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³ ÚÄÄÙ ³ ÚÄÄ ³ Phone Losers of America Issue #033 ÚÄÄÙ ³ ÚÄÄ ³ ³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄTABLE OF CONTENTS:ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³ ³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³1. Introduction - RBCP ³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³2. Running The Neighborhood - Monster Magnet³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³3. The Official Phreaker's Manual ³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³4. Classified Ads ³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³5. How To Make A Beige Box ³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³6. Roy, New Mexico Telephone Directory ³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³7. Interviews With Roy Residents ³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³8. Phone Loser Headline News ³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³9. Application to Carry PLA (Ya-hoo!) ³\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\³
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³/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/³
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³ Completed On July 4, 1995 ³
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À033ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ033Ù
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If you haven't already, you should download the PLA95SUM.ZIP whichÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄп
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is the first edition of the Phone Losers Fone Directory. It's got a³ ÄÄÄÄ ³
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lot of phone numbers in it that you'll never have any kind of need³ ÄÄÄÄ ³
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for! In this issue you're going to learn how to run your neighbor-³ 1 2 3 ³
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hood as well as the history of phone phreaking and tips on how to be³ 4 5 6 ³
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a real honest-to-god phone phreak! I've also included a classified³ 7 8 9 ³
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ads section where you can advertise anything you want. If you'd like³ * 0 # ³
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to place an ad in the PLA classifieds, e-mail me today. ³Motorola³
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I received a call from the Sprint Billing Office the other day concerning my
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overdue $300 phone bill. I learned through my expert social engineering
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techniques that I can't use Monopoly money to pay for a Sprint phone bill but
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it is alright to use someone else's stolen credit card to pay for it as long
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as I have the actual name on the card. I told him to accomplish this I would
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have to go out and mug a yuppie and steal his wallet and his only reply was
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that "That wouldn't be good." Never once did he tell me not to do it so I was
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thinking that maybe I could mug a guy and if I get caught I could blame it all
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on the Sprint operator. I told the guy that if all goes well with the mugging
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I should have the check in the mail by Friday.
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A big hello goes out to the "PLA Troy Division", the little 8th graders in
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Troy, Illinois who've taken it upon themselves to print out all the PLA issues
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and sell them to the kids who aren't a part of the amazing information super-
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highway. Another hell goes out to Moondog, also of Troy who gave me their names
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and phone numbers. (Thank you!) And last but not least, Mr. Joseph who changed
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his number, made it unlisted and password protected the account just so we'd
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leave him alone. His new unlisted & protected number is 618-797-1156. His wife
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actually started calling and saying, "Ha ha" after they changed it and we
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couldn't call. Then she said, "What does PLA stand for anyway? Penis Lickers
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Anonymous?? HAHAHAHAHA!" All this from a thirty year old welfare mom. Sheesh!
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Running The Neighborhood - Monster Magnet:
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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After reading this you will probably think that I am a sick and deranged man
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who enjoys to be.....anti-social.....at best. Anyways...I'm going to tell you
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how to run your neiborhood. Yes, yes, yes...I'm sure all of you have seen
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text files on the basic skills of anarchy, but here's another, so pay attention
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and sit up straight!
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One night, when you have nothing better to do, just grab an old rag that just
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happens to be soaking in motor oil and walk down your street to the local
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gossip's house....you know....the one who told your parents about when your
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girlfriend climbed through your windows and then told them all the things that
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you and her shouted out in that evening of pleasure. Take that rag and jam it
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up the tailpipe of the car. After a few monthes, she'll either have bad lungs
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or worse. While you're there, just grab a couple of the bushes and other plant
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life that you can rip out of the ground, trees included if you are one of those
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buff people, and throw them on the roof. It will make quite an impression on
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the night before the neighborhood contest for the prettiest lawn and land-
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scaping.
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Of course, it would be silly to just stop there...just look around for some
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nice roadkill, there's always a possum here and there, and stuff it in the mail
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box. If you're really clever, you would have a sticker handy that said
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'Special Delivery From Our Oven To Your Home' and have a little picture of Mrs.
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Baird or something. Before you leave, make sure you have a nice can of
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gasoline and pour a big puddle on the porch and make a trail to the side of
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the house. Next, go ring the doorbell and run to the side of the house and
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light the gasoline from there. When she opens the door she will see a huge
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trail of flame turning the corner and running up the front walk right for her.
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Usually after she slams the door you can here loud cussing followed by intense
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prayer. It's a real eye-openner.
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In case there is no neighborhood gossip, you don't have a girlfriend to sneak
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in, or if you're just not one of those religious types, just grab some threaded
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pipes, some caps for them, some baby food jars, rocks, baking soda, vinegar,
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gasoline, and of course matches, and head down to your local church. One of
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the first things to do is to grab a monk outfit and stand by the cross. It's
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good to have little contact explosives with you. I don't quite remember the
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recipe, but it involves a cookie sheet, petroleum jelly, black powder, and one
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or two other things but they are really cool to toss around.
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Hopefully this church has statues of Jesus, his mom and dad, and those three
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wise guys that you can stand with so you don't look too out of place. As
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little kids or old ladies walk by toss one of those contact explosives at their
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feet. Make sure it's a small piece because a good sized one will knock out a
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brick wall. After everyone is inside, grab a threaded pipe and put some rocks
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in it. Next fill the baby food jar with vinegar, then fill the pipe with
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baking soda, but not too much. Then put the caps on the pipe REAL tight. Do
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this a couple of times to get a good supply. Next, pour gasoline on the cross
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and light it. Scream about how Alla will forgive their evil ways and toss the
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pipes into the parking lot. Inside the pipe, the baby food jars should break
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and the baking soda and vinegar will mix, bubble heavily, and the pipe should
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explode sending pieces of metal, rocks, glass, and liquid in all directions.
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Now, since you've been seen you should uproot a bush and hold it behind you and
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run away so they will think you are a terrorist from Iraq and no one will think
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it was you.
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Well, I hope that gave you all good ideas on how to spend your Saturday nights!
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Just don't forget to carve PLA in one of the big trees around what ever you...
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visit....just so everyone knows that the Phone Losers are out to get them.
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Below the initials you might want to put a note saying that all bills will be
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covered by Chris Tomkinson and leave his address.
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The Official Phreakerz Manual - by RedRoyChiliPepper:
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Are you ready to be in the 3733178 Phreaking & Hacking scene?? Well, for all of
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you beginers, I've compiled all of the best text files along with my own
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extensive know-how to teach you, the novice, how to become one of the big guys
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in the scene.
