TAP No. 15 - 1973 Credit Card Code, T Network

Well, it's a new year, and I feel many of you want to know the full story behind YIPL. My name is Al Bell, and a few of us started this on Mayday, in 1971. YIPL is the result of one phone phreak‘s realization that the Military-Industrial Komplex is not just a term you learn in school, but a force that controls the planet Earth from the country America. It became apparert to me that the vast majority of people are being used as pawns, as slaves to make a few multi-million- aires even richer. It's all done through MIC, whose main tactic is Divide and Conquer. Most people don't agree with me, thus proving how effective that tactic is, So people war with each other, and the pigs get richer. And one company bas accumulated such an impressive shelf of pork that this company, more than any other company, represents the robber -barrons that dare to defecate on our world. This company is, in fact, the largest company in the World. Ma Bell is a mother of a fucker. ‘Though we are quite effective in helping people to steal back what is rightfully theirs, and we have also truly given @ veritable kick in the groin, our purpose is mainly to make people think the question, "Why are they ripping off the phone company?", because once they do the answer will be obvious. YIPL members are actors in a play, and the world is watch- ing. And we're having a lot of fun! 1973 looks like the year of the climax. The phone company's on our ass but if they touch us it won't be quietly. A lot of people hate the phone company from down deep, but they've never really given it enough thought to link it with world problems. If YIPL goes on trial, people are going to ask themselves questions, and that's all we want, YIPL has in the past been too difficult to understand, and we're trying to understand. Often we've been technically sim- Pleminded, and we apologise to the numerous geniuses out there who patiently write in and tell us, but we're learning. Basically we're trying to digest the hard stuff, and print in Simpler terms for use by beginners up. But there are lots of things all of us can do. For example, Ma Bells new ways of catching blue boxers will be fouled up if we put in false indications of a BB. One way is to pick up your phone, and all your friends, dial long-distance info, and whistling 2600 The PHONE COM- The PUBLIC ‘This is a picture of the top notes of a standard piano. ‘The E note is 2637 cycles, slightly higher than the long-distance disconnect frequency. Just about everyone has something to offer to a reader- supplied newsletter. Ripoffs, recipes, credit card codes, loop numbers, test numbers, outrageous news, computor Passwords, overseas city codes, impending investigations, and anything else you'd like to share. We're never amazed too much by you people, you're all fantastic. If you're at all worried about being traced, write us on a business or school typewriter. We'll destroy your letter immediately if you want us to. ‘YTPL needs more readers. Okay? Please help us, your- selves, and your friends by having all your fr be now, especially if they're in the midwest, Canada, Florida, Northern New England, and Louisiana, Georgia, Carolina, and Kentucky. We need to round out our distribution. Don't miss the opportunity! There is only one YIPL. Help make it great. The REGULATORY COM= cycles for a second and hanging up. This causes many wasted PANY has its say... is forced to pay... MISSION mumbles "otk." man-hours until they realize it was a false alarm. If we all do this from time to time, the BB detectors will be use~ Several readers have written us regarding last month's less. And don't worry, it's legal to whistle. And fun, too! Your friends will dig doing it, and showing other people how also. 2600, by the way, is the highest "E” on a 88 key Plano. Practice on an info operator, and when you hear a click after your whistle, you've hit it. highway robbery of the American people by AT&T and the Public Screwing Commission, We feel it inappropriate to comment on the rate increase as we are not affected by the new rates. Yippie! A SURE CURE FOR MESSAGE UNITS ‘The major cause of high phone bills are those little message units, The only areas with unlimited outgoing service are the golden ghettos; those who could afford it but don't have to pay. Anyway, you can get around many of those annoying message units with the Black Box, also known as a mute, an Agnew, an incoming device. The versatile YIPL model is the simplest unit you can build, if you haven't done so, get issue no. ll and do it, ‘The Black Box won't Jet you receive calls free unless they are long distance, If they're local, and you answer on "Free" you'll be disconnected in up to 20 seconds. However, many times we call friends