TAP No. 8 - Credit Card Calls / 1972 Code

Blue Box Fans! Want a groovy new way to send your beeps into the pay phone downstairs, with lower distortion, and less risk of be- ing overheard? An induction coupler, Model PC-48,$9.95 each, is available from Trinetics,Inc. 807 W. 3rd St.,Mishawaka, In. 46544. It slips over the ear- piece(that's right) and can also ick up conversations for taping. Bat keep at least a speaker jack on your box for tuning, because tuning a box over a phone line, even on a local phone call, is definitely not cool. Credit for the Credit Card Code Article inside must be given to you readers, and to the news- papers around the country that are risking their neck printing it up, we say thanx. Which again proves if we contribute to each other, we all benefit. Keep sending in suggestions for the following: Corporation ripoffs, establish- ment fucks, healthful hints, names and addresses of our friends who wish to be known, new ser- vices, new outrages,new devices and plans for them. You're having trouble with find- ing #14 Brass washers (dime-size) and we know about it. Some stores have them listed as 1/4" I.D., or as 11/16" 0.D. washers. Some will refuse to sell to freaks, so have your respectable-looking friends go in and play plumber, or call in orders and then play messenger. Send us results, and all of you do a study on where they work, what machines require tape over the hole and stuff like that. We're compiling material for an article on using, making and living on slugs. Get with it! us (F THE Gov- ERNMENT Desyy STOP (T, WELL WE stop Te LETTER S38 Here's a suggestion for YIPL readers: One very good way to obtain extra phones is to get them out of empty apartments from non-phreek friends who have had their phones disconnected but not removed. Here in Gainesville Ma Bell doesn't remove phones from empty apartments until new tenants move in and order their own phones. The servicemen simply take what's there, and if its not there it doesn't matter because Ma Bell doesn't keep good records in Gainesville and probably most other collegetowns where people are moving all the time. G.P.,Gainesville, Fla. Dear YIPL, ...+.+LOVERS LETTER is a monthly public- ation offering practical, realistic advice for men on the art of love. LOVERS LETTER tells where to find girls, how to approach them and how to make them like you. We also give frank advice on how to extablish satisfying love/sex relationships. A sub- scription is $10/yr. LL publishing Co., Box 5834-H, Bethesda,Md. 20014. -YIPL readers- We checked this out and if its in your pipe it ain't too bad. If you want, free further details are available on how to sell subscriptions. IMPORTANT NOTICE There is a credit card system used by the phone company called the Code Billing sys- tem. A sample number is 014-5742-019. The first number must be 0 or 1l,and the last three numbers must be between 001-499.Say to the operator "Code billing operator.My number is If they ask what company it is, make one up,.or hang up. Of course, call from a booth. This is under test now, so let us know what happens.,......, Y.I.P.L.: Rip offs that whag you are, I send you a check,you cashed it and never send me anything. I hate getting rip off by anyone, and I'm going to do all that I can to let the people know what you are. This is the fourth letter that I haved send you, you had haved more that enough time to fix everything. Well this the last letter that I will send you, and I hope you enjoy all your going to get.Rip off! R.N.,Bronx,N.Y. Friends: I'm a high school student in N.J. and one day last week they herded us all into the auditorium were this very straight dude from N.J. Bell proceed- ed to give us a speech about all the ~ wonderful things we have to thank them for(Better living thru Ma Bell). The only reason I can see for this propog- anda is that they realized how bad kids are fucking them and they have decided to nip this conspiracy in the bud. But the real reason I wrote this is that I went up to the stage and asked this robot to say a few words about a real scientific advancement, the blue box. He said that he didn't want to hear it and started to walk away so I started to tell people about it. This got him very uptight and he came back and told everyone that the blue box would soon be obsolete because Ma Bell was plan- ning to vary the tone frequencies from area to area and make it impossible to break out of the area. I don't really understand this but I thought I'd tell you to see if it is bullshit or not because those fuckers have me worried that the toy organ I'm building will soon be of limited usefulness.Yours truly a hopelessly para- noid reader. -Our opinion of this statement by N.J.Bell is that to vary tone frequencies will cost an incredible amount, require that all em- Ployees be back at work to make the change, would necessitate changing every single multifrequency sender in the country. In other words, it's possible, but to try to do it without raising rates and spending time, possibly years, is not. So build your organ and the fact that you will no longer contribute to their treasury will serve to prolong the changeover.