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Cook County prison inmates
posing as Sheriffs are scamming St. Louis households with calls that start with a request to aid someone who has just been in an accident by calling a number that starts with *72. The prefix activates
call forwarding, allowing all incoming calls to ring at an alternate number; the calls are then billed to the victim.
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AT&T has raised the price of call waiting, call forwarding, and caller ID by $1.01 per month for all California customers that do not subscribe to a service bundle. This marks
AT&T's second rate hike since the California Public Utilities Commission stopped regulating phone rates last summer in the name of "promoting competition." AT&T is not hesitant to admit that the rate increases are designed to prod consumers into signing up for bundled phone and internet packages:
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