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How to obtain credit and calling card numbers the easy way!
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Being in the business of surveillance, I have discovered many tricks over the
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years to find people. Some of these tricks can be worked in reverse, for say
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"other" means.
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I am not in any way encouraging criminal activity but provide this information
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merely as a tutorial regarding security--your security and how you can maintain
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it.
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I have had several friends who were in the lucrative business of supplying
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credit card numbers to counterfeiters. Some of these counterfieters can make a
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visa card that looks so good you would not believe that it is a fake. Supplying
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the credit card numbers is a safer end of the business. Most of my then
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associates did things like, take temporary work at stores to get credit card
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numbers. Some would find some young, lonely girl who worked in a retail store
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and "woo" her for the numbers. Still others used the tried at true method of
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"dumpster diving" behind banks and department stores for the carbons.
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These days with new credit card policies you not only have to have the number
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but you also must have the address that the account is under to be able to
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charge things, especially "over the phone" type deals. So how do you hook up the
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numbers to the address and how can you get numbers using an easier method than
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diving in trash?
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Well, I am about to give away one of my best kept secrets. Pay attention. When I
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was working on a divorce case, the wife of the mark hired me to follow her
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husband and find out what he was doing and who with. I could not pin anything on
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this guy as he was pretty slick. I knew he was having an affair but none of the
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conventional methods were working and the lady needed proof quick.
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All I knew was that this guy would go to his boat a couple of times a week. Nice
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boat too! The kind you could live on comfortably. So I would follow him down to
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the marina where it was docked and sit in this nearby coffee shop and just
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watch. I never saw anything. This went on for weeks and in a moment of
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frustration I was having beers with a buddy of mine and he asked me if he had a
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radio on the boat. I told him of course. Probably. Who wouldn't? Then he asked
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me if this guy had a phone on board and I told him as far as I knew boats didn't
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have phones.
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My pal smiled at me and quietly sipped his beer and told me to go to Radio Shack
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and buy a MARINE SCANNER. I thought to myself, why the hell would I want that?
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He refused to tell me why but told me to do it and to find the marine office's
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radio frequency. I did all this. The scanner cost me $79.00 but was well worth
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it!!
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Let me tell you. With a little bamboozling, I got the marine office to tell me
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the frequency they use to communicate with the boats in the marina. I told them
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I was having radio trouble and if they could help me out. They did. I tuned the
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scanner to the marina's frequency and sat in the coffee shop with an earplug in
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my ear and a writing tablet on the table.
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To the rest of the world I looked like a guy who was scribbling some notes and
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listening to a ball game on a pocket radio. In reality I was listening to
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conversations the mark was having with a sex service.
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See, to make a phone call from a boat you have to call the marine office and
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they have to patch your call thru for you. They are not going to accept the
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charges for YOUR call so generally they ask you how you want to pay? With credit
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card or calling card. The guy on the boat gives the dispatch marine office his
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credit card to place the call or the calling card number, either way you get all
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the info.
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Bingo! I had my mark dead cold and I learned something new to boot! I sat back
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that day and listened to several people making phone calls from their boats. It
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was amazing the amount of info you can get! Some marina's have a link line so
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that once they patch you thru you can dial in your own calling card number but
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as long as you have a DTMF tone decoder you can easily decode the tones to
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numbers and get the goods.
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When comparing notes with some other friends I also learned that tow-truck
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companies accept credit cards also. So I experimented and found out the
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frequency of a local tow truck company and I listened for awhile. You would be
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surprised at how many people get their cars towed and pay with credit cards!
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They have to have the billing address and account info to process the tow forms
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so if you listen closely you can get all of that easily!
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Many places are now encoding their transmissions to prevent eavesdropping but
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there are several that are still "fair game". You just have to do a bit of
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research and find out. Remember cab companies accept credit cards for their
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fares now. Limo services must verify any credit information before picking up
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the parties they will drive. Those are easy frequencies to "hock".
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If you have access to a scanner of this type then experiment with it and you
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will see for yourself. The information is out there, it is just a matter of
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getting it. Even if the transmissions are coded there are several ways of
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decoding the the signal to get the hidden information within.
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How about converting an old tv set to a Tempest type of unit. I have seen small
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ads placed in computer magazines like Byte, where for a few dollars you can get
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the plans to build a small tempest type of set-up. For those of you not in the
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know a Tempest device can read a computer screen. Meaning, if I have this device
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and I am outside your home and you are inside on your computer, I can see
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exactly what you type. Passwords, access codes--everything!!!
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How hard would it be to make a small Tempest unit out of an old tv set and sit
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outside your friendly video store? Generally speaking when you rent a movie and
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they bring your account up on the screen your credit info is there also because
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you usually need a credit card to open a video account. If joe blow is at the
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check out stand with his movies and the customer help pulls his rental account
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up on the computer, you could easily get all that data. If you were really smart
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you would hook up a vcr to the tv and just record the transactions for the day
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and get maybe hundereds of credit card numbers.
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Now of course the easiest way to protect yourself from these types of measures
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is to deal direct with whoever you are getting services from. Call nothing in if
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at all possible. Don't use your credit card unless absolutely necessary and then
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get the carbons and if you do not feel comfortable with an exchange, don't be
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afraid to request to see the manager and tell them your concerns. You would be
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surprised how a quick "chat" with the manager would go a long way to protecting
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you.
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