is anyone allowed to mention or discuss the contents
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of this document with anyone apart from the people
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mentioned in the first line. Anyone violating this concept
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will be charged for breaking copyrights, fired
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(if an employee of AT&T) and sued for potential damages.
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The remedies set forth in this statement are in lieu of any
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others, oral or written, expressed or implied.
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As previous information sheets have told, (# 177,253,287)
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AT&T calculates with an measurable loss caused by
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abuse of the AT&T calling cards.
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The loss has so far been 70% less than at the same
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time last year, but it still shows. In order to further
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reduce the cost of calling card abuse AT&T plans to
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introduce C M R (Computerlinked Matching and Reporting).
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CMR is software, hardware and humans working together to
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detect and act upon calling card abuse.
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As mentioned in previous information sheets
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(# 112, 177, 253, 287), calling card accounts are being
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transferred by BBS' (Bulletin Board Systems) to all over the
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world, leading several identical calling card accounts to
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being abused at the same time.
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This will not be possible any longer with the introduction
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of CMR.
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CMR will automatically match all calling cards in operation
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continuously and when two matching calling cards are found
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to be in operation at the same time, an AT&T operator will
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be notified. The computer will then automatically try to
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locate the calling card users (working on the presumption
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that only one calling card is usually being used at a time),
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and detect the kind of conversation. The computer will
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[Bold Underlined] not tape any voice conversations, it will
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merely register the kind of conversation, being it voice,
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data or other.
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This information will be stored in a record and the original
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owner of the calling card will be contacted and asked if
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permission has been given, if that is not the case AT&T will
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take legal actions towards the abusers.
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AT&T Hopes this will reduce the abuse of the AT&T calling
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cards, and benefit our customers.
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CMR is planned to be introduced in February 1994.
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Detailed information concerning the CMR is available upon
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request to executives with proper authority.
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AT&T Technical director, Jonathan Biss
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[signature]
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[ Bush: Well, fellow CC users, this is not good, assuming this
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will go in order it seems AT&T will be able to match, and
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then trace any call and its contents, as we all know, there
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are few CC's and a LOTS of users, and if anybody are using
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the same CC at one time..BANG. But if we handle this with
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care, it wont mean to much. As we all know, Ripco is the
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leading BBS (Nice to see you're in business again),
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thus TGH has decided that Ripco shall be the place were we
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discuss this. As we know, Ripco has one of the tightest
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validations schemes, yet over 400 users, with regular
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number bulletins, we are currently working on a system which
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will make you, the users of Ripco safe from CMR, provided
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everybody follows the rules. Further information concerning
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this will start appearing at Ripco during the next few
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months, so if you are not registered at Ripco we cant help
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you. Because of this new CMR the sysop at Ripco has agreed
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to extend the user roof to 750 users. Validation will
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continue until August, then it will become a permanently (?)
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closed system. We feel that with 700-800 users Ripco will be
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able to provide and be provided with enough necessary
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information so that its users will not have to fear CMR.
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REMEMBER!: If you have any new information, dont be a lamer
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and sit on it, we must exchange all information with each
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other. ]
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