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Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :

I think pretty much all of us can agree that this is a bad idea for many reasons...

Have you seen it?

*38

Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :

This is interesting...

An interesting Email Convo

The founder claims in the above email transcript that he will change the website. But he hasn't. (star38.com)

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

From the founder's email reply:

quote:
This is actually legal because the number be used is not random and it can and it linked back to the collections agency - so if the debtor calls back the number that is listed on their caller id they will be directly linked to the collections call center. ...”

So he's trying to tell me that if a collections agency calls me and Star38's my mother's phone number into the system, when I later call my mother, I'm going to get the collections agency instead? <braindrain> That's certainly what that sounds like to me!

Goody

Posted by Zevlag (Member # 1405) on :

And he opts out...

quote:
Three days after the startup company Star38 began offering a service that fools Caller ID systems, the founder, Jason Jepson, has decided to sell the business. Jepson said he had received harassing e-mail and phone messages and even a death threat taped to his front door.

[ September 05, 2004, 01:44 AM: Message edited by: Zevlag ]

Posted by Katarain (Member # 6659) on :

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He said that because he did not know who was threatening him, he thought it would be fruitless to seek police help.

Hmm.... Maybe they were using Star38.

-Katarain

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

<snickersnort>

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

[Evil Laugh]