Payphones

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FREE CALLING FROM PAY PHONES -- IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK ********************************************************** Date of file: August 27th, 1990 Current U.T.A. members: Los Angeles, CA - Impostor, Killer, Slam, Undertaker, Rice Burner Sacremento, CA - Ace Cleveland, OH - Disposable Hero Holland - Mr. Nobody West Germany - New Deal Denmark - Domination U.T.A. was founded on June 26th, 1989. For info on the group, call (904) 843-9269 (voice) and leave your handle & a number we can call you back at. And now.......... our file........ ______________________________________________________________________________ All of these files outlining how to make free calls from pay phones are a bit unrealistic. First of all, they go around telling you to start off by unscrewing the handset and start playing with the wires -- a bit noticable if you're at a pay-phone where there are any people around. Also, why should you trust a file that tells you to open up a phone and play with its wires? If you don't do everything right, you can wind up on the floor dead. Furthermore, this is 1990, not 1984 (when most of those stupid files were written), and a good deal of pay-phones are no longer manufactured or run by your local phone company. Such phones are built completely different from your standard Bell pay phone, so such methods explained in those other files wouldn't work anyway. Enough about those other lame files. This file is going to tell you SEVERAL WAYS how to make free calls from pay-phones. And none of these ways require tampering with the phone or its wires in any way. The only thing you'll be touching are the phone's touch tone buttons. WAY #1: GOOD OLD FASHIONED PHREAKING ------------------------------------- I hate to write sections for dumbshits like this, but many times the obvious is overlooked. *ALL* 950 numbers and 800 numbers should be able to be accessed from pay phones in your area if they can be accessed from your house. If you're at a lame pay-phone that won't let you dial them, then call the operator and have her dial them for you. Also remember that if you have any AT&T calling cards, don't hesitate to use them, since pay-phones are the only place where they are safe to be abused. WAY #2: "I LOST MY QUARTER, OPERATOR" -------------------------------------- Yes, I know, this is sort of lame too, but we're saving the better stuff for last. This is probably the most popular method of free calling done by little kids, but it'll work for people of any ages. Just dial "0" and say that the phone ate your quarter. You'll get a free call put through. It's a bit harder to do if you try and convince the operator that the phone ate your $2.50 that you put in to call cross-country. However, some operators are real stupid, and will either put the call through or offer to mail you the money you "lost". WAY #3: BILLING TO A VMB ------------------------- This method has become very popular lately. Set up your voice mail box to say, "ATTENTION, OPERATOR, ALL THIRD PARTY BILLINGS ARE ACCEPTED AT THIS NUMBER. I REPEAT, ALL THIRD PARTY BILLINGS ARE ACCEPTED ON THIS LINE FROM ANYONE." It may sound stupid, but it's worked for us 100% of the time. Make sure that you have a "billable" voice mail box. Many VMB's are "locked out" of billings by phone companies. What you have to do is either hack out a VMB that is billable (and direct dial) or find someone else that has one and bill to his. U.T.A. ran a VMB like that for the months of June and July of 1990 and people billed over $10,000 worth of pay-phone calls to that one box alone, so you know it works. Also, please note that just because AT&T has a VMB "locked out" doesn't mean that a lot of smaller, shittier companies have it locked out. A good company to abuse is ITI. You can access them by dialing 1-800-288-2880, and then when you hear the dial tone just wait and an operator will come on. They are so lame that they don't have the number you're calling FROM, but make sure to give them a number in a different state than where you're calling TO or they won't put the call through. Most VMB systems are NOT locked out of ITI. Watch out, though. ITI has a limit of $50 that can be billed to any one phone number, so you're better off doing it with AT&T if you can. (Note: Using ITI is also safe from your house. They have no form of ANI whatsoever.) WAY #4: BECOMING A SCHITZOPHRENIC ---------------------------------- Originally thought up by The Impostor, this way of billing has worked for years. First of all, you'll need to know the number of some "dead lines". Dead lines are phone numbers that answer before the first ring and just sit there. The only noise that they make is a "click" when they answer. It's very easy to find dead lines. They are all in the format of (213) XXX-1119 and (714) XXX-1119. Just keep trying prefixes in the (213) and (714) area code and you're bound to find them. Of the ones you find, take note of the ones that make the loudest clicks when they answer. Some good ones are (213) 519-1119, (213) 533-1119, and (213) 548-1119, among others. After you track down a good deal of dead lines (do this from your house beforehand), write them down or remember them. It's always good to have a few handy, since the phone companies do "lock out" the ones that get abused the hardest. After you have a good dead line in mind, and you're at a pay-phone needing to make a free call, dial 0+the number you want to call (as if you're calling collect). When the operator comes on, change your voice and say that you want to make a third party billing. She'll ask you what number you want to bill to, and you give them the number of the dead