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History:
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Every real phreaker in the scene knows his history so here's a brief summary of
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how it all began and how it's progressed through the years... In the begining,
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there was one phreak who started it all. His name was Bob and every phreak in
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the world could eventually trace their origins to Bob. Bob, born in Tribune,
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Kansas, was a homeless man who was rummaging through a dumpster by the phone
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company building looking for the night's supper and some alluminum cans (Bob
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was an earth-conscience wino) when he came across a large blue manual labeled
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"Southwestern Bell's Blue Manual of Phone Company Tones E911 That Ordinary
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Citizens Should Never Never Never Ever Never Have Access To!" Gee, thought Bob,
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I could use this very large manual tonight to cover myself up with while I
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sleep on the park bench.
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That night, while having a little trouble sleeping (Bob had a bad case of
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insomnia), Bob began to read this manual and began to think about all he'd
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found and the next morning, sitting on the City Hall's steps used a Campbell's
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soup can, some string and various other electronic parts and assembled the
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world's first "Blue Box." With it, Bob was able to call anywhere on the block
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by using his blue box to mimick the phone company's own tones. Later that winter
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he met a man named John Draper who was in town for an anti-smoking conference
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who discovered that with a simple modification, Bob's blue box could call any-
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where in the world.
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A year later, in 1978, a lot had happened to John Draper. One morning he was
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looking around in the kitchen for his Frosted Flakes and was pissed when he
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found out that his room mate had eaten them all so he had to settle for Froot
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Loops instead. He ate four bowls so he could finally get to the bottom of the
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box to get the toy surprise, which was a plastic dildo for kids! After playing
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with the dildo for several hours, he found that when he blew into the end of
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it, he would hear a sound very close to 26,000,000 Htz, the same tone that his
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blue box made to control the phone company! John immediately adopted the handle
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Capt'n Crunch to throw the feds off and set out to Kroger's to buy out their
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entire suppy of Froot Loops.
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Eventually, word spread about the blue boxes and many other boxes began to
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be built by "phone phreaks", each one serving a different form of phone fraud.
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One of the more well known phreaks was a man named Joe Engressia, a deaf man
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who lived in Tennessee. He was eventually able to cause the pay phones in his
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college to give out free calls to the other students by whistling country songs
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into the phones. He found that when he whistled anything by Wayne Newton he
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could get a free call but since he was deaf, he had to get a friend to talk on
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the phone to whoever he reached for him. Joe was finally busted in the early
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eighties and sentenced to death in the state of Florida.
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In 1983 the controversial movie, War Games came out and gave birth to a new
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generation of computer hackers and phone phreaks. Starring Tom Cruise as a
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teen-age hacker, this movie told the story of a kid who came close to starting
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Operation Dessert Storm when he used his computer to call up the library and
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erase his outstanding overdue book late fees.
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In 1986, Erik Bloodaxe and Gail Thatckery started a publication called Phrack,
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which was run out of Erik's garage on his Timex Sinclair 1000 computer. Phrack
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continued to be the nation's leading hacker magazine until an investigator for
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Pacific Bell ate beans for supper and bought a 14.4 Hayes Accura modem and
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Phrack was shut down until the controversial E*32 article was found to have
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actually been written by Steve Jackson who ran a super-underground bbs called
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P-80 Systems.
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Today the scene is still alive and kicking. Hacker Kevin Mitnick was located
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and arrested for writing anarchy files detailing how to crash airplanes into
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the White House and how to make Drain-o bombs and Wal-Mart continues to give
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full money-back refunds to people who give them modem casings full of crushed
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Pepsi cans. No one has heard from Bob for over twenty years now.
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Phone Company Acronyms:
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Now that you know all the history of the underground, it's time for the
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technical stuff. Below I'm going to list a few of the acronyms that the phone
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companies use.
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COSMOS - Computer Operations Mattel Or Something, I think. This is the system
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that the phone company uses to print out their paychecks
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LAC - Local Area Con. The phone company uses this term to inform people that
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there's a hacker conference in town.
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RBOC - Regional Big Office Center. This is where the big offices are located
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that the employees work in.
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Of course there's a whole lot more but I think that I'm too eleet to tell you.
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It's not really because I don't know myself. I know everything.
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Phone Phreak Conference Bridges:
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One of the phone phreaks major sources of trading information is the phone
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companys' teleconferencing services. When you hook into one of these systems,
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you can talk with over two people at once! The phone company's technical term
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for this is three-way calling and the underground is currently working on ways
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to get this service so they can use it on their home phones. In the old days
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it was really easy to do with a Kitty Litter Box and everything but with the
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advancing technology and the 5EFF switching system, it's a little bit more
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complicated.
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K0dez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:
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Getting a hold of credit card and calling card numbers is a phreak's most
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important task. Every real phreak in the country has set up their home
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answering machine as a "code line" and then created an 800 number to their
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house and advertised the number on bbs systems and local newspapers for people
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to call. When you reach a code line, the owner will read off a bunch of good
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codes and then at the tone you leave your own. NEVER set up a code line on a
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VMB system you've infiltrated!! YOU WILL BE CAUGHT!! Always set up the code
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lines from your home phone. This is the proven safe way.
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Pay Phone Tricks:
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We all know that using your home phone is the best place to use stolen calling
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cards and credit cards from, but sometimes it's necessary to use a pay phone,
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usually because a phreak is locked out of the house and didn't have his lock-
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picking anarchy filez on him. To get free calls on a pay phone, all you need is
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a "black box". This box mimicks the sound of slugs going into a pay phone and
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gives you free calls. If a phone company employee approaches you while you're
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black boxing, always smile and be friendly and show him your black box. It
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impresses the hell out of them when they learn about these things and most
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likely you'll make a new friend.
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Another little known trick is all of the Bell pay phones secret commands. Go
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to any Bell or GTE phone, pick up the handset, deposit a quarter and dial
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"24998-24001-29190904675971-87-429087" and just watch what happens! All of the
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money came out of the phone, right?? That's right, since Knight Lightning
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published that pay phone key schematic in his CoTNo magazine, the phone
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company stopped using keys altogether and use this access codes on all of the
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phones across the United States. (Of course, this only works on Bell and GTE
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phones.)
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Well, that's gonna be it for this issue. Perhaps in the next issue I'll speak
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a bit more on the new 5EFF switching systems, cellular hacking, putting your
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home fone in test mode and field phreaking.
