Newsgroups: alt.current-events.net-abuse, news.admin.policy
Followup-To: alt.current-events.net-abuse
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 03 Feb 1995 16:03:40 GMT
Subject: More junk email: Card Call USA

bo...@emile.math.ucsb.edu (Axel Boldt) wrote of Kevin Lipsitz's
recent calling card spam:

: Spammed almost the whole usenet repeatedly with anonymous
: ads (Hi, my name is Anne Nelson...") for a long distance
: calling plan. He was warned by the admin of the anon server,
: then lost his account there and did it again with a new account.
: He told me on the phone that a company called
:         Card Call USA, INC.
:         6232 N. 7th ST. #109
:         Phoenix, AZ 85014
:         Phone: 602-264-7000
:         Fax: 602-266-0687
: uses a pyramid-like promotion scheme where every customer
: gets a commission for each new customer they bring and in turn
: for each new customer these new ones bring and so on up to
: level 7.

I recently received e-mail from CCU...@ix.netcom.com, providing a fax
number (703)849-8269 to join in with their scam\macs/program; I don't
know if this is the company itself, Lipsitz, or some other pyramid
junky.  The subject: header indicates that they snarfed my address
from a Usenet posting (in alt.business.misc, biz.misc, general, and
misc.forsale).  But the message wasn't about my posting, just an ad.

I complained to postmas...@netcom.com, and their customer support
staffer says that CCUSAI has now been told to stop sending unsolicited
email.  Be sure to let them know if the situation recurs.

Dan
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil