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The U.T.A. presents ...........................
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FREE CALLING FROM PAY PHONES -- IT'S EASIER THAN YOU THINK
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Date of file: August 27th, 1990
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Current U.T.A. members:
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Los Angeles, CA - Impostor, Killer, Slam, Undertaker, Rice Burner
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Sacremento, CA - Ace
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Cleveland, OH - Disposable Hero
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Holland - Mr. Nobody
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West Germany - New Deal
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Denmark - Domination
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U.T.A. was founded on June 26th, 1989. For info on the group, call
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(904) 843-9269 (voice) and leave your handle & a number we can call you
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back at.
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And now.......... our file........
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______________________________________________________________________________
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All of these files outlining how to make free calls from pay phones
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are a bit unrealistic. First of all, they go around telling you to start
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off by unscrewing the handset and start playing with the wires -- a bit
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noticable if you're at a pay-phone where there are any people around. Also,
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why should you trust a file that tells you to open up a phone and play with
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its wires? If you don't do everything right, you can wind up on the floor
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dead. Furthermore, this is 1990, not 1984 (when most of those stupid files
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were written), and a good deal of pay-phones are no longer manufactured or run
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by your local phone company. Such phones are built completely different
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from your standard Bell pay phone, so such methods explained in those other
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files wouldn't work anyway.
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Enough about those other lame files. This file is going to tell you
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SEVERAL WAYS how to make free calls from pay-phones. And none of these
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ways require tampering with the phone or its wires in any way. The only
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thing you'll be touching are the phone's touch tone buttons.
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WAY #1: GOOD OLD FASHIONED PHREAKING
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I hate to write sections for dumbshits like this, but many times the
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obvious is overlooked. *ALL* 950 numbers and 800 numbers should be able to be
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accessed from pay phones in your area if they can be accessed from your house.
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If you're at a lame pay-phone that won't let you dial them, then call the
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operator and have her dial them for you. Also remember that if you have any
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AT&T calling cards, don't hesitate to use them, since pay-phones are the
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only place where they are safe to be abused.
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WAY #2: "I LOST MY QUARTER, OPERATOR"
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Yes, I know, this is sort of lame too, but we're saving the better stuff
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for last. This is probably the most popular method of free calling done by
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little kids, but it'll work for people of any ages. Just dial "0" and say
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that the phone ate your quarter. You'll get a free call put through. It's
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a bit harder to do if you try and convince the operator that the phone ate
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your $2.50 that you put in to call cross-country. However, some operators
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are real stupid, and will either put the call through or offer to mail you
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the money you "lost".
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WAY #3: BILLING TO A VMB
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This method has become very popular lately. Set up your voice mail box
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to say, "ATTENTION, OPERATOR, ALL THIRD PARTY BILLINGS ARE ACCEPTED AT THIS
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NUMBER. I REPEAT, ALL THIRD PARTY BILLINGS ARE ACCEPTED ON THIS LINE FROM
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ANYONE." It may sound stupid, but it's worked for us 100% of the time.
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Make sure that you have a "billable" voice mail box. Many VMB's are "locked
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out" of billings by phone companies. What you have to do is either hack out
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a VMB that is billable (and direct dial) or find someone else that has one
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and bill to his. U.T.A. ran a VMB like that for the months of June and July
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of 1990 and people billed over $10,000 worth of pay-phone calls to that one
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box alone, so you know it works. Also, please note that just because AT&T
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has a VMB "locked out" doesn't mean that a lot of smaller, shittier companies
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have it locked out. A good company to abuse is ITI. You can access them
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by dialing 1-800-288-2880, and then when you hear the dial tone just wait and
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an operator will come on. They are so lame that they don't have the number
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you're calling FROM, but make sure to give them a number in a different
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state than where you're calling TO or they won't put the call through. Most
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VMB systems are NOT locked out of ITI. Watch out, though. ITI has a limit
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of $50 that can be billed to any one phone number, so you're better off
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doing it with AT&T if you can. (Note: Using ITI is also safe from your
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house. They have no form of ANI whatsoever.)
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WAY #4: BECOMING A SCHITZOPHRENIC
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Originally thought up by The Impostor, this way of billing has worked
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for years. First of all, you'll need to know the number of some "dead
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lines". Dead lines are phone numbers that answer before the first ring
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and just sit there. The only noise that they make is a "click" when they
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answer. It's very easy to find dead lines. They are all in the format
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of (213) XXX-1119 and (714) XXX-1119. Just keep trying prefixes in the
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(213) and (714) area code and you're bound to find them. Of the ones you
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find, take note of the ones that make the loudest clicks when they answer.
