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³ The Phone Losers Of America ³
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³ Presents ³
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³ Totally Free Cash In The Mail From AT&T! - Written by RedBoxChiliPepper ³
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³ Written On February 23, 1993 Last Revision On December 27, 1994 ³
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³ For Informational Purposes Only. We're Not Responsible For Your Stupidity. ³
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Are you jobless? Need a little extra cash for the weekend? Have a girlfriend
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that spends all of your money? Well, AT&T operators are always more than
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happy to mail you a check or two for a good five bucks each. If you've ever
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called up the operator and tried to convince her that you lost your quarter
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then you know that they hardly ever put the call through for you. They'll
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always send you a check in the mail for 25 cents.
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Well, this method also works on long distance and international calls just
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as well. A long distance call can run you up to $2.30 and I think the most
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expensive international call I've found is $6.35. If you tell the operator
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you lost all this money, she'll happily refund your money. Here's how the
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conversation usually goes with me:
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You go to a pay phone. It HAS to be a pay phone, they're not THAT stupid.
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I dial the numbers 102880 which gives me the AT&T operator. (For those of
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you with short memories, dial 10ATT0.)
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THEM: "AT&T, this is Mrs. Papshmeer, how may I help you?"
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YOU: "Yeah, I was making an international call using my spare pocket change
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that I stole by breaking open a Pepsi machine on 86th Street and the
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phone went dead and kept all my money. Could you try the call for me?"
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THEM: "I'm really sorry about that, sir. Our policy won't let me put the
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call through for you but I can refund the money to you in the mail."
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YOU: "Okay, I guess I can do that, then."
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THEM: "Alright how much money did you lose?"
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YOU: "Um...$5.65."
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THEM: "What happened when you placed this call?"
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YOU: "Well, I dialed the number and the operator had me deposit $3.00 of my
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money. Then my party answered and she had me deposit the other $2.65.
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As soon as I put in the rest of my money the phone went completely
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dead."
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THEM: "Alright, what number were you dialing?"
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YOU: "Country code 61, city code 2 and the number was 667-3603."
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THEM: "Okay, I need your name, address and zip code."
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YOU: "(I give her my name address and zip code.)"
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THEM: "We'll have that to you in the mail in about two weeks. Sorry about
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your trouble."
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YOU: "Thank you. You have a hell of a day now!"
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We hang up. About two weeks later I recieve a letter from AT&T's office in
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Jacksonville, Florida with a letter of apology and a check for $5.65.
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Simple as that. Of course, I usually do 2 to 3 calls a week so my checks add
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up to about $10 to $15 a week.
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Some Important Notes:
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First of all, you HAVE to know how much your international call is going to
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cost. If you give them a wrong amount you're in for some extra hassel and
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they sometimes won't give you your refund.
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Also, I described in the conversation AT&T's method of completing an
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international call using coins and this is how it's always done. If you don't
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know how a call is made, the operator will know something's fishy. The phone
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will only hold $3.00 at a time.
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Third, you don't want to keep using the same international numbers over and
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over again. Call me crazy, but I just don't think it's a good idea. Below,
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I'll tell how to do all this:
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The (Dramatic Pause...) Letter I Got:
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For awhile in Indianapolis, Indiana I was doing pretty well with AT&T cash. I
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was actually considering it my second source of income because I was pulling
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in around $70 a week with it. Then in October of 1993 I got a letter from
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AT&T which read:
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Dear (My real name):
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Our records indicate a large number of coin refund requests. In light of this
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history, we cannot provide a refund until AT&T investigates and verifies this
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claim. As part of this investigation, please provide us with the written
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detail of the call and circumstances in which you lost your money. Please mail
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your explanation to: Coin Refund Investigation Unit
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P. O. Box 561615
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Charlotte, NC 28256-1615
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It's been over a year now and I never really heard from them again. Their
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"investigation" probably consisted of sitting on their asses and waiting for
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my reply. Of course I didn't send them one and since then I've moved out of
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state and continue to recieve a moderate amount of AT&T money.
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Divirting Addresses:
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After the AT&T Letter incident, I aquired a check cashing card at the super-
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market under a false name and then sent in a post office "Change Of Address"
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card to Baton Rouge and diverted the mail at a certain address under my fake
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name to my post office box in Indianapolis. When AT&T asked for the address
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to send the check to, I gave them the address in Baton Rouge and it was
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forwarded to me in Indianapolis. So I still got my AT&T cash. They just didn't
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know it.
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Getting An International Number:
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You can get a number a few ways. One is to look in the front of your phone
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book and find the page on completing international calls. All the major
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country and city codes are in there. You can just make up a number of random
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using a country and city code and then a bunch of numbers. Keep in mind,
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though, that foriegn countries numbers aren't all 7 digits like ours are.
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Look up Airlines in your yellow pages. Call the 800 number for any airline
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you want and say you want a time table for Egypt or any country you choose.
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They'll take your name & address and send you some useless flight schedule
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junk. Somewhere in this little booklet is a whole page of international
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numbers. Use them, one by one...
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Call up a phone book ordering office like Ameritech or Dontech and order a
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phone book from a far away place like Australia or Belgium. You can have them
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send you a bill with it which you will ignore or you can charge it to
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somebody else's phone number. Never give them your real name or phone number
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unless you actually want to pay for it. (You honest person, you...)
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The last way is to choose from the below list that I have provided for you.
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The first few numbers are the country code, second numbers are the city code
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and the last few are the phone number. Use these to start your new hobby.
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London, England 44 071 633-9293 Paris, France 33 1 4359-0034
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Frankfort, Germany 49 69 291-001 Nice, France 33 93 82-5284
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Barcelona, Spain 34 3 318-8443 Madrid, Spain 34 1 559-5620
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Rome, Italy 39 6 321-0822 Stockholm, Sweden 46 8 113613
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Tel Aviv, Israel 972 3 528-9660 Zurich, Switzerland 41 1 261-1800
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Brussels, Belgium 32 2 640-1900 Bangkok, Thailand 66 2 231-0113
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Finding Out How Much Your Call Costs:
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Let's say that you picked a number in England. The country code is 44 and the
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city code is 462 which is Letchworth Hertz. The phone number is 682-734. Go
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to your pay fone and dial: 011-44-462-682-734.
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An operator will come on and ask how you're paying for your call. Tell her
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with coins. (Or, to piss her off, nickels.) She'll tell you your call will
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come to $4.65 for the first minute. That's all you need out of her so tell
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her to go to hell and hang up. You now know that your call is worth $4.65
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and that's how much you tell the AT&T operator for your refund.
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How They Complete International Calls:
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So let's say that you were really going to make that call. She would tell you
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the call costs $4.65 and for you to deposit $3.00 now. You put in three
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bucks worth of quarters and you hear the phone start ringing over there in
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England. (Real funky ring, too!) As soon as the dude in England answers, the
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operator says to him, "This is AT&T, I have an international call. Please
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hold..." Then she tells you to put in the other $1.65. After you do that,
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she gets off the line and you're connected to England for a whole three
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minutes until a recording pops back up on the line and asks you for four
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more bucks.
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The reason you put the three in first is because the phone can only handle
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three bucks at a time. The refund operator knows this and tries to throw
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you off by asking what happened when you tried to complete your call. NOW
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you know what to tell her.
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I guess that's about all you need to know to get lots and lots of money from
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AT&T. Since the amount of the check is so small you can usually convince
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the bank or a supermarket to cash it for you with no I.D. so sometimes you
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don't even have to use your real name on the check. I always do, though.
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Hope you find this as helpful as I do when I'm real low on cash. If nothing,
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it should piss your parents off. Cactus.
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