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!|!|! Public Phone Crashing !|!|!
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!|!|! From The Infidel !|!|!
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!|!|! 9/18/87 !|!|!
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Yes, you read this right, Public phone crashing. This is a trick that
works NOW on ESS not like those other philes you d/l and expect to find out all
this /<ool stuff, just to learn it only works on Crossbar. The only drawback is
that this trick only works on rotary or pulse phones - which are now becoming
somewhat rare with the conversion of the rotaries to touch tone. But this will
also work on pulses and rotaries in someone's home, so if ya have someone
ya really want to phuck over, this is the way to go.
Ok, there seems to be a little bug in the zero plus (0+) numbers handler
of ESS. (For those not familiar with zero plus numbers, they are numbers which
follow the format 0-NPA-prfx-xxxx.) Now, upon dialing a zero plus number, you
get a tone and the you can either dial 0 for assistance, or enter your calling
card number. (DON'T phuck with these!) Now if you don't enter a touch tone, the
operator will come on whether you like it or not. But.... yes, BUT, sometimes,
before you hear the tone which prompts for the calling card, you'll hear some
noise which lasts for only a second. When you get this, and if you're on a
pulse phone where you can't enter a 0 or the card number with touch tones, the
card promt tone will repeat itself every few seconds INDEFINITELY!!!!
NY Telco seems to be onto this bug since it's happening less and less
often, yet as of the printing of this phile it still does occur.
Another trick is for privately owned pay phones. Everyone knows (and
hates) that you have to pay for Directory Assistance. Now on a privately owned
pay phone, by dialing 0-NPA-555-1212, the assistance is free (remember zero
plus numbers are used in collect call handling) so in effect, the Directory
Assistance operator that answers gets charged for the call and the assistance
fee. So even if ya don't have a pay phone (don't ask me why ya should - some
stores do, though), phuck around with it on regular pay phonez, cuz it might
screw something up in the billing somewhere. The only drawback is that the
caller must be in the area he is calling DA for. For instance, the caller for
NYC must be calling DA for NPAs 718, 212 or 516 from one of those NPAs.
Remember, long distance Directory Assistance is, by nature, free.
If you have any other phreaking info, I can be reached at The Lost City
BBS 718-531-5928, an awesome *Elite only* phreaking/hacking/pirating board and
leave me E-mail.
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