line. Then she'll ask you for a name, and just hand her any BS name like "John". *MOST OF THE TIME* the operator will "verify" the billing WHILE YOU ARE ON THE LINE! If she does this, listen VERY CAREFULLY for the "click" of the dead line. As soon as the dead line "clicks", change your voice back to normal and say "Hello?". The operator will think that you are the person that owns the phone number (dead line) that you're billing to and will ask you if it's "okay" to charge to that number. Of course, you say "yes". The operator will say "Thank you, your call is going through now" and just to make things more realistic, change your voice back to the fake one you put on at the beginning and say "Thank you". After that, YOU'RE THROUGH! It may sound complex at first, but once you get it down, it's REAL EASY and it works to call ANYWHERE, even INTERNATIONALLY! What you're doing here is being BOTH people, the person making the call and the person who accepts the charges for the call. Since a dead line just answers and sits there, it's a perfect target! Please note that a good deal of operator companies will NOT verfiy online. If this happens, then this kind of billing will NOT work. AT&T will verify online about 50% of the time. If one AT&T operator doesn't do it online, hang up and try again with another operator. In some areas, the operators almost always verify off-line, while in others they almost always do in on-line. To get an AT&T operator from a non-AT&T phone, dial 102880+the area code and number you want to dial. For example, if you want to call (213) 555-5555, you dial 102880-213-555-5555 (all at one time) to get the AT&T operator to handle the call. For all of you that live in the Pacific time zone, you have a gift. The Com Systems operators, which can be accessed by dialing 102660, verify online about 90-95% of the time. You can even use Com Systems for LOCAL calls by just dialing 102660 and then TELLING the operator the number you want to call. Please note that AT&T and most other Long Distance companies can ONLY be used to make LONG DISTANCE (usually 150+ mile away) calls. To make local or local-long- distance calls, you'll have to go through your local operator. The good news is that most local operators do verify online, but if at first you don't succeed, try and try again. WAY #5: BILLING TO THE PAY-PHONE NEXT TO YOU --------------------------------------------- As stupid as it may sound, billing to the pay-phone next to you is sometimes a very easy way to pull off free phone calls from pay-phones. First of all, you'll have to check if the phone next to you can receive incoming calls. If it doesn't say anything about "NO INCOMING CALLS" on the front, it probably does. Next, check that the pay-phone next to you has a phone number. If it doesn't, pick up that phone and dial 1-800-666-6258. After listening to about 30 seconds of BS, you'll hear the area code and number of that pay phone. Next, dial up our old friends ITI, at 1-800-288-2880. After the dial tone comes on, wait for the operator. As mentioned in Way #3, you have to give the number you're calling "from" and to, but make sure they are in DIFFERENT STATES. Then when ITI wants to know how you want to bill the call, say "Third-Party", and give them the number of the pay-phone that's right next to you. ITI will call to "verify" the charges, at which time you answer, change your voice, and of course accept the charges. Please note that ITI is not as stupid as they were earlier this year (although they are still VERY stupid), and they do have a good deal of pay-phones "locked out" from billing. But of course, a very large number of pay-phones still exist that AREN'T locked out of ITI, so have a ball while you still can. ______________________________________________________________________________ Well, there you have it. 5 ways to make free calls from pay-phones that are easy and that have been working for a very long time. If you didn't understand any portion of this file, go back and re-read it until you understand. And as with many things, some of these methods (like #4) take practice before you can get them right. But hey, it beats tampering with wires and electrocuting yourself, right? If you have any comments about this file, or want to join U.T.A. (we're still looking for a few good men), then call (904) 843-9269 and leave a message. If by the time you are reading this the (904) number doesn't work, then kick yourself in the ass for not getting this file sooner. The box shouldn't die anytime soon, though, since it's been around since November '89. Give the U.T.A. board OUTER SANCTUARY a call at (216) 943-3273. Sysop is Disposable Hero...a U.T.A. member and a cool guy. (C) 1990 U.T.A. Enterprises If you modify this without our permission and distribute it, we'll kick yer ass! (fuck this legal bullshit)

****How to get MONEY from payfones**** Written by Charles Manson...Special Thanx to RIPCO for their fine G-Files! Call (312)528-5020!!.......RIPCO **************************************** Getting money from a payphone requires only a few simple things. 1. Intellegence-You have to know when to do this kind of thing. If you do it in broad daylight, with a bunch of people watching you, you'll have the TELCO on you so fast you won't know what happened. 