Phone scams

.. you just CAN'T do them.

Tom Taylor at M Street Journal (www.mstreet.net) reports "You can’t prank a co-worker on the phone."

That’s the expensive lesson taught by UnivisionRadio’s “Raul Brindisi and Pepito” morning show,which is syndicated to about a half-dozen Univision stations in California, Arizona and Texas.

Back inOctober 2002 Brindisi placed a call to an account executive at what was then Hispanic Broadcasting —without telling him the call was being broadcast.

The sales rep complained — and the FCC didn’t buy Univision’s explanation that any employee of a radio station should expect to have their phone calls broadcast. Especially since the call was made to a personal cell phone, not an office number.

The price tag? A $28,000 fine for multiple Univision stations.