On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, Sean Donelan wrote: : 10 percent of a carrier.s bottom line is lost to simple subscription fraud : and other low-tech scams, such as when criminals sign up for service using : fake names. If their sales personnel were not allowed to sign up accounts over the phone or online without doing a credit report and they were not forced to meet inflated quotas, a lot of those accounts would never be accepted in the first place. Identity theft is the #1 fastest growing crime right now because it is easy money and easy to get away with. I laugh every time I see those Citibank identity theft ads on TV because, as funny as they are, they speak the truth. Cell providers are the worst offenders of all. -- Scott Savage scott(at)thewaystation.com www.thewaystation.com Random Quote: Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey OF ALL THE warning sounds that animals make, I think the one that's least effective on me is a kind of clicking noise.