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³ The Phone Losers Of America ³
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³ Presents ³
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³How To Bill All Of your Fone Calls To Some Poor, Unsuspecting Son Of A Bitch³
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³ Written By RedBoxChiliPepper ³
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³ Written On July 7, 1993 Last Revision on May 13, 1995 ³
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³ For Informational Purposes Only. We're Not Responsible For Your Stupidity. ³
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So there I was stranded in Miami with a broken red box in one hand and an
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outdated list of calling card numbers in the other hand. Just as I was about
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ready to jump to my death in the ocean because I couldn't call my friends, I
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got an idea. Third-party bill my calls to random names in the phone book!
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Of course, I started out using this method on pay phones which is a pain in
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the ass because the operator wants to call up the number you're billing to
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and make sure it's okay with them first. So here's your detailed instructions
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for simplified third-party billing. Oh, and by the way, in no way am I claiming
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to be the elite guy who "discovered" third party. I mean, come on, third party
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billing's been around forever and some guy said I shouldn't take credit for
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something that's been done forever. I'm just trying to explain how easy it is.
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Sheesh, some people! Cactus.
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Finding A Number To Use:
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First of all, if you're going to be calling from home, it's best to charge
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the calls to a different area code than your own. Sure, a local number will
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work but when the people get their phone bill and see a local number on it,
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they'll most likely call it to find out what it is. When they see a long
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distance number they think "Goodness gracious! If I call that number my
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phone bill will even be higher." Even if they do call you, you can just play
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ignorant and if they're far away they probably won't come looking for you.
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Pick a city, any city. The city should be far away in another state. Now dial
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local information and ask for the area code to your city. Let's say you
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picked Waverly, Iowa. The area code is 319. Now dial 1-319-555-1212 to call
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Waverly Directory Assisstance. The charge for this call should only be about
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sixty cents.
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Now think of a very common last name like Smith, Lawrence, Conner, Mitchell,
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Shlappenheimerwinthrop, etc. You get the idea.
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OPER: Directory Assisstance, Betty. What city, please?
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YOU: Waverly.
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OPER: Go ahead.
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YOU: I need the number of a last name Conner.
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OPER: (type, type, type) Okay I have two Conners listed. A Bob and an
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initial H.
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YOU: Bob, yeah that's it. Definately Bob. Bob it is. Gimmie Bob. Yeah, Bob.
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OPER: The number is 452-0357.
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So that's the number you'll bill to. 319-452-0357. Of course if you're
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planning to do this extensively you'll need many more numbers to pick from.
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That's when you call up the phone company and ask for a phone book to be
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delivered to you so you'll have a whole list of numbers to choose from. A
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normal book will cost about $7.00 or so. If you know how to do it right, it
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won't cost you anything but I won't get into that. The phone book will pay
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for itself after about 3 or 4 long distance calls.
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Exchange List:
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If you don't want to go through all the trouble of doing the above, here's a
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list of exchanges you can pick from. I'm including the area code and prefix.
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You just make up four numbers after that at random.
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618-254-xxxx 409-744-xxxx 213-962-xxxx 505-398-xxxx
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318-981-xxxx 314-231-xxxx 513-741-xxxx 503-255-xxxx
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803-254-xxxx 319-452-xxxx 618-377-xxxx 512-441-xxxx
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Making The Call:
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Pretty easy. Dial 0-AREA CODE-NUMBER. You'll hear a cool Bell tone and the
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automated voice will ask you to enter your card number. Press "0" to skip
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that part. Recently, they came out with automated third number billing so you
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don't have to deal with a live operator anymore. Isn't technology great?! The
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automated voice will ask you to "say" how you want to bill your call. Just
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say, "third number" and it'll ask you to touch tone in the number you want to
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charge it to. Dial 319-452-0357 and presto, your call is completed.
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If you get a live operator instead say, "I'd like to charge this to my home
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telephone in Waverly, Iowa, the Turnip capitol of the world." and follow the
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same proceedure.
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Some of the more intelligent people (about 2%) put a third-number block on
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their line. If this happens the recording will say, "This call cannot be
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billed to this number." Solution? Hang up, redial the number and try billing
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it to a different number or just transpose a couple of the numbers you just
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tried.
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If you don't have AT&T as your long distance carrier, dial 10288-0-NUMBER.
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Calling From A Pay Phone:
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As I mentioned before, doing it from a pay phone is a little harder but still
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works. The operator will want to call the person you're billing to a verify
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with them that it's okay to bill it there.