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ÚÄÄÄÛÛÛÄÄÄÄÄÛÛÄÄÜÛÄÛÛÄÄÄÄßÛÛÄÄÄßÛÛÄÄÛÛÄÄÄÛÛÄÄÄÄÄÛÛÄÄÛÛßßßßÄÛÛÄÄÄÛÛÄÄÄÄßÛÛÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ ßÛÜÜß ÜÛÛÜ ßÛÜßßÜ ßÜÜÛß ßÜÜÛß ÜÛÛÜ ÜÛÛÜ ÜÛÛÜ ßÛÜÜß ßÛÜßÛÛÜ ßÜÜÛß ³
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³FOR SALE: One (1) GTE Public Pay Phone³WANTED: Any kind of fone answering³
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³ripped off the wall from Ed's Bar & Grill³machine that doesn't have remote³
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³in Waverly, Iowa. In good condition aside³access capabilities. I really need³
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³from a few scrapes and some grafitti here³an answering machine cheap but I³
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³and there. Features touch tone dialing,³cant have RedBoxChiliPepper always³
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³volume control, rigged for free calls,³listening to all my messages. Call³
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³filled with $200 in quarters that I can't³Chris Tomkinson at 618-258-0357.³
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³manage to get out. Weighs about 900 lbs &ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´
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³I'm asking $2.00 for it. Call me at 801-³FOR SALE: One kidnapped AT&T oper-³
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³855-3326 if you're interested. WARNING:³ator. Old, wrinkly, wears glasses³
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³This product is equiped with a GTE Homing³and an operator headset all the³
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³Device (tm). If you buy this phone and³time. Answers to the name of Kay.³
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³live in GTE territory, they will drive a³Abducted earlier this week from³
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³bunch of trucks around your neighborhood³the AT&T building in Portland, OR³
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³and FIND you! Any buyers? ³on Stark Street. Not really a very³
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ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÁÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿friendly type but she³
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³FOR SALE, GODDAMMIT: One cocksucking cordless phone.³likes to answer the³
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³$30 obo or 15 packs of Marlboros. No longer needed³phone.Anyone interested³
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³because those dickweeds keep listening in on my³please send a self³
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³fucking conversation but just let 'em fucking try it³addressed, stamped en-³
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³again. I got the *32 all rigged with the phone³velope to 4361 Vine St.³
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³company and I'll find the little bastards. I know³Cincinnati, Ohio, 69842³
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³who you are, Roy. Call Dean Allsman, 618-xxx-xxxx³or call 1-800-328-2120.³
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³ GARAGE SALE: 1021 Broadway, Highland, IL³Would you like to leave an ad in ³
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³ Sat & Sun, rain or shine. Clothes, toys,³the PLA Classified section? If so,³
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³ Wangs, Mainframes, red boxes, blue boxes³e-mail the classified department ³
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³ lineman's handsets, nick knacks,ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙat rbcp@big12.metrobbs.com or you ³
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³ old crossbar switches, 500 meg³can phone in your ad at 512-370-4680.Rates³
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³ hard drives, phone company tech³are 15-20 words, free and 21 words or more³
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³ manuals, electronics, lot more!³will cost your soul. Just check "bill me."³
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How To Build A Beige Box - by Calimar Rasputan (Caffeine Boy):
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First, get a phone with a cord. Cut the jack off. Put roach clips on the wires.
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Find a box. Use it.
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Roy, New Mexico Telephone Directory:
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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PLA is proud to be the first to bring you the Roy, New Mexico telephone
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directory. Below is the number of every listed person in Roy's September 1995
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telephone book. Also included are a few phone conversation transcripts from
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when I called up residents of Roy and interviewed them. None of them are made
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up, these are actual conversations that I transcribed from tapes. Residents of
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Roy are awaiting your calls!
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Abernathy, E H................485-2417 Alexander, Bernice............485-2249
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Ambulance..........................911 Anderson, Dorothy G...........485-2489
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Anderson, Grady O.............485-2573 Anderson, Hob.................485-2691
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Anderson, Richard Ray.........485-2504 Andreas, Ebell................485-2661
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Archuleta, Henry..............485-2291 Archuleta, Tony...............485-2284
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Atkins, Joe A.................374-8648
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<<B>>
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Baca, Henry Jr................485-2231 Baca, John M..................485-2605
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Bada, Jerry...................485-2430 Bada, Ruth....................485-2524
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Baker, Darrel.................485-2476 Barbeau, Roland G.............485-2411
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Baum, James...................485-2538 Beard, Earl B.................485-2450
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Beard, Elmer..................485-2460 Beard, Floyd W................485-2465
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Belvin, Jimmy.................485-2440 Bencomo, Ben..................485-2556
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Bennett, S A..................485-2494 Berner, Wallance D............485-2485
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Blasi, John...................485-2232 Blosser A C...................485-2530
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Boulware, Richard.............485-2508 Bowman, Willis W Jr...........485-2514
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Brock, Stephen L..............485-2554 Brockman, Gene................485-2420
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Brown, Trigg..................485-2483 Burton, Neil..................485-2674
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<<C>>
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Cactus Flower Gifts...........485-2626 Cates, John C.................485-2218
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Chisum, Curtis Carl...........485-2688 Clavel, C J Jody..............485-2543
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Clavel, Joe...................485-2591 Couch, Ottie..................485-2226
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Craig, Jim....................485-2660
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<<D>>
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DeHerrera, Ernest.............485-2617 DeLano, Mike..................485-2449
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Deschamps, Emilio.............485-2428 Deschamps, Gilbert............485-2240
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Dikeman, Gerald...............485-2250 Du La, Bruce..................485-2551
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<<E>>
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Eastern Plains Title 111......485-2639 Ebell, Anthony Sister.........485-2676
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Ebell, Anothony & Terry.......485-2252 Ebell, Bonifacio..............485-2265
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Ebell, Bonifacio S............485-2667 Ebell, Hilario................485-2241
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Ebell, Horacio J..............485-2260 Esquibel, Annette.............485-2436
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Esquibel, Antonio & Felicia...485-2408 Esquibel, Cassie..............485-2643
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Esquibel, Charlie.............485-2243 Esquibel, Johnny E............485-2640
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Esquibel, Lencho..............485-2293 Esquibel, Secundino...........485-2623
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<<F>>
