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Re: MCI billing fraud ... again


From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 14:19:20 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Stephen Sprunk wrote:


Thus spake "Randy Bush" <randy () psg com>
We're being hit up by MCI's billing fraud again.

mci's billing problems are gross ineptitude, not fraud.  and just
about every major (and many minor) telco has the same mess.

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity."

If its well known that your A/R is a fairy tale (or horror fiction), but
you continue to book it as revenue, how is that not fraud?

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