just for a second to see if they're home, or to tell them to come down an open the door, or pick them up because their train just arrived. These calls often last less than 15 seconds, but they cost message units, and those Uttle buggers add up. (No offense meant). Here's how todo it ‘When you're expecting your friend to call, flip switch to "Free" and then pick up. The phone will be ringing loudly in your ear, but you'll be able to hear your friend between the READER SUPPLIED Dear YIPL, A good source of overseas info is The International Tele- communications Union, Write for their list of Publications. ITV, Place des Nations, 12ll-Geneva 20, Switzerland. (15¢) I recommend a)List of operator phrases, b)Instructions for international tele. service, c)List of telephone routes, and d)List of telephone cables. Dear folks, . If you want a great catalog of telephone equiptment entitled, ironically, "Control by tones" write to Bramco Controls Division, Ledex, Inc. , and South St. , Piqua, Ohio, 45356 or phone 513 773-8271. Ask for catalog 303 and Bull- etins 201 and 204, Tell them you saw it advertised in Tele- Phony, It contains every possible tone the phone company uses and their EJA code. Keep up the good work, R.A., ‘Tucson, Arizona Dear Phellow Phreax, ‘Two queries for you. First: Lets say I wanted to call a transit country. Dow I need KP2. How do I go about using it? Seconé How do I verify a line once the operator plugs me into a no-test trunk? OH Oh yes! The "Public" service Commission (should be the Public Screwing Commission) has O, K'd a teico regulation that 4f you ge two lines in your house, they must be the same type of service. They won't let you get an unlimited and a regular fone. Either one or the other, Must make more bux, you know, One more thing; If you want to get equiptment, any kind that's used in a home, (touch-tone, trim-line, speaker-phone, card dialer, etc.) get a friend, or yourself, who is moving in a few weeks to have a bunch of goodies installed. If it gets stolen after you move, its not your fault. Ma Bell eats tricky dick, X. One reader reports that he built a black box and 10,000 ohms was too low to disconnect in his area. If anyone has doubt of their area, test your black box as in the instructions(issue 11). Simply pick up your phor.2, and when you get a dial tone, switch to "Free", If the dial tone stops, cool, otherwise use a higher resistor, like 12,000 ohms, or 15,000 ohms. Try not to go lower than 10, 000 ohms. . For the "Keep up the good work department": SF Bay Area- Identification number 640, Sometimes plant rings. They should loudly give their message, between the rings, and hany up, You can answer them if you want, Even if the phone is tapped, the beauty of this system is that those listening can't tell if the two of you are simply on extensions at the calling party's house! And since your friend hangs up before you answer, of course there is no charge, Sure, this isn't for long conversations, but it's easy, fun and saves money on those little messaye units. Even though a special, expensive test unit can detect a black box on your line if they know you already have one, it won't detect it at all if you use it like this for under two minutes, or fifteen ings, Don't hesitate to try it if you have a message unit problem each month, Our black box plans are so easy that anyone, and you too, can build it for one dollar in 30 minutes. ‘When calling to see if stores are open, friends are home, etc., hang up the second you hear the phone answered and you won't have to pay for the call, EVEN IF THE CALL IS LONG DISTANCE, Works great from pay phones, all of them! Just think, you may never answer your phone again! INFORMATION Personnel answer and ask caller to identify self, and then they connect you to computor who reads back your number. Sometimes only during daytime. Ident(Reno)-444, Lake Tahoe- 21, SF Bay Area touchtone check is 960-then last 4 digits of your line. When you hear dial tone dial 1 through 0. If tones and levels correct, "beep-beep" will follow. Dial 2 and hang up, and will ring tack, If it is true that Bell is making a record of incoming calls to called numbers ringing for more than 5 minutes, this can be an invitation to really bug them by calling (locally) assor- ted places-stores at night, outdoor pay phones, etc, Let them ring endlessly and they'li make needless printouts or te up equiptment doing so. Unable to confirm that they're doing this but at least they're experimenting with it. Recent trick locally if they have you under suspicion is to have a foreman accompany installer or repairn:an to your Place. Joker is really a security agent and have been known to leave radio bugs on premises, not on phone line. I know of one concealed behind head board in bedroom