Pressing #90 or 90# Urban Legend Partly True
November 9th, 2007 | DallasI just received an email from our neighbor coordinator alerting us that someone had received a call from AT&T (or Telus) and that they are testing their phone line and to press #90. This “supposedly” will give access to the person to make long distances call but charged to your phone.
So I looked into this and seem like this is just another chain letter that’s been going around since 1998. You can see it yourself on about.com and is known as an urban legen that’s partly true. Partly true because:
‘What the warning letter floating around the Net doesn’t say is that this scam only works on telephones where you have to dial 9 to get an outside line. Unless you have to dial 9 to get an outside line at home, this scam does not affect residential telephone users. Dialing “nine-zero-pound” on a residential phone will only give you a busy signal. That’s it.”
I would just read the bottom comment on that page and also read it from the following sites. Regardless of what it does or doesn’t do, I’m sure you would know not to do anything that’s asked of you from anyone who calls out of the blue.
