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/ | The United Ignorance Front |
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| | FAX MACHINE FUN |
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| | written by: The Iocat |
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| | This article originally |
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| | THE UNDERGROUND EXPRESS |
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| |"The Official Voice of the UIF"|
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| |this article is (c) 1989 by the|
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| |UIF. All rights reserved. This|
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| |file may be distributed un-|
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| |altered exclusivly in the modem|
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| |community. (If you feel a dire|
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| |need to put your BBS's # on it|
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| |do it at the end) |
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|/_______________________________/
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INTRO-
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In the late 80's we have seen a massive explosion in the popularity of FAX
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machines. Everyone has one. They are cheap, easy to use, and very useful. Up
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until now, however, they have been almost exclusivly in the province of the
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buisness world. Just for those of you who have been in comas for the last few
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years, I'll explain fax machines to you.
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Fax machines are combination scanners/modems/printers. You can transmit the
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contents of a piece of paper to another fax over the phone lines. Usually,
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your fax also prints the number you called from on the first sheet of the
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transmittal. It is easy to see why buisnesses like these. No longer content
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with Federal Express, now letters can go cross country in minutes. FAXes have
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about 200-250 dpi resolution, and print out on rolls of thermal paper. For
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some odd reason, most of them are 4800 baud.
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THE GOOD PART-
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"So what" you ask? Most people don't seem to realize the potential available
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here. When I worked at The FHLB, we used to get FAXes all the time, with
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requests for checks. Occasionaly, we also got short notes from the idiots at
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the other banks. This is what gave me the idea for what I call, for lack of a
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better term, FAX Piracy.
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FAX Piracy is the ultimate crank call. Let me give you an example.
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There was this library I hated, and, like everyone else, they have a FAX. So
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what me and a few of my freinds did was send them requests, "from" another
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library for books. I found out later, from a kid who worked there that they
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wasted about $50, sending them all the books. Not much, but if you know how
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cheap librarians are, you can imagine the shit fits they had.
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Next, we send them a "Mobius FAX" we got some sheets of black construction
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paper, taped about 10 of them together, and started feeding them through the
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fax. Once the start of the long sheet we had created came through, we taped it
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to the end. This went on continuosly for about 15 minutes until their (very
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expensive) thermal paper ran out. Since we had sent them nothing but black
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paper, it completely covered and ruined all of their paper. This used up their
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3 month paper allocation at once, and they had to borrow from petty cash to buy
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more.
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Finally we sent them a little note, telling them what idiots they were, and
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signing it "The FAX Pirates"
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HOW TO DO IT-
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First, and this is VERY IMPORTANT- Always remember to REPROGRAM the FAX so it
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displays someone elses name and number. If you forget to do this, its like
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sending a letter bomb with a return adress.
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Second, decide what to send. This is entirely up to you (duh), and depends
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on whether you want to annoy them, or really destroy them. Wierd requests from
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other campies you hate, long rambling stories, or strange art is always good.
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Be a little creative. (this part is especially fun if you have a MAC, and
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access to a laserwriter)
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Third, send it. (Wow, some people need to be told everything, don't they)
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What? You don't know their FAX #? It's not in information? It's not in the
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phone book? Well, keep reading!
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HOW TO GET FAX PHONE NUMBERS-
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This is just way easier than it should be. Call and ask. I'm serious, we've
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done this probably over 30 times, and NO ONE HAS EVER QUESTIONED OUR REQUEST!
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I'll give you a sample of a call that actually happened. (this is verbatum, we
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taped it)
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IBM LADY Hello, IBM, may I help you?
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ME Hi, this is Biff Fulgate from over here at Linear Data Systems
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Can I get your FAX number, those boys in research need to send
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something over and they lost the number again.
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IBM LADY Please hold on a moment
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ME Sure thing. Hah, those cooks over in research would probably
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lose their heads if they weren't screwed on.
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IBM LADY Haha. Now is that the Tower 700 number?
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ME Um...let me check here... Yeah, that's it. (Tower 700? what?)
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IBM LADY Ok, hold on
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(Long wait during which I get slightly nervous)
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IBM LADY Ok That number is 313-xxx-xxxx
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ME Thanks, Bye
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Also, most ads have FAX numbers. Don't fuck with little companies though.
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A)they don't need it, B)they are probably more suspicious, C)it hurts them more
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than it would hurt a big company. Be a caring capitalist.
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If you need any suggestions as to who's number to get try the following-
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newspapers, radios stations, big companies, libraries, city & state
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governments, the right to life movement, ect.
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HINTS-
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Act like you know whats going on at all times.
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Be polite, and a little bit familiar
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Make sure you have a plausable reason for getting the number
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Don't laugh
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Let the person who sounds most 'adult-like' make the call
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Make sure you have a plausable name
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Remember, the larger the company, the less the people know and care about
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other parts of the company, so the greater chance you have of not getting
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hassled. ALSO! Don't forget to change the "number" you are calling from.
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If you want to send a Mobius FAX, usually FAXes have paper feed trays (we
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didn't know that when we did it)
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ALSO- NEVER, EVER, DO THIS TO AT&T!
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HOW TO GET A FAX TO USE-
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Well, if you don't have one, try mommy's or daddy's office. Most Campus
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offices have FAXes you can pretend that you are supposed to be using (tell them
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the library sent you). Many print-shops (like Kinko's) have FAX machines that
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you can use for a nominal fee. And, just like terminals in the early 80's,
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most fax machines are just sitting out in offices, if you dress nicely, and
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look like you know what you're doing, no one is going to ask questions.
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SOME NUMBERS TO CALL-
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I have a pretty good list of #'s that you can call, but I will upload it in a
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different file, at a later date.
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IF YOU LIKED THIS FILE-
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Please send a host of annoying FAXes to your local "Right to Life" chapter.
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*-- For really good info on how to really fuck up a company with mail, or
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faxes, I recommend Keith Wade's POISON PEN LETTERS & YOUR REVENGE IS IN THE
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MAIL both available from the Loompanics Book Catalog (see my file on that for
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the adress)
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The above article is fiction and any similarity between it and real life is
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purely coincidental. Yeah, right! Sure! It REALLY IS!
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