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Some good ones are (213) 519-1119, (213) 533-1119, and (213) 548-1119, among
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others. After you track down a good deal of dead lines (do this from your
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house beforehand), write them down or remember them. It's always good to
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have a few handy, since the phone companies do "lock out" the ones that
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get abused the hardest. After you have a good dead line in mind, and you're
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at a pay-phone needing to make a free call, dial 0+the number you want to
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call (as if you're calling collect). When the operator comes on, change
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your voice and say that you want to make a third party billing. She'll ask
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you what number you want to bill to, and you give them the number of the
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dead line. Then she'll ask you for a name, and just hand her any BS name
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like "John". *MOST OF THE TIME* the operator will "verify" the billing
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WHILE YOU ARE ON THE LINE! If she does this, listen VERY CAREFULLY for the
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"click" of the dead line. As soon as the dead line "clicks", change your
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voice back to normal and say "Hello?". The operator will think that you are
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the person that owns the phone number (dead line) that you're billing to
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and will ask you if it's "okay" to charge to that number. Of course, you
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say "yes". The operator will say "Thank you, your call is going through now"
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and just to make things more realistic, change your voice back to the fake
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one you put on at the beginning and say "Thank you". After that, YOU'RE
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THROUGH! It may sound complex at first, but once you get it down, it's REAL
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EASY and it works to call ANYWHERE, even INTERNATIONALLY! What you're doing
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here is being BOTH people, the person making the call and the person who
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accepts the charges for the call. Since a dead line just answers and sits
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there, it's a perfect target! Please note that a good deal of operator
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companies will NOT verfiy online. If this happens, then this kind of billing
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will NOT work. AT&T will verify online about 50% of the time. If one AT&T
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operator doesn't do it online, hang up and try again with another operator.
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In some areas, the operators almost always verify off-line, while in others
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they almost always do in on-line. To get an AT&T operator from a non-AT&T
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phone, dial 102880+the area code and number you want to dial. For example,
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if you want to call (213) 555-5555, you dial 102880-213-555-5555 (all at
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one time) to get the AT&T operator to handle the call. For all of you that
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live in the Pacific time zone, you have a gift. The Com Systems operators,
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which can be accessed by dialing 102660, verify online about 90-95% of the
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time. You can even use Com Systems for LOCAL calls by just dialing 102660
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and then TELLING the operator the number you want to call. Please note
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that AT&T and most other Long Distance companies can ONLY be used to make
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LONG DISTANCE (usually 150+ mile away) calls. To make local or local-long-
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distance calls, you'll have to go through your local operator. The good
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news is that most local operators do verify online, but if at first you
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don't succeed, try and try again.
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WAY #5: BILLING TO THE PAY-PHONE NEXT TO YOU
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As stupid as it may sound, billing to the pay-phone next to you is
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sometimes a very easy way to pull off free phone calls from pay-phones.
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First of all, you'll have to check if the phone next to you can receive
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incoming calls. If it doesn't say anything about "NO INCOMING CALLS" on
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the front, it probably does. Next, check that the pay-phone next to you has
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a phone number. If it doesn't, pick up that phone and dial 1-800-666-6258.
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After listening to about 30 seconds of BS, you'll hear the area code and
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number of that pay phone. Next, dial up our old friends ITI, at
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1-800-288-2880. After the dial tone comes on, wait for the operator. As
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mentioned in Way #3, you have to give the number you're calling "from" and to,
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but make sure they are in DIFFERENT STATES. Then when ITI wants to know how
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you want to bill the call, say "Third-Party", and give them the number of the
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pay-phone that's right next to you. ITI will call to "verify" the charges,
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at which time you answer, change your voice, and of course accept the charges.
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Please note that ITI is not as stupid as they were earlier this year (although
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they are still VERY stupid), and they do have a good deal of pay-phones
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"locked out" from billing. But of course, a very large number of pay-phones
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still exist that AREN'T locked out of ITI, so have a ball while you still can.
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______________________________________________________________________________
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Well, there you have it. 5 ways to make free calls from pay-phones that
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are easy and that have been working for a very long time. If you didn't
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understand any portion of this file, go back and re-read it until you
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understand. And as with many things, some of these methods (like #4) take
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practice before you can get them right. But hey, it beats tampering with
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wires and electrocuting yourself, right? If you have any comments about
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this file, or want to join U.T.A. (we're still looking for a few good men),
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then call (904) 843-9269 and leave a message. If by the time you are reading
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this the (904) number doesn't work, then kick yourself in the ass for not
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getting this file sooner. The box shouldn't die anytime soon, though, since
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it's been around since November '89. Give the U.T.A. board OUTER SANCTUARY
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a call at (216) 943-3273. Sysop is Disposable Hero...a U.T.A. member and
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a cool guy.
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(C) 1990 U.T.A. Enterprises
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If you modify this without our permission and distribute it, we'll kick
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yer ass! (fuck this legal bullshit)
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