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Farley Ranch-Flemming Camp....485-2515 Farley Ranch..................485-2575
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Farley School.................485-2606 Fire Department....................911
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First Baptist Church..........485-2679 Floershiem, Allen.............485-2211
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Floershiem Printing...........485-2212 Floershiem Printing Line 2....485-2213
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Fluhman, Ernest Warner Jr.....485-2582 Fluhman, Lee & Sherrita.......485-2586
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<<G>>
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Gallagher, J E................485-2224 Garcia, Jimmy.................485-2431
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Garrison, Harrell.............485-2568 Gift, Fred....................485-2440
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Gillespie, G P................485-2517 Gilstrap, Phil................485-2233
|
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Glaze, James & Ross...........485-2525 Gonzales, Eloy T..............485-2650
|
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Gonzales, Maria J.............485-2246 Gutierrez, Ernest.............485-2665
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<<H>>
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Harding County Fire District..485-2637 Harding Magistrate Court......485-2549
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Hartley, Pat..................485-2534 Hartley, Pat (Mobile Unit??)..763-5575
|
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Hazen, Billy..................485-2696 Hazen, Richard................485-2618
|
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Heimann, Frank................485-2507 Hephner, Anthony & Cathie.....485-2269
|
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Herron, L Allen...............485-2636 Hicks, Bob....................485-2544
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Holy Family St. Joseph Parish.485-2579 Hooper, Edith.................485-2592
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<<I>>
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Ivey, A E.....................485-2276 Ivey, Era Allice Mrs..........485-2562
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<<J>>
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Jeffers, Viola................485-2433 Johnson, Carroll Mrs..........485-2227
|
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Judy, Rod.....................485-2649
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<<K>>
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KGM Electric..................485-2217 Kidd, Champ...................485-2296
|
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Kirkland, J H.................485-2295 Kitzing, August...............485-2285
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<<L>>
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Latham, John..................485-2536 Laumbach, Alfred C............485-2457
|
|
Laumbach, Pedro J.............485-2678 Laumbach, Rick................485-2253
|
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Ledoux, Pat...................485-2621 Linder, Dave W................485-2427
|
|
Lovato, Joe M.................485-2692 Lovato, Manuel................485-2201
|
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Lovato, Tody..................485-2629 Lucero, G A...................485-2414
|
|
Lujan.........................485-2266 Lujan, Louis A................485-2468
|
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<<M>>
|
|
Mackey, Monroe................485-2296 Madole, Wyman.................485-2237
|
|
Maestas, Frank................485-2689 Mahoney J H Construction......485-2244
|
|
Mahoney, John A...............485-2572 Manly, Ray E..................485-2279
|
|
Martha's Cafe.................485-2661 Martin W F....................485-2219
|
|
Martinez, Berthn..............485-2466 Martinez, Frances G...........485-2215
|
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Martinez, George & Rachel.....485-2217 Martinez, Nick Jr.............485-2255
|
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Masonic Lodge.................485-2546 Mayer, Doc & Corolyn..........485-2462
|
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McDonald, Harrison............485-2287 McGlaun, Casey................485-2687
|
|
Menapace, M E.................485-2259 Mesa Hotel....................485-2661
|
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Methodist Parsonage...........485-2594 Mike's Conoco.................485-2267
|
|
Milson D S....................485-2298 Mitchell, Chet................485-2547
|
|
Mitchell, Ed..................485-2589 Montoya, Florencio J..........485-2223
|
|
Montoya, Michael..............485-2270 Moore, Jack...................485-2685
|
|
Motor Vehicle Division........485-2607
|
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<<N>>
|
|
New Mexico Highway & Trans....485-2646 New Mexico Highway Department.485-2697
|
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New Mexico Park Service.......485-2424 New Mexico State Land Office..485-2627
|
|
Nucci, Eugene J...............485-2662
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<<O>>
|
|
Olivas, Julian & Helen........485-2636
|
|
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|
<<P>>
|
|
Payton, Leon..................485-2297 Pendleton, D C................485-2248
|
|
Pendleton Oil & Gas Company...485-2262 Pendleton Station.............485-2542
|
|
Pendleton, Stephen R..........485-2630 Perea, Richard................485-2288
|
|
Pete's Boots & Saddles........485-2220 Police Department.............485-2204
|
|
Popejoy Construction Co Inc...485-2454 Porterfield, Harold...........485-2202
|
|
Powell, Mary..................485-2432 Prichard, Donald..............485-2595
|
|
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<<Q>>
|
|
Quintana, Lucille.............485-2670 Quintana, Pete................485-2271
|
|
Quintana, Roy T...............485-2238
|
|
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<<R>>
|
|
Rael, M.......................485-2577 Raska, Wayne..................485-2624
|
|
Ray, Donna....................485-2545 Ray, George H 3rd.............485-2559
|
|
Ray Ranch.....................485-2559 Ray, Wendy & Rocky............485-2619
|
|
Redlich, Frank................485-2490 Reese Ranch Store.............485-2426
|
|
Rice..........................485-2687 Rigoni, Brenda F..............485-2570
|
|
Rigoni, James.................485-2634 Rigoni, Roy...................485-2283
|
|
Romero, Edward................485-2653 Romero, Santos & Faye.........485-2564
|
|
Roy Feed Store................485-2626 Roy Public School.............485-2521
|
|
Roy Public School (Suptndt)...485-2242 Roy Sundries..................485-9939
|
|
Roy Village Clerk.............485-2541 Roy Matenance.................485-2435
|
|
Roy Marshall (Police Dept)....485-2204 Water Superintendent..........485-2435
|
|
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|
<<S>>
|
|
S O Ranch.....................485-2688 S O Ranch Camp................485-2537
|
|
Sanchez, Maria Martinez.......485-2503 Sande, Dean...................485-2655
|
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Sandoval, Alfred Jr...........485-2616 Saunders, Juanita & Gary......485-2406
|
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Scott, Allen..................485-2657 Scott, Carl...................485-2628
|
|
Scott, Keith..................485-2652 Scott's Stop 'N' Shop.........485-2299
|
|
Self, Dolty & Betty...........485-2275 Self, Roy H...................485-2236
|
|
Shaw, Albert..................485-2264 Shurbet, L V..................485-2239
|
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Skies, Cliff..................485-2575 Skiles, Cliff.................485-2515
|
|
Smith, Bryce..................485-2520 Smith, Thomas.................485-2598
|
|
Springer Electric Cooperative.485-2253 Sussman, Norman & Gabriele....485-2222
|
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<<T>>
|
|
Tafoya, Delfinia..............485-2593 Tafoya, Steve.................485-2695
|
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Taylor, Bennie................485-2282 Telles, M A...................485-2588
|
|
The Bank of New Mexico........485-2281 Trampe, Agnes.................485-2221
|
|
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|
<<U>>
|
|
Ulibarri, Larry...............485-0334 Soil Conservation Service.....485-2294
|
|
U.S. Post Office..............485-2648 Unruh, Herman & Helen.........485-2592
|
|
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|
<<V>>
|
|
Velasquez, John...............485-2234
|
|
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|
<<W>>
|
|
Wadlington, Virginia..........485-2555 Wallis, Francis...............485-6101
|
|
Weathers, L...................485-2461 Weathers, T Allen.............485-2539
|
|
Weisdorfer, Charles Ivan......485-2254 Weisdorfer, Donald............485-2256
|
|
Weisdorger, Donald............485-2671 Wood, Travis..................485-2693
|
|
|
|
<<XYZ>>
|
|
Ybarra, Amadeo................485-2610 Ybarra, Carmen................485-2690
|
|
Ybarra Propane................485-2686 Zachry, Dellas G..............485-2654
|
|
|
|
Their phone company is called Enmr Telephone Cooperative, Inc. Their business
|
|
office's number is 1-800-432-2369 and repair service is also 1-800-432-2369.