-Ed. Dear Yip-Line- I just tried to make a long distance call from a public telephone to order Mexican 10 centavo pieces-which work in pay phones a quarters. I was just about to dial the number and insert the few 10 centavo pieces I had left when | noticed that the dial had been ripped off. I have not commented on public issues in a long time but I believe that people who rip dials off pay Phones are hurting their brothers and sisters more than the telephone company. Alexander Graham Bell Dear Y.I.P.L., If any of you out there still eat meat, here's a helpful hint on getting the best and/or the biggest piece for the cheapest price possible. Everyone knows we can't shoplift or steal-the price we pay is too large if you're caught. So just take the best piece of meat and the cheapest piece, carefully peel the price label off the cheaper one and sti it on the good one. Return the one you don't want, and smile sweetly at the ca lady as the stuff goes through. Fuck th establishment-I love you Y.1.P.L. K&B, Florida. Dear YIPL- Here's 3 bucks-all we can afford now bu enough to ask you to please start sendi our issues -in covered envelopes; we're getting a few hassles unnecessarily(sma town-P.0. workers are buddies to cops, etc.) and we hope a few dollars for you will help.Power to the people. L&W From C. Aicago Tribune ; Feb. tp He Had Their Number A Los Angeles man who figured out how to tap himself inte Pacifie Telephone Company's computer by using his push button phone was arrested Tuesday for stealing nore than $1 million worth of the com any’s equipment. Police ald Jerry N. Schneider, 21, had been ordering the com- puter to have equipment sent to a company warehouse where he had acquired keys, and he picked it up in the early mors- fag hours before warehousemen arrived. The gambit be- came so successful, police said, that Schneider ‘started his own business selling telephone equipment, and had hired 10 employes to help him, 1972 CREDIT CARD CODE PREFIX \ ee] EXAMPLE - 777-331 OAS (ITT, NEW York CITY) The New 1972 Credit Card Code is the same old shit. However, instead of the 6th digit being used to determine the code letter, it is now the 4th. And the ten code letters are different. Take note and pass the word along to friends, university billboards, local newspapers, and as extra items on your schools announcements. This is, of course, to discourage any degenerates who would attempt to rip off Ma Bell. They will realize that when they do it, everybody will be doing it, and it won't be fun. 1-2 ANANTA -035 MAMI = =— O¥% 5-8 Brewery - 167 MINN. — 126 +-8 WoRTH NS. O91, OTF 5-0 BOSTON - OO! NEW MEXICO — 105 6-H HICAGO, — OV. NEW YORK CITY ~072,07%, 1 Me ae ari wo - At t viciniry) Oa! 8— bETROIT — 3 Puna. — OF! qa-A M ° oe PITTS. — 030 ck @Q BO dy OUST ON - SAN. FRAN, - 158 sh PCI APD (6 Los ANeELES — 182 WASH. D.C. 7032 € TIPS: At night (5pm to Mid.) the majority of the pig operators are working ng and your chances of running into one is greater. Avoid peak calling periods. They might question you and stuff like that, in which case hang up, or if asked the number calling, say that its a phone booth(which it should be) Don't continually use the same phone booth, or the same credit card number, or call at the same time or same day. It's easy to vary your schedule. Known phony credit card numbers are kept on a PHONY LIST, so keep changing the number, gang. If you call in the Atlanta area, the operators there have a list of all possible telephone prefixes for that area. A credit card number having a 035 along with a prefix that is non-existant in Atlanta is obviously phony. Make sure your prefix in the number exists in the area of your code. Just because you get your call through, don't think your done. The oper- ator may come on the line silently to verify the call, or she may simply stay on for a few seconds to see that you got through. If you gave her a rubber number and she knows it, she may let the call go through just so her supervisor can get on the line to invade your privacy, tape record the conversation, trace your calling number, and later bust you. So don't say right out to your friend,"Hey, man, I just used a phoney credit card number" If you call someone, make sure they know what to tell them when and if they contact him/her about the call. Have your friend say"I'm sorry operator but many people use this phone, and I get so many calls its hard to remem- ber, but [ think his first name was Steve, and he called from Cincinnati." (They already know the city, so you aren't helping them but sound sincere). Never give a last name, or his phone number. Be real polite, if they are. But refuse to pay if they bill you. Note your phony calls down so you can see if they pull something like that. Refusing to pay leaves you in very good shape of ending up paying. And by the way, they might look through old phone bills to see who called in the past, and they might say that so-and-so called you and you should admit it. Well, DON'T ADMIT IT. They're only guessing. If they knew they wouldn't bother calling you, now would they? For those of you who can't take it any longer and are planning on moving to Canada, you might be interested to know that there are a goodly number of YIPLs there already. You might also want to get a copy of The Canadian Whole Earth Almanac, 341 Bloor St. West, Room 208, Toronto, Canada for the sum of $3, or a years subscription for $9. Community Television work is being done in Canada by Videotech,111 Sparks St., Ottawa, Ontario. Write them. 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Furthermore, the post office would be forced to stop using the dumb machines to pestmark letters and to handcancel instead, thus forcing the hiring of twelve million workers and ending unemployment in this country, which would in turn cut down profits to the nice folks who brought you Attica and Hiro- shima. No, we can't have that happen. So be good little automatons and put the stamp right up in the corner there, where Robby the Robot and his pal Dicky can put their good seal of approval on it. We'll be back sometime in the near future with an article you will find well worth waiting for, we hope. Till then.....A subscription to YIPLis $2/yr, and back issues are 50¢ each. We will give you a free subscription if you really cannot afford it, and that's why we cost what we do. If you can afford it, send us bread and stamps, please. 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