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The trick is to open the phone book at the pay phone and pick a number at
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random. Look for an old person's name because they're the most gullible but
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anyone will do. Let's say you picked Christian Slater 213-962-7142. Dial your
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number as 0-AREA CODE-NUMBER and hit "0" after the tone.
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OPER: AT&T, How may I help you?
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YOU: I want to charge this to my home phone.
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OPER: Will someone be there to accept the charges?
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YOU: Who wants to know?
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OPER: Me.
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YOU: Okay, then, tough guy.
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OPER: What is your name?
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YOU: Christian Slater, you may have heard of me.
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OPER: (dials 213-962-7142. A lady answers the phone. Probably Slater's wife.)
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LADY: Hello?
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OPER: Hello, this is AT&T. Christian is making a call from a public phone and
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wishes to bill the call to you. Will you accept the charges?
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LADY: Oh, yeah, okay. I'll accept.
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And the operator thanks you and puts your call through. As long as you don't
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get any of the following responses you should be okay:
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"Huh? But I'M Christian Slater."
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"Calling from a pay phone?? But he's right here with me watching Cheers!?"
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"Christian died last week."
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"No Hablo Engles??"
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A Few Extra Notes:
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Sometimes if the no one is home at the number you're trying to bill to, you
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can convince the operator that it's really you're number if you know what the
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answering machine message is going to say and if you can do an impression of
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their voice on the machine. Even a bad impression will sometimes work.
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When doing this from home, try not to use the same number more than two or
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three times so the owner of the number will be less likely to investigate.
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I've experienced third-party billing from both sides. Someone charged forty
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dollars worth of calls to my dad's phone and the operators were very
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unhelpful and unfriendly. They refused to investigate even though it was
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comming from a residential line and it took two months to get the charges
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removed. This was back in 1990 but I've been doing this for a few years now
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and people don't seem to care too much at a few calls totaling to under ten
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bucks. I've actually called the people I used and asked them about it and they
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almost always blow it off as a "minor nusience."
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AT&T is completely automated from your home and the best to use. U.S.Sprint
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is the second best because they're not automated but they also don't call and
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verify. M.C.I. sucks because they're losers who verify no matter what so don't
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use them. To choose your company, before you dial the number dial 10288 for
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AT&T or 10333 for U.S. Sprint.
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International calls will be verified no matter what from pay phone or home.
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Hope this file benefits everyone who reads it. It'll sure cut your long
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distance bill down a lot.
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May 13, 1995 Update:
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Well, it seems that AT&T are finally waking up to this problem of third party
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billing...On my local phone bill I was backbilled for $175 worth of third
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party calls. The kicker part is that I called the phone company and complained
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that there were all these extra charges on my bill that I know nothing about
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and they were more than happy to take the charges off. A few weeks later, I
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got a letter from AT&T concerning some more charges...
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Dear Customer,
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We are sending you this letter to advise you of the long distance
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calls we have billed your account. The amount is $53.70, excluding
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taxes. These long distance calls have been investigated by our
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Message Analysis Center and were determined to be your responsibility.
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A list of these calls will appear on a future bill.
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If you would like to discuss this matter, please contact our office
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toll-free at 1-800-522-2157, ext. 4737. Our ofice hours are Moday
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through Friday between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Eastern
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Standard Time.
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Sincerely,
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Dawn Brooks
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Investigator
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I've yet to hear anything more about this but I plan to just ignore the extra
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charges on the bill and complain to the phone company and hopefully I won't
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have to pay. If I do, oh well, it's only fifty bucks.
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Another recent happening is that two people I know have been back billed.
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Martini from Illinois was charged $75 on her bill. "I don't understand what
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this third number means, sir, I only have two lines!" Also, an idiot in Oregon
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was back billed because he had the itelligence to bill to the exact same
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number every single time. Worse yet, the number was in Canada and it was a
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non-working number and the last four digits were 1234. What a cool guy!
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Operator Diverting:
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A new safe way to get around being back billed is to operator divert before
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you get AT&T. It's a pain in the ass and takes a little longer, but it works
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if you really need to call from home and don't have any other way.
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Dial "0" and ask that operator to dial 1-800-225-5288 for you. (AT&T) Tell the
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AT&T operator that you want to place a 3rd party billed call. She'll ask what
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number you're calling from and you give her the number of somebody that you
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don't like so it'll come back on them and not you. Whatever you do, don't give
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her your real phone number.
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