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|
|
|
Interviews With Roy Residents:
|
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
|
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Cactus Flower Gifts: I called here and a very nice lady answered the phone.
|
|
Their phone number is 485-2626 so it's obvious that this is Emanuel Goldstien's
|
|
Roy Headquarters for 2600 Magazine.
|
|
|
|
HER: Cactus Flower Gifts.
|
|
ME:: What kind of flowers can I get there?
|
|
HER: Well, we don't actually have any flowers available right now.
|
|
ME:: Isn't this a flower shop?
|
|
HER: No, it's a gift shop.
|
|
ME:: Like sort of a souvineer shop??
|
|
HER: Yeah.
|
|
ME:: Hey, cool, do you have anything with "Roy New Mexico" printed on it?
|
|
HER: Hmmm, well, we have coffee mugs and some magnets.
|
|
ME:: How much are the magnets?
|
|
HER: They're $2.10, that'd be $2.22 with tax.
|
|
ME:: Do you think I could send you a money order and you could mail it to me?
|
|
HER: No, I don't think that'd be a problem.
|
|
ME:: Okay, could I get your address there?
|
|
HER: It's P.O. Box 98, Roy, New Mexico, 87743.
|
|
ME:: Do the magnets have "Roy" printed on them? Any with a cactus on it?
|
|
HER: (Rummages through her magnets...) Yeah, here's one...It's got a cactus, a
|
|
road runner and has Roy, NM printed along the bottom.
|
|
ME:: Cool, well, I'll send you the money and a little extra for postage first
|
|
thing in the morning then!
|
|
HER: Okay, well, thank you.
|
|
|
|
Funny, not once did she act like it was weird that I was calling to mail order
|
|
something, nor did she ask me where I was calling from. Unfortunately I was
|
|
making all these calls on July 4th so I wasn't able to talk to the police
|
|
ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿station. But several stores were still
|
|
³ -CLOSED- ³open and a lot of residents were home to
|
|
³THE ROY POLICE DEPARTMENT IS CLOSED³talk to. I was able to get ahold of Travis
|
|
³TODAY IN OBSERVANCE OF INDEPENDENCE³Wood and have a few words with him:
|
|
³DAY. PLEASE DO NOT COMMIT ANY KIND³
|
|
³OF CRIMES OR DIE TODAY. THANK YOU!³TRAVIS: Hello?
|
|
ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙRBCP: Hi, I'm with the Los Angeles Daily
|
|
news in California. We're just doing an interview to the residents of Roy, New
|
|
Mexico concerning the recent UFO sightings over your town.
|
|
TRAV: Oh. Well, I don't know about any UFOs being sighted over the city. Have
|
|
you had any reports of 'em?
|
|
RBCP: Oh, tons! It's all over the news and the papers over here. And also in
|
|
New York where I've been doing some work.
|
|
TRAV: I'm not aware of very much. Of course, there's been some reports here,
|
|
I know.
|
|
RBCP: Yes, and there was a lot around Wagon Mound, too.
|
|
TRAV: Yes, uh huh.
|
|
RBCP: Have you heard anything about this?
|
|
TRAV: Not recently, no.
|
|
RBCP: Okay, well I'll just call some other people in the book here. Thanks a
|
|
lot for your time.
|
|
|
|
Then I called up Herman & Helen and let Zak speak a bit on the same topic:
|
|
|
|
HELEN: Hello?
|
|
ZAK: Is this Helen?
|
|
HLN: Yes it is.
|
|
ZAK: This is Alex from the New York times in New York City.
|
|
HLN: It's who?
|
|
ZAK: The New York Times, the newspaper in New York City...Hello?
|
|
HLN: Hello?
|
|
ZAK: Yes, I'm with the newspaper. The BIG one in New York City.
|
|
RBCP: New York City??
|
|
HLN: I'm not interested in it, I don't think...
|
|
ZAK: No, no, we don't deliver out there, HELL no! I'm calling about the UFO
|
|
sightings over your town.
|
|
HLN: Well I just don't know nothing about it.
|
|
ZAK: Hmmmm, well last night there was a big UFO sighted over your town and it's
|
|
in all the newspapers and on T.V. You didn't see anything like that?
|
|
HLN: No sir, I sure haven't.
|
|
ZAK: Well, the reports here say that they came for those neat little magnets
|
|
with the cactus and the roadrunner on them. And they wanted to kidnap
|
|
people named Herman. Do you know anyone named Herman?
|
|
HLN: Yes, I know someone.
|
|
ZAK: Who do you know named Herman?
|
|
HLN: I know someone named Herman, yes.
|
|
ZAK: Who is it?
|
|
HLN: It's my husband.
|
|
ZAK: Oh, you should probably hide him because, you know, the aliens might get
|
|
him.
|
|
|
|
It ended up that Herman was also on the phone listening in and the phone call
|
|
ended kind of lamely. Our next phone call was to Bob Hicks. I had to talk to
|
|
his wife about my bubble mower being stolen by two danged kids.
|
|
|
|
ME:: Hello, is Bob home?
|
|
HER: I think he's around somewhere but not very close. Can I have him call you?
|
|
ME:: Well, this is Ross. Ross Glaze. And some kids just came over here and
|
|
stole my ridin' mower! Have you seen 'em drivin' around your house there?
|
|
HER: No, I haven't. Who'd you say this is?
|
|
ME:: Two stupid little kids drivin' my ridin' mower all over the place. This
|
|
is Ross Glaze, down the street, cross town, 'round the bend.
|
|
HER: Where are you from?
|
|
ME:: I'm here in Roy.
|
|
HER: Well, there hadn't been anyone around here.
|
|
ME:: Well, if you see 'em you give me a call back, okay?
|
|
HER: What's your number?
|
|
ME:: It's 2525.
|
|
HER: Okay, I will.
|
|
ME:: Thank you, bye!
|
|
|
|
Leon Payton was a fun person to call because he wasn't home and I got to talk
|
|
to his answering machine. Me, being the amazing unbelievable hacker that I am,
|
|
was able to conquer his one digit passcode on his answering machine, listen to
|
|
his messages, erase them and then change his greeting.
|
|
|
|
OLD MESSAGE:
|
|
"Hello. This is Leon. I am unable to answer the telephone right now, but if
|
|
you will leave your name and telephone number, I will return your call."
