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Verizon Tech Accused Of Making $220K In Sex Calls On User Lines

Posted by samzenpus on from the lots-of-lotion dept.

Joseph Vaccarelli, a former Verizon Technician, has been charged with racking up $220,000 in phone-sex calls by tapping into the land lines of nearly 950 customers. Authorities say that he made approximately 5,000 calls, resulting in 45,000 minutes of call time. Verizon estimated that out of a 40-week period, Vaccarelli spent 15 weeks talking on sex lines. How in the world do you have this much phone sex, period, but especially at work, and not have anyone notice?

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  1. You can have that much... by Sinryc · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can have that much by either being very very good, or very very bad at it.

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    1. Re:You can have that much... by MrNaz · · Score: 4, Funny

      How in the world do you have this much phone sex, period, but especially at work, and not have anyone notice?

      He told his boss that he was only going to take a 0.002 hour break.

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    2. Re:You can have that much... by __aavonx8281 · · Score: 5, Funny

      "How in the world do you have this much phone sex, period, but especially at work, and not have anyone notice?"

      Lol! You work at a phone company if you don't want to get noticed spending too much time on the phone!

      Customer: "What are you doing?"
      Phone Tech: "Uh, checking the line."
      Customer: "No! With your other hand!"

  2. Obligatory... by houstonbofh · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Can you hear me now?"
    "Good!"
    "No, Bad! Very very bad... You have been so very bad!"

  3. Great picture. by Korey+Kaczor · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I think most slashdot users won't get it, because they're not used to being on top of things, if you know what I mean.

    1. Re:Great picture. by kirbysuperstar · · Score: 5, Funny

      I installed XP on top of 98 once. That's what you mean, right?

    2. Re:Great picture. by Korey+Kaczor · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'll explain it to you when you're older :'(

    3. Re:Great picture. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd tap that line if you know what I mean.

    4. Re:Great picture. by Telepathetic+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

      That's not all that has been splurted...

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  4. Shouldn't have turned it down by Big+Nothing · · Score: 5, Funny

    A few years ago I turned down a job offer as a Verizon Technician due to low pay - I didn't know there were these kinds of fringe benefits!

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  5. How you have this much phone sex? by Anomalyst · · Score: 5, Funny

    How in the world do you have this much phone sex?

    I'd tell ya, but then you'd die of exhaustion.

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    1. Re:How you have this much phone sex? by Firehed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Almost 94 continuous work days of phone sex. I feel terribly sorry for the janitor that cleans out his trash can.

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  6. 45000/5000 by SportyGeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    9 minute average....better than your average geek. ;)

  7. the real reason he won't tell you by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    is that the explanation would cut into valuable phone-sex time.

  8. People can get away with a lot by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to think a certain manager where I work had a bad stomach - he would often get up and say "back in 10 minutes". Evidently people in reception thought a certain secretary had a bad stomach too.

    One day security installed a security camera in a stock room because they noticed that things "kept being moved around". Soon all became apparent.

    All I can say is he may have lacked in duration but he made up in frequency!

    1. Re:People can get away with a lot by MadMidnightBomber · · Score: 5, Funny

      They were secretly tidying up the stock room? I don't understand.

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  9. Re:1/3 the year on sex lines? by Konster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I gather that he spent a lot of time jacking into those lines!

  10. This sentence should be taken out and shot by jimdread · · Score: 5, Funny

    He didnt compromise accounts, in the summary it says he tapped into land lines.

    He should have tapped in somewhere later in the system, so his calls wouldn't get charged to a customer. But hey, maybe he wanted to get caught.

    Also I wish to complain about this sentence from the summary. This sentence should be taken outside and shot:

    How in the world do you have this much phone sex, period, but especially at work, and not have anyone notice?

    It's a bad idea to start spelling out your punctuation. As you can see in the above sentence, the author has ended up with the word "period' surrounded by commas. "Period" is supposed to end a sentence. And it is supposed to be written as "." not spelled out with letters. Spelling out "period" in the middle of a sentence, and surrounding it with commas, is madness exclamation mark. See question mark? It's stupid. Please don't spell out the word "period", use the popular abbreviation: .

  11. Re:Why is this on idle? by interactive_civilian · · Score: 4, Funny

    You are right. Given the submitter's final question, it probably should have been an "Ask Slashdot". ;)

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  12. Where was the network? by ff1324 · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'd think with all those people in "the network" following him while he was doing this, he'd get stage fright or someone would have said "I can SEE you now!"

  13. New meaning to the term ... by bizitch · · Score: 3, Funny

    butt set ...

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  14. Re:uh by gnick · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hm. One hand holding the handset. One hand holding onto the telephone pole.

    Yep, you're doing it wrong.

    That's why it took him so long. Try substituting a dry-hump on a telephone pole for your hand-of-preference. It takes much longer.

    Um... At least that's what I've heard...

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