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PRIVATE PAYPHONES #4
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Hiya. Here again with Lesson 4 of Phreaking Private Payphones: Dirty Tricks.
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Dirty Tricks involve things you can do to piss off the owners of a private
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payphone (you know, the ass that won't refund your quarter even though you
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know he owns the store and the phone). 1. The Oyster Trick. This one is
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particularly disgusting. Materials required: 1 gooey, slimey oyster (the
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slimier the better!) and 1 piece of A.B.C. gum. (already been chewed).
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Put the piece of gum at the very bottom of the coin return chute and stuff
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it down into the oyster drain hole there. Then, put the oyster in the coin
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return, and leave. Come back later that day and remove 1 gooey oyster and
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shitloads of change that people were too grossed out to retrieve. If the
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owner of the phone gets a handful, oh well. 2. The Balloon Trick. This one
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is similar to the oyster trick but you use a balloon to block the coin return
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chute by inflating it very little and stuffing it up the thing. Later come
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back and prick the balloon, and jackpot! - Both Tricks 1 and 2 annoy the
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owner by causing customers not to receive their change back, causing com-
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plaints to the owner, and possibly a service call. By the way, Tricks 1 and
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2 also work on Bell Payphones... 3. The "Dead Phone" Trick. This one only
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works because the general populace is too stupid to listen for dialtone before
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inserting the Quarter. Step 1, locate the conduit described in the last
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installment carrying the power to the phone. Cut the 2-4 wires carrying the
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power. (Usually 12-48 V.D.C., though be careful! some phones use 110 A.C.!!)
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anyhow all day the idiots come up to the phone, pick up the handset, put
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in a Quarter, and gulp! the phone has no power, so not only is there no
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dial tone, but it can't activate the coin relay to return the Quarter! Later
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that day, come back and reconnect the power, and make a call, but hang up
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before anyone answers and JACKPOT! All the change hung up in the coin relay
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comes back down the coin return. Do this a couple of times until the relay
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is clear of coins. Some phones automatically eat on power-up, so this may
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not work, but if it does, it may not get all the coins in the relay. This
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Trick will most usually generate a service call, and when the tech gets there,
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there won't be any problem! - (snicker). In the next Lesson, we'll get into
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HACKING payphones!!! - YES, HACKING! - most private payphones have internal
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MODEMS! - those that do not are remotely controlled by DTMF's instead of
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carrier modems, but can also be hacked. Well, Until Later.
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