to get "pillow- talk". Never allow more than one installer on place, or if you have reason not to allow them to enter-someone sick, scarlet fever, etc. Walnut creek Cal. service desk order recorder 415 937+ 2762, Codeafone recorder that answers to repairman to call in their time of day ending. These model 700 codeafones will keep recording as long as voice signal incoming. They can be bugged by playing music for max, 45 minutes to fill up tape which they have to wade thru to check for regular info, Cheap way to get 2 lines in your home at lowest cost in Cal, Get a one party flatrate, Have it put on "vacation rate" which good to max. 7 months that can then be extended indefinitely, Possibility little argument with business office rep that you're on vacation. Use line for outgoing call, at half price. Then order @ one party "survival fone"which allows 30 mu. Have the one party flatrate unlisted. The 30 mu. listed and for incoming calls will cost $2.25/mo, The flatrate is $4.80; vacation rate $2. 40, Thus you get two lines(one 2-way and one outgoing only) for $4. 65. That's less than the flatrate two-way. Of course the 30 mu. can be used for outgoing, no extra charge up to 30. Only catch is the "survival" fone not supposed to be in same "living quarters" as other fones, but have it installed in extra bedroom that belongs to a boarder or to your "Aunt Minnie", Have them installed at different times, TELEPHONE DECODER Model 250 Universal Telephone Decoder features automatic printout of both Touch-Tone and rotary dial signals, Instrument records date of call, off-hook time, on-hook time, and responds to asterisk and keyboard symbols whenever these special functions are utilized. Printed indication of the of 2600 Hz tones is available optionally. Speciat Features: Model has Bolarity-independent input <ir- cuitry, je line loading intenally’p protected against high voltage line transients, VOICEPRINT LABORATORIES, Why not call some manufacturers and tell them where to go? Other anti-phone phreak devices are manufactured by Hekimian Labs, 322 N. Stonestreet Ave. , Rockville, Md. Tel: 301 424-3160. Also Teltronics, P,O, Box 13, Lakeland Fla, 33802. Tel:813 683-7409. The Teltronics device only detects 2600 pulses greater than 0.1 second, but the Hek- iman device prints out any number you dial with a Blue Box after it detects 2600 cycles on the line. Though the device has only one line capacity, it can be put on the outgoing lines of a Central Office, and any one of the 10, 000 lines will turn the device on and record the number boxed. Of course a phoney credit card call will also give them the number dialed, and we get away with those all the time. But make sure that if you call friends with a box, they should not use a box on their line, and don't stay on long enough to be traced. DESTRUCTORY ASSISTANCE YIPL is starting a new service for its readers, If you send us information, preferably printed matter, or your own plans, etc., we will send you back other information, If you want a specific type of info, let us know and we'll try, but we have almost nothing right now. Otherwise, we'll send you random information such as would be printed in YIPL; the same amount that you send us. However, you must send us a stamped, self-addressed envelope to hold as much info as you send us. This is going to be a great way to increase your own library of useful and useless info. Try itt BUILD A°T’ NETWORK FOR FUN & PROFIT If you live or work near a pay phone, then you might have an excellent opportunity waiting for you. It's called the T network, and it gives you back your money after a phone call. There are many variations, but right now we'll explain how it works and the simplest way to do it. ‘The pay phone stores your money, either to return it or to deposit it, depending upon whether a + or a - pulse of 180 volts is sent to the phone. The pulse is sent down both the red and green wires and returns to ground through the yellow or the black wires, sometimes both. These wires are in a thin cable usually running along the wall near the Phone. In an inconspicuous way, carefully slice along the wire , exposing the 4 wires. Move the red and green wires out of the way, and cut the black and yellow wires, then strip off 3/4" of insulation from all four cut ends, Tie the Y& B on the phone side together, and do the dame for the other pair. ‘Touch the two twisted pairs together now, and dial direct a long distance call, When the operator comes on, deposit the amount she asks for, While talking to your friend, discon~ nect the two pairs, because after approximately 2 minutes and 40 seconds, the pulse will come to collect your initial deposit, However, the pulse will no longer be able to flow ‘through the phone because you disconnected the ground