|
|
|
|
NEW AND IMPROVED MESSAGE:
|
|
"Hello, this answering machine has been infiltrated by the Phone Losers of
|
|
America. You HAVE reached the PLA headquarters in Roy, New Mexico. Leon no
|
|
longer owns this machine or the house. It's all been taken over by the PLA.
|
|
Unfortunately no one is here to answer your call, but if you leave your name,
|
|
number and a message, we'll get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you
|
|
for calling..."
|
|
|
|
|
|
_______________________________________________________________________________
|
|
---Phone Losers Of America Headline News---
|
|
_______________________________________________________________________________
|
|
|
|
Retired Switchboard Operator Recalls Listening In:
|
|
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
|
|
3/26/94 broadcast news
|
|
|
|
DANIEL ZWERDLING, Host: In the 1940's and '50's Veladie Parker worked as a
|
|
switchboard operator in the small town of McGreggor in East Texas. And Parker
|
|
says that like most telephone operators, she would occasionally pass time
|
|
listening in on people's telephone calls.
|
|
|
|
VELADIE PARKER: We knew everybody who was doing things they shouldn't be doing.
|
|
We knew boyfriends, girlfriends, oh yes, we knew. And we talked about it among
|
|
ourselves, but we didn't make gossip of it. Because you know, when I was in
|
|
Waco and they trained me, Miss Mamie trained me, and she said, now, I'm going
|
|
to tell you it is not against the law to listen in, but it is against the
|
|
federal law to repeat it, and you know information begs to be told. Never
|
|
would forget that, never will, a hundred years ago. [laughter]
|
|
|
|
[music]
|
|
|
|
MS. PARKER: There was a killer out, it has been a long, long time ago, and he
|
|
broke out of jail and I was working on nights and he killed about six people
|
|
in East Texas, I think, and he was out. I just happened to pick up a call
|
|
where he was, and, boy, it hit me like that. And I pondered and pondered and
|
|
pondered over it, you know. And so, I finally called the Texas Rangers and
|
|
told them and, so, he was done away with pretty quick after that. That was one
|
|
thing that's been on my mind all my life.
|
|
|
|
Teen-agers and Their Families Are Victims of Telephone Chat Lines:
|
|
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
|
|
[The following is a news transcript I found in the library computers and
|
|
thought it was interesting. I used to really be into the chat line scene,
|
|
but not in the 515 area. This article is really accurate about how people
|
|
get addicted to these things...RBCP]
|
|
|
|
Dateline NBC Friday Dec2, 1994
|
|
|
|
BRYANT GUMBEL reporting: Good evening. It's a fact of life that kids,
|
|
especially teen-agers, spend a lot of time on the phone. So it should come as
|
|
no surprise that so-called 'chat lines' have become the latest craze of some
|
|
young people. The lines seem innocent enough, but there is a downside. We
|
|
found teen-agers who became obsessed--in one case even running away to live
|
|
with strangers from the chat line. Here's Lea Thompson with part three of our
|
|
DATELINE investigation. DIALING FOR DOLLAR$ [<-they think they're eleet]
|
|
|
|
Offscreen Voice: (From telephone) What's up? You've reached the rap line.
|
|
|
|
ALEXIS: It really gets you addicted because you want to keep calling these
|
|
people.
|
|
|
|
LEA THOMPSON reporting: (voiceover) It's a totally teen phenomenon.
|
|
|
|
Ms. KYLE BURGER: I got hooked on it, and I kept calling it.
|
|
|
|
Offscreen Voice: (From telephone) Welcome to the line with you in mind.
|
|
|
|
ALEXIS: I spent almost 24 hours a day on that line.
|
|
|
|
THOMPSON: Anyone can join this party line of the young and the restless; half
|
|
a dozen can share conversation on one line. It's advertised as free but it can
|
|
be very expensive and dangerous.
|
|
|
|
ALEXIS: I never thought it would lead to this. This never crosses your mind
|
|
when you pick up a phone. I mean, it's a phone. Who would know it could tear
|
|
your family apart so much?
|
|
|
|
THOMPSON: What did you talk about?
|
|
|
|
ALEXIS: Anything. There was--you could say anything and everything.
|
|
|
|
THOMPSON: But you talked for hours at a time?
|
|
|
|
ALEXIS: Oh, god. I talked for days at a time!
|
|
|
|
THOMPSON: Alexis says she got addicted to chat lines after she changed schools
|
|
and started having a lot of trouble fitting in. What did the chat line do for
|
|
you that you couldn't get from your friends?
|
|
|
|
ALEXIS: I guess more acceptance, you know. I was always a very insecure person.
|
|
|
|
THOMPSON: For Alexis, the cost of this long-distance belonging was very high,
|
|
higher than anyone could imagine.
|
|
|
|
ALEXIS: I admit I was totally hooked on that line.
|
|
|
|
THOMPSON: Every time things heated up at home over the phone bills, the 14
|
|
year old would take off across the country to live with adults, men and women
|
|
she'd met on the chat line.
|
|
|
|
ALEXIS: There was, ranging from 19 years old to--I think the oldest I was with
|
|
was twenty-five.
|
|
|
|
THOMPSON: And she did it not once or twice but six times. You just blindly
|
|
went off and met these people without a second thought?
|
|
|
|
ALEXIS: Oh yeah, no thought at all. It was just, you know, I'm getting away
|
|
from my problems. I'm--it's always in the TV or newspapers that yes, you know,
|
|
this person's been raped and killed or so and so; but it never occurred to me
|
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that it could actually happen to me.
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THOMPSON: But it occurred to her father, Bill, who was desperately trying to
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find her.
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BILL: Yes, we were worried every time she was gone.
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THOMPSON: And Alexis had run up more than $4,000 in long distance bills. When
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her father couldn't pay, the phone was disconnected. But that isn't supposed
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to happen. Two years ago, Congress wrote a law to protect families from phone
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nightmares like this. The law says that services like chat lines are supposed
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to be on 900 numbers, numbers parents can have blocked. It says you can dispute
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a 900-call charge without being disconnected. To get around the law, chat lines
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have moved their services onto regular long-distance lines, and that strips
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parents of the power to protect themselves and their kids. As a result, Bill
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had no recourse when Pacific Bell disconnected his service, and he was reduced
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to calling Alexis' chat-line friends to try to find her.
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Offscreen Voice: (from telephone) A place to talk to girls and guys from all
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over the hood...
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BILL: We spent hours at pay phones calling people on the chat line.
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THOMPSON: It worked and he brought her home. But then he almost lost her for
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good. Alexis says her life was a disaster, and the bills and the anger and the
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guilt were too much.
