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Mar 2002


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Dead, famous show up on her caller ID
 by Associated Press

LE ROY, N.Y. - Nancy Crocker gets calls from famous dead people. Or at least that's what her caller ID box at her western New York home has been telling her.

Among the names listed by her caller ID last week were Charles Dickens, Ben Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Not to mention Herbert Hoover, Edgar Allan Poe and Albert Einstein.

The names of some living famous folks are also popping up, like Ronald Reagan.

The Le Roy woman called her telephone company about the problem. Officials at Frontier told her that none of the phone numbers listed on the caller ID was real.

A customer service representative told her the names are either old or made up as part of a testing system. The phone company thinks that a power failure or old equipment could have caused the famous names to show up on Crocker's caller ID box.