Re: the daily telegraph 11/01/00 page 19

["Dan" <dan@flex.com.au>]

Andrew <atailby@mpx.com.au> wrote in message
85h373$n4o$1@news1.mpx.com.au">news:85h373$n4o$1@news1.mpx.com.au...
> this came out of yesterdays daily telegraph
> ticket scam charges
> An e mailer using the name "jeff kennett"has been identified as the person
> responsible for the latest problems plaguing melbournes automatic rail
> ticketing machines.
> Melbourne transport police have charged dozens of people over the scam.
> In november, subscribers to the rail enthusiasts' internet mail list
> Aus.rail were invited to play the "Metcard Pokies".
> a  message from an anonymous email address told subscribers were told how
to
> treat metrail's ticket machines like poker machines.
> The message said if money was repeatedly inserted into the machines and
then
> cancelled, more than the original amount was sometimes returned.
> The message also told how to make the machines malfunction.
>
> Now who says that newsgroups like ours make national newspapers every day.
> andrew
>

The article can also be viewed in my Railway & Transport Page:-
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~phil05/articles.html

Cheers.
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Danny Mok
dan@flex.com.au
http://www.flex.com.au/~dan