The Port Authority Bus Terminal in midtown Manhattan is a busy place -- a little too busy, as far as AT&T; is concerned. In recent years the terminal's seedy lobby has become a favorite gathering spot for "phone scammers," con artists who sell overseas calls at cut rates using other people's telephone- charge-card numbers. In 1990 some $11 million in fraudulent calls originated from the bus terminal's pay phones alone, according to a report in the New York Daily News -- more than $30,000 worth every day.
The same scam plays out at countless public phones, not just in New York...
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