2. You must select a phone that you can have access to its wires. (Look for a plastic shroud running down the wall, or the junction box outside!) On a normal phoneline, only two wires are used:Ring & Tip. (Red & Green). The payphone uses the red and green for its telephone operations, but it also uses the yellow & black to control the coin mech. relays & solenoids. Find a section of the wire where a cut will not be easily seen. Strip off the insulation of the cord, exposing the four wires. Now, get out the all purpose wire cutters (Or finger nail clippers if you like) and cut the black & yellow wires. Now just sit back and let people use the phone! What Happens? Well, when you put money into a payphone, it stays in the coin mechanism until 1 of 2 things happunX 1. You connect your call, talk, and Hangup. After you hangup, your money goes to the collection box. (The only way to get the money then is to rip the box out!) 2. You call a number that doesn't answer, or get busy signal, or something like that, and then hangup. When you hangup, the money goes from the coin mech. to the coin return. That is the key! After the Black & Yellow wires have been cut, the money goes neither to the coin box or coin return! It just sits there! All you have to do is come back at like 3:00 in the morning, re-connect the black & Yellow wires, pick up the handset & put it back down. **********JACKPOT********** All the money that was put in that phone that day comes shooting out the coin return. (Just like in the movies!) It is the AWESOMEIST FEELING! I have collected upto $30 a day doing this to phones all around town! Dangers: The people that put money in and don't get connected or get a busy signal and hang up do NOT get their money back. Usually they will call the operator who inturn calls the Repair Dept. (That is why it is important to cut the wire where it can not be seen. But if you want to do this as a one time thing.........GO FOR IT! Oh yes, alternate phones every other couplple of days or so. Stay on your toes and watch out for white Vans!!!!) If someone sees you taking money out of the coin return (Getting $15 in change out of a phone is not common!) Just say you hung up the phone and all this mony started pouring out! (It doesn't hurt to give them a little of it either!) After a month or two the Phone Co. catches on, so I do not reccomend using one phone for over two weeks. GOOD LUCK!! Oh, bye the way.........I forgot to mention this file is for information only (SNICKER SNICKER)...........Good Luck!!!!!! **************************************** Brought to you by.... **//////RIPCO//////** (312)528-5020 Written by................Charles Manson ****************************************

How to "steal" local calls from most Payphones Now to make free local calls, you need a finishing nail. We highly recommend "6D E.G. FINISH C/H, 2 INCH" nails. These are about 3/32 of an inch in diameter and 2 inches long (of course). You also need a large size paper clip. By large we mean they are about 2 inches long (FOLDED). Then you unfold the paper clip. Unfold it by taking each piece and moving it out 90 degrees. When it is done it should look somewhat like this: /----------\ : : : : : : : : \----- Now, on to the neat stuff. What you do, instead of unscrewing the glued-on mouthpiece, is insert the nail into the center hole of the mouthpiece (where you talk) and push it in with pressure or just hammer it in by hitting the nail on something. Just DON'T KILL THE MOUTHPIECE! You could damage it if you insert the nail too far or at some weird angle. If this happens then the other party won't be able to hear what you say. You now have a hole in the mouthpiece in which you can easily insert the paper clip. So, take out the nail and put in the paper clip. Then take the other end of the paper clip and shove it under the rubber cord protector at the bottom of the handset (you know, the blue guy...). This should end up looking remotely like...like this: /----------\ Mouthpiece : : / Paper clip --> : : / : /---:---\ : : : :------------> ====================\---))): : To earpiece -> ^ ^ \--------------------> : : : : Cord Blue guy (The paper clip is shoved under the blue guy to make a good connection between the inside of the mouthpiece and the metal cord.) Now, dial the number of a local number you wish to call, sayyyy, MCI. If everything goes okay, it should ring and not answer with the "The Call You Have Made Requires a 20 Cent Deposit" recording. After the other end answers the phone, remove the paper clip. It's all that simple, see? There are a couple problems, however. One is, as we mentioned earlier, the mouthpiece not working after you punch it. If this happens to you, simply move on to the next payphone. The one you are now on is lost. Another problem is that the touch tones won't work when the paper clip is in the mouthpiece. There are two ways around this.. A> Dial the first 6 numbers. This should be done without the paper clip making the connection, i.e., one side should not be connected. Then connect the paper clip, hold down the last digit, and slowly pull the paper clip out at the mouthpiece's end. B> Don't use the paper clip at all. Keep the nail in after you punch it. Dial the first 6 digits. Before dialing the last digit, touch the nail head to the plate on the main body of the phone, the money safe thingy..then press the last number. The reason that this method is sometimes called clear boxing is because there is another type of phone which lets you actually make the call and listen to them say "Hello, hello?" but it cuts off the mouthpiece so they can't hear you. The Clear Box is used on that to amplify your voice signals and send it through the earpiece. If you see how this is even slightly similar to the method we just described up there, kindly explain it to US!! Cause WE don't GET IT! Anyways, this DOES work on almost all single slot, Dial Tone First payphones (Pacific Bell for sure). We do it all the time. This is the least, WE STRESS *LEAST*, risky form of Phreaking. And remember. There are other Phreaks like you out there who have read this article and punch payphones, so look before you punch, and save time.