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by _3u10 617 days ago
Yeah obviously fake, who ever calls people. It's not the owner of the hotel, it's the person / company who setup their WiFi. Presumably on the wifi connection page there's a number to call for tech support.

http://lariat.net/

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The first sentence says:

"I just got a call from the owner of a hotel..."

The story is probably all true, even though it does have a bit of that "Elderly man set cruise control on at their RV then got up to make a sandwich" urban myth/chain letter vibe to it.

Yeah, they even went to the length of setting up a fake ISP with a FreeBSD nerdesque 1995 web design vibe too.

If you've ever done tech support you know this call is all too real.