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ALEXIS: And I attempted suicide and ended up in intensive care on my birthday.
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And that was, like, one of the worst times in my life.
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BILL: It's been a pure hell. Nothing mattered to her as much as being on the
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phone.
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Offscreen Voice: (from telephone) Hey, everyone, thanks for calling. You've
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reached the most raging party line in the country.
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THOMPSON: Seventeen-year-old Kyle Burger was also lured into the chat-line
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scene, much to the dismay of her mother.
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Ms. MARY BURGER: It makes me angry because the kids don't know any better.
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KYLE BURGER: My friend gave me the phone number. That because my new set of
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friends.
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THOMPSON: Mary Burger says kids often get started after reading the dozens of
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chat-line adds in magazines like Rolling Stone or Spin. The ads say it is 'hip'
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and 'hot' and 'sexy' and 'free'--free.
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THOMPSON: Did you think it was free?
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KYLE BURGER: The introduction to the party line was misleading.
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THOMPSON: With her mother's permission, Kyle showed us how to get to her
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favorite chat line. It's a 515 area code.
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Offscreen Voice: (from telephone) This is...(unintelligible)...the one and
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only, your personal connection to the hottest free party lines around.
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THOMPSON: It said 'free.'
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KYLE BURGER: It did.
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THOMPSON: Do you believe you were doing enough to try to cut her off?
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Ms. MARY BURGER: I was locking up the telephones. I would lock them in the
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trunk of my car. And you have to understand, too, that by the time I had my
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first bill, we were halfway into another billing cycle, so, you know, probably
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$3-$400 worth of charges already in place before I found out about it for the
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very first time.
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THOMPSON: Mary also found out that Kyle was hearing more that just idle chat
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on these lines.
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KYLE BURGER: Hello? Do I have any daughters? No.
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THOMPSON: When we heard the man on the other end of this call tell Kyle he was
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watching a child porn film, we cut it off. Kyle's mother went on a crusade to
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track down who was behind all of this. It turned out to be a complicated trail,
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full of surprises. You might think her search would take her to Las Vagas, New
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York, LA, but that 515 area code on her telephone bills led her to this small
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town of Jefferson, Iowa. It's become the unlikely crossroads for hundreds of
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chat and sex lines. This area may be known as the home of corn and cattle, but
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now chat lines are a major cash crop. According to public records, in the two
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years since the small Jefferson Telephone Company hooked up with the chat and
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sex line operator, its profits have jumped from $352,000 a year to $2,216,000
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a year.
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BILL: It's amazing. I mean, obviously they've latched on a gold mine.
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THOMPSON: The Jefferson Telephone Company first told us it had severed its
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relationship with the company that actually programs the chat lines. Jefferson
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Telephone refused to be interviewed on camera, but in a letter to Dateline
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said, 'because some people find parts of the programming objectionable, we did
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the right thing in terminating the contract.' But Kyle Burger had no trouble
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getting Jefferson's 515 party line. Jefferson admits the contract with the
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company requires it to keep the lines open for up to one year after giving
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notice. And who is that contract with?
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Ms. MARY BURGER: His name's Ian Eisenberg.
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THOMPSON: When Mary Burger complained to the Jefferson Telephone Company, she
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was sent to Ian and Joel Eisenberg.
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Ms. MARY BURGER: And I said, 'I'm not going to go away. I want you to know that
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I'm going to be your worst nightmare.'
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THOMPSON: The man in the Rolls Royce is Joel Eisenberg. Eisenberg's business
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took in more than $63 million a year, according to documents filed in court in
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1991 by the IRS. He then was running 72 separate corporations, almost all in
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the phone-entertainment business. Eisenberg gained national attention in the
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late '80s when he ran a TV ad encouraging kids to call Santa Claus on a 900
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pay line. It instructed children to hold up the phone to the TV. Then the
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commercial played the telephone tones and the call was automatically connected.
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The IRS has investigated whather Joel Eisenberg underreported his income. The
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agency raided his Seattle offices in 1991. No charges have been filed. Mean-
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while, the elder Eisenberg has passed the chat-line business off to his son,
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Ian. We wanted to talk to Joel and Ian Eisenberg. They wouldn't respond to our
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request for an interview, so we tried in person.
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(Thompson waiting by car as man leaves car)
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THOMPSON: Mr. Eisenberg?
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JOEL EISENBERG: Yes.
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THOMPSON: How do you do? I'm Lea Thompson from DATELINE NBC.
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JOEL EISENBERG: Hi. How are you?
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THOMPSON: I wonder if I could talk to you a little bit about your business.
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JOEL EISENBERG: I'm afraid not.
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THOMPSON: (seconds later, Ian showed up for work) Are you Mr. Eisenberg?
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IAN EISENBERG: You are?
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THOMPSON: Lea Thompson from DATELINE NBC. I wonder if I could talk to you a
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little bit about you and your father's business. We'd like to talk to you about
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the chat lines. People say that you're running ads that say the chat lines are
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free, and then they get these huge bills, and they want to know how you can
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call your chat lines 'free'?
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While Ian Eisenberg didn't answer, industry insiders say the chat is free
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because you only pay the long-distance charges. So how do people like the
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Eisenbergs make so much money? Well, Jefferson Telephone says it gives the
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Eisenbergs a cut of what it collects. We went to the Federal Communications
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Commission to ask if it was legal for a phone company to do that. Now the FCC
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is asking questions, too.
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KATHLEEN WALLMAN (FCC): We've commenced an investigation of the Jefferson
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Company, including an audit of its books, and that compensation arrangement is
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one of the things we're looking at.
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THOMPSON: People like Mary Burger never heard about chat lines until eight
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months ago. Now she says they represent expense and exploitation that never
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seems to end.
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MARY BURGER: I felt victimized by the Ian Eisenbergs of the world, and I felt
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victimized by the phone companies, and I felt victimized by my own daughter.
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THOMPSON: What did it do to your family?
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MARY BURGER: It made enemies out of us. I'm sorry.
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THOMPSON: It tore your family apart.
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MARY BURGER: It put my daughter in touch with people that--that I felt weren't
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good for her. It brought a lot of hatred and animosity into my home. It's not
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been easy to deal with.
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GUMBEL: If you feel that your child is spending too much time on chat lines,
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try calling your local phone company. They can't help too much, but there are
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a few that will block the number for you.
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Become A PLA Distribution Site Today!:
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Below is the current list of listed Phone Loser distribution sites. If you'd
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like to become a PLA distribution site or already carry the PLA files on your
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board, fill out the application form attached below. (Especially if your area
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code isn't in the below list.) Please note that some of these boards aren't
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"offical" sites, but just boards that happen to carry our files on them.
