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Oper: TMC, may I help you?
SR: Yes, Kevin Griffo, please.
Oper: His line is busy now, can he call you back?
SR: Well, this is urgent, may I hold?
Oper: Certainly, I'll let him know you're holding.
KG: Hello, this is Kevin.
SR: Mr. Griffo I've been referred to you by one of your Charleston employees,
Pauline Frazier. She felt I should tell you what I told her yesterday
about one of your now former employees, I think, Scott Higgonbotham.
KG: Yeah, we let him go just last week. What about him?
SR: My company feels Scott is running an illegal BBS and has for sometime been
allowing access codes to be posted. Codes for your company's toll
switches as well as ours and other's are being entered on his system as
well as computer system logins and passwords.
KG: Well, I'm not surprised. I have been to Scott's home to see the bulletin
board. I knew codes were being posted, but I thought he was taking care
of reporting them.
SR: May I ask why you let him go?
KG: Certainly, Scott just wasn't solving our problems. In fact, some of our
people have thought he was somewhat to blame for many of them. Even
though, at first, he appeared to be the answer. He was able to identify
several computer hackers for us.
SR: So, he did bust some hackers? Has he done so recently? I think a young
man using the name Shawn on the bulletin boards was recently identified by
your company.
KG: No, he hasn't gotten anyone recently that I'm aware of, but he could have
turned them over to one of the local franchises. You see TMC is a
franchise operation. We try to help the franchises, but many do their
own thing. We wouldn't necessarily know about all that goes on.
SR: I'm sorry to hear you had this trouble. Perhaps, my company could
be of assistance. We do work of a similar nature.
KG: I'd certainly be interested in any help you could give. Can you put
together a written proposal?
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I also had an interesting conversation with Larry Algard of Pacific Northwest
Bell. He confirmed that he had met Scott Higgonbotham at the Miami CFCA
conference last January. He also mentioned that Scott had told him about his
"sting" bulletin board, Pirate-80 in West Virginia.
For those who are interested:
TMC (Charleston Office).......................304-345-7275
Pauline Frazier, Office Manager (TMC).........See above
Jeff Namey, Accounts Receivable (TMC).........304-744-6555
TMC (Miami Office)............................305-371-3544
TMC (Tidewater)...............................804-625-1110
Larry Algard (Pacific North West Bell)........503-242-8862
Pacific North West Bell (Employee Directory)..800-426-7039
Or write to; TMC
405 Capitol St.
Parlor Suite
Charleston, West Virginia 25301
All the thoughts in []'s and other information are the insane ramblings of
Sally Ride:::Space Cadet and Knight Lightning, you tell me, are we spaced out
or what?! The TMC employee interviews were by Sally Ride:::Space Cadet with
me doing the background information.
It was at this point in time that we decided to have a talk with Scan Man
directly and give him a chance to clear his name and reputation.
Unfortunately, Scan Man was very uncooperative and constantly avoided answering
the questions I asked him. He also added that everything said in the
interviews were lies. He claims that Kevin Griffo has never been to his house,
he doesn't know Ben Graves, and Pauline Frazier hated him because she knew he
was a hacker.
He then went on to imply that Sally Ride:::Space Cadet was actually an employee
of some communications carrier himself because of the terminology he used in
some of his posts on P-80.
Scan Man claimed that he has been telling people that he worked for TMC for
quite some time and he only needed the codes from Shawn because he was going to
be in Miami later that week. In other words, Shawn's near bust and his asking
for TMC codes may have been a simple coincidence.
He claims to have done system analysis for TMC, but also admitted to securing
some of their computer systems, which isn't a crime.
As for his being at the Miami CFCA conference, I will assume that he was
infiltrating the con and was spotted as being a hacker. In order to gain the
respect and confidence of the security officials, he told them that his
bulletin board was a sting. Now, that story completely is believable with the
exception of how he arrived, a plane trip paid for by TMC.