From: khan@ces.cwru.edu (Mansoor Khan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Re: Hello Pakistan
Date: 6 Jan 1993 05:19:59 GMT
Organization: Computer Engineering and Science, Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: world
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yaar-e-ghaar amjad writes 
>>
>>
>>	Well, I was really pissed off few months ago when I could not
>>	call Pakistan using my AT&T card from a Public Phone. AFter
>>	I came back to Cleveland, I called AT&T's 1-800- Number.
>>	I yelled at them in my usual style and asked them to cancel
>>	my damn account. After some yelling I was able to talk to
>>	some "higher-up" :-) and he offered me a deal. He said that
>>	he could unblock my individual card number if I take the responsibility
>>	of paying for the calls made to Pakistan in case my number is stolen.
>>	I accepted the offer and Allah-allah-Khair-sallah.
>>	Those who are willing to take the chance may wanna try this option.
>>
>>Mansoor Khan
>>Cleveland


> Boy you are real Stupid!  Agar number choori hogaya to tairee khalli-pili 
 haat mai aajae gee!
	Haath may itnee baar aa-ee hae keh lootf aaney lagaa hae.
	And ever wondered why I was careful with my batwaa when you
	were around here in August. :-) 
	By the way this khitaab of stupid was kind of fresh air on the net
	when everyone is calling everyone else maa kaa yeh aur baap kaa voh...

> And you know "apne desi bhai" once they get a hold of that number then "they
> keep on going and going and going".
	By the way, all kinds of nationalities are involved in this fraud.
	Remember Varkey Kovac calling for hours. And how about that 
	Lebanese dude in 1983 who, I guess, made a record calling beirut
	for 6 hours.
	And I have recently seen German and French people using this number
	on Coventry( Dont tell me you forgot Coventry's Coffee Shop, 
	hi hi, yeh yaad-e-maazi... grab ley ko-ee RAM mera...)


	History of Tikkaas( a.k.a. Totaa in Detroit etc.)
	---------------------------------------------------

	Amjad Janee it is before you got to Cleveland, Spring 1983.
	One day I was in Sear's Lounge, when Riyaz( apnaa Chinaman) came
	to me and asked me what was my phone number. I told him
	368-8908. Well, that was my Kusch house number. He said he
	wanted my Karachi's phone number. I told him 46****. He took
	me to this phone in the lobby and started punching stuff on the 
	phone. I forced him to hang up and tell me the story. He said
	that he had got this calling card number from his friends in a 
	Texas university who got it from the Tonight Show. Someone had
	sued the Bell Company and Bell company gave an unlimited calling
	card number to this guy as a compensation. This guy was invited
	by J. Carson on Tonight Show. What a story. We believed it.
	Well, this number expired. A new one came. And this kept 
	going on. First couple of times when I called home, I told the
	same Tonight Show story to my parents. Later, when it was obvious
	that this was some kind of fraud, my parents refused to talk to
	me on these choree kay phones. Pretty sharmindah, I dont remember
	using it since then.

	If anyone has any story related to these tikkaas/totaa numbers,
	let's hear it.


>Amjad Qureshi
>Email (amjad@austin.ibm.com)

> "If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you
>  really make them think they'll hate you."

	Ach'haa beta, toom nay bhee doom-ch'halaa lagaa liyaa!  
 

Mansoor Khan
Cleveland

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