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206-859-9469 Dark Side of the Moon.........................Seattle, Washington
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208-466-1679 King's Domain........................................Nampa, Idaho
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301-884-5012 Studio 54................................Mechanicsville, Maryland
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303-343-4053 Hacker's Haven...................................Aurora, Colorado
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303-932-1195 Twenty Miles North of Nowhere............................Colorado
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312-528-5020 Ripco...........................................Chicago, Illinois
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319-234-3654 UnderDark..........................................Waterloo, Iowa
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360-297-4049 The Coven................................ ...Kingston, Washington
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405-341-9361 Phreaks of the Industry...................Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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405-720-1666 Dissident.................................Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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503-636-3855 The Bin..........................................Portland, Oregon
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510-743-0603 Terminal Drift...............................East Bay, California
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512-458-3409 The Sprawl..........................................Austin, Texas
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512-790-8989 Aurora Magellan...................................Rockport, Texas
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512-851-8317 Sonic Youth Systems.........................Corpus Christi, Texas
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512-883-7543 Whombat Communications...(RBCP's Lame BBS)..Corpus Christi, Texas
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514-725-0189 Sillicon Underground.............................Montreal, Quebec
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616-373-5885 Larcenist's Keep..............................Kalamazoo, Michigan
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618-797-2339 Roy's Place (PLA Original WHQ).............Granite City, Illinois
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619-451-2174,,11,11 Sea of Green.........................San Diego, California
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703-362-9629 The Other Side of Reality................................Virginia
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717-788-7435 Cyber-Sphincter...............................Drums, Pennsylvania
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810-348-0421 Daddy Hill House.............................Northville, Michigan
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907-780-6760 Syenergy...........................................Juneau, Alaska
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ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ¿
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³ ³
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³ Ù ³ ³ / ³ ³
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³ ÚÄÄÙ ³ ÚÄÄ ³ Application To Be A Phone Loser Distribution Site ³
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³ ÄÙ ÄÄÄÙ ÄÙ ÄÙ ³
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ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´
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³ So, you'd like to be one of the "official" distribution sites for the Fone ³
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³ Losers of America? Why?? You know, when everybody finds out that you're ³
|
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³ pathetic enough to carry PLA on your system they're all just going to ³
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³ laugh at you and make fun of you and have your home phone turned into a ³
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³ pay phone but if you really, really insist, here's the application... ³
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³ ³
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³ Really, there's no application about it. Anyone who wants to can become a ³
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³ distribution site, all you have to do is apply. What do you get out of it? ³
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³ Well, you get put on the Distribution List. Other than that, nothing really³
|
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³ special happens to you and you still won't have any friends, you'll just ³
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³ have a bunch of crappy files on your hard drive. ³
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ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´
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³ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄPLApplication:ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄij
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³ ³
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³ Name of Your BBS:________________________________________________________ ³
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³ ³
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³ Podunk Town & State You Live In:_________________________________________ ³
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³ ³
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³ Telephone Number(s):_____________________________________________________ ³
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³ ³
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³ Your Handle:_____________________________________________________________ ³
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³ ³
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³ Internet Address:________________________________________________________ ³
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³ ³
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³ How Long Has Your BBS Existed?_____________Cactus?_______________________ ³
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³ ³
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³ Alternative Means of Contacting You:_____________________________________ ³
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³ ³
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³ _________________________________________________________________________ ³
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ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´
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³ Here's how it works: Send this form back to the PLA and you'll be added to ³
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³ the distribution list. You can send this back via internet or by calling ³
|
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³ one of the PLA Systems, listed at the end of this file. If for some reason ³
|
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³ you can't contact us in e-mail, you can leave a voice request on the PLA ³
|
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³ voicemail box. If all else fails, U.S. mail will be fine. ³
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³ ³
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³ If you have an e-mail account, you'll get the issues within 24 hours of ³
|
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³ their release. If you call one of the PLA Data Lines, you can also get it ³
|
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³ pretty quick. If you absolutely can not call long distance, let us know and³
|
|
³ we'll call your system and upload the files periodically. Keep in mind, if ³
|
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³ you're unable to call long distance for free, we'll be making fun of you ³
|
|
³ behind your back all the time, but we'll still be nice enough to upload the³
|
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³ issues to you, maybe. (Especially if it's a board I frequent.) ³
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³ ³
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³ RULES AND REGURLASHINS: ³
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³ ³
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³ o You have to designate a section in your files area that is only for PLA ³
|
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³ texts, graphics, etc. ³
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³ o Every user, no matter how lame he is or how much you despise him or even ³
|
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³ if he used the PLA hacking technique on your BBS, must have access to the³
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³ PLA section of your system. ³
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³ o If any member of the PLA is to log on to your board, you must give him ³
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³ full & complete access, which includes, but is not limited to access to ³
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³ all of your text files, all your illegal warez, utilities, your Telix ³
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³ .FON directory with your bbs list and passwords, your personal Doogie ³
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³ Howser diary, personal mail, word processing files, financial records, ³
|
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³ etc, etc, etc... If a PLA member continues to call your bbs, you must ³
|
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³ start sending him/her lots of money in the mail and telling everyone how ³
|
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³ cool he/she is. ³
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ÃÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ´
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³ Well, that's about it. If you really think I'm going to try and enforce any³
|
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³ of these rules, you're on drugs. This is just what I prefer. I mean, it's ³
|
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³ not like PLA contains any kind of valuable information to the point of you ³
|
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³ needing to only let the elite users have access to it. So, mail off this ³
|
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³ application ASAP and you're on your way to fame and fortune. ³
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ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÙ
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ÕÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍContactÍTheÍPhoneÍLosersÍOfÍAmericaÍNearestÍYou!ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͸
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³ Voice: ³ Data: ³
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³ 512-370-4680 PLA Voicemail System ³ 618-797-2339 PLA BBS Illinois Line ³
|
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³ 314-995-1261 Zak's VMB System ³ 512-883-7543 PLA BBS Texas Line ³
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ÆÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͵ 512-851-8317 Sonic Youth Systems ³
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³ U.S. Mailing Address: ÆÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͵
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³ Phone Losers Of America ³ FTP Site: FTP.FC.NET ³
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³ P.O. Box 3642 ³ directory pub\deadkat\phreaking\PLA ³
|
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³ Corpus Christi, TX 78463 ³ (Thanks to Disorder & Deadkat!) ³
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ÆÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÏÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ͵
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³ Internet: rbcp@big12.metrobbs.com (To contact RedBoxChiliPepper) ³
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³ cactus@basenet.net (To contact Zak a.k.a. el_jefe) ³
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³ collcard@big12.metrobbs.com (To contact Colleen Card) ³
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ÔÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ;
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