wires. It's best to hang up when the operator comes on after 3 minu-- tes and says "End of initial period, signal when through". Now wait to make sure another pulse doesn't collect your money, for at least ten seconds. Then pick up the phone again, and re-conncct the wires. You will get a dial tone, so hang up and JACK POT, all your money will come down again. Since the phone company usually kncws how much there should be in the phone at collection time, they will notice something amiss. However, you can pull this off for a few months and up to a few hundred dollars in calls and then be sure never to do it again, because if they find your broken wires, they'll stakeout the phone to catch you. Best to de it for only 4 weeks and then stop for 6 months, Keep wires securely twisted together when not in use, so phone works 0. k. LAST CHANCE! "Steal This Book" by Abbie Hoffman, the most contr-versial book of our time is being called off sale because the distrib- utor ended up stealing the bread. We have 500 copies left. Price $2. 50(includes postage)-50 books-$55.00. Pirate Editions, 640 Broadway, N. ¥.,N. Y. 10012 fly — Zohn Draper, alleged to be Captain Crunch, pleaded no contest —— to Toll Fraud charges on Noverr.Ser 28 and received a $1000 fine AEA ana 5 years probation, John's glad the whole thing is over, even though the plea bargaining was a little unfairly balanced. Anyway — the real Captain Crunch informs us that the busy test for San Jose is 1999, and that if any of our readers getting an overseas trunk by dialing KP Oll XXX ST they should realize that on will oily work on IOTC accessable lines, such as N, Y, or California information. Most 800 numbers will not accept Oll. The Captain also says that stacking trunks is now too dangerous and has no BACK ISSUES 50¢ useful purposes. 1 1- Extensions, conference switches 973 CREDIT CODE 2 Blue Box Story and Abbie on ripofis New! The New Credit Card Code is the same as last year's 3- Telecommand Story except the code letters are different and the letter stands ~ 4- Pay Phone Issue - for the 7th digit(last) of the telephone number. 5~ Blue Box 12 Now obsolete Example-941-5430-126N-Honeywell of Minneapolis. 6- Blue Box URW ELK HA ZN ‘7- Tuning your organ 12 3 45 67 8 9 0 8- Credit card calls(1972) Follow the number of a pig corporation with the code 9- Super duper project Issue 1) number for the city it's in, Add the letter for the last 10- digit of the phone number and read our Credit Card Ul- Receive long distance calls FREE fact sheet, 12- Blue Box Plans ‘That's all there is to it! 13- International Calls N, Y. -072, 074, 021 L, A. =182 Detroit-096, 083 4-International Calls + AT&T Papers AWanta-035 Boston-001 Houston-151 Miami-044 1$- This issue Klutz! FACT SHEETS-~ 25¢ How not to get caught making credit card calls British Phone System Receiving long distance calls free(Issue 11) ANTI-BELL BUTTON- 50¢ 10/$3. 00 Rigged For Free Calls TAP, Room 504, 162 W. 42 8t,,N.¥. ,N.¥, 10036 Our mailing address~- Never send cash to us. en I Can change maa 0 st Published for informational purposes only cold mike eal al ver the worl for fre by Youth Hot Line Reports, Inc. ode FREE MONEY Bol they fear the phastom has already wired up other cities cinch tw If your address has a number less than 6 next to it, you should aan tes may be mere ea or your renew your subscription with $2. If you don’t, someone(like the they believe editor) will end up paying for it. If you don't have bread, write us I “This i 0 serious sational probiers.” a Post Office spokes: and we'll renew you anyway. man caid. “We are making investigations in other towns all ‘over the coumtry to get to the bottom ofthis trans.” ‘The Bath aftr was the first “dial 2 isle” fraud in- vestigators bad cracked. ‘They found that the Kingshead exchange inthe histor city, TAP,152 W. 42 ST, ROOM 418, NY 10036 ‘which dates hack to Roman Times, had been iegally wired and ‘that af least 2,080 students a1 the university there knew about it. Investigators installed » monitor that enabled thera to trace the legal cais and trap aise etadents. Each was fined 2 now! 15 tal two pots, or H.7, Lak week for “dishonestly obtaining electricity trom the Post Office.” tne apecal dating code that activated the boot-ap to obeals an ‘pea Tie to anywhere im the world without the call being regis- tered, Police said the secret ctreait was “ectensvely wsed.” ‘The presiint of (he sxiverity’s Stxucot Union Bill Moser, sai: "Ita about everyone here knew tbe code. “ats born going om for a toms thme and it seems the Post Ovtice ie i operating to try to catch the people responsible fur arting Chere. But they 9a the wrong people.” Petice mid there was “tagaffcient evidence at this stage to eatuilieh the Mextity of the person ur persons responsible.” tom