Credit card slip
NZPA-AP Bedminster American Telephone and Telegraph company officials said yesterday that they had mailed an estimated 4700 telephone credit cards to the wrong customers, and appealed to consumers to be honest and not use them fraudulently.
AT and T had been mailing out 47 million credit cards when customers began calling to say that they had received cards with the wrong name and telephone number, said Maureen Dvorak, spokeswoman at AT and T’s communications division headquarters at Bedminster, New Jersey.
Ms Dvorak said that the problem had arisen when some cards were placed in the wrong envelopes for mailing and when some customers moved and cards were sent to their old addresses. One Massachusetts customer had received two cards, neither of which belonged to him. A wrong telephone number on the card would result in credit card calls being charged to someone else’s telephone account.
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Press, 3 February 1984, Page 6
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