%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % % % BIG SECRETS.....VOLUME #2 % %___________________________________% % % % BY -> THE WYVERN/300 (LUB % % % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% ADVENTURERS TAVERN: 714/538-3103 THE DARK FOREST WEST: 805/682-5148 _____________________________________ > PREFACE < >=-=-=-=-=< IN BIG SECRETS VOLUME 2 WE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT: THE VOID POP UP, THE MAGNETIC STRIP ON CREDIT CARDS, AND THE POST OFFICE. > THE VOID POP UP < >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=< WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU XEROX SOMETHING YOUR NOT SPOSED TO? LIKE MONEY, STOCK CERTIFICATE, OR CUPONS...WELL THE COPY USUALLY COMES OUT ALL YUCKY HUH? BUT...IF YOU USE A GOOD COLOR COPIER YOU CAN USALLY PRODUCE A GOOD , CONVINCING COUNTERIFT. THE VOID POP UP IS WHAT TRIES TO STOP ALL THIS FROM BEING DONE. ITS A SECRET GIMMICK MADE TO WASTE ALL US COUNTERFITERS. WHEN THE DOCUMENT IS COPIED THAT CONTAINS THIS GIMMICK A BIG 'VOID' WILL POP UP. THE VOID IS HARD TO SEE, BUT THE PEOPLE WHO USE IT THINK THAT IT MUST TAKE ALOT MORE GUTS TO PASS AROUND IT EVEN WITH A HARD TO SEE VOID THEN WITHOUT IT. THE AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY INVENTED THIS VOID POP UP DEAL, BUT THEY DIDNT PATTEN IT. SO EVENYONE DECIDED TO USE IT THEMSLEVES. ITS BECOME A COMMON SECURITY DEVICE FOR MOST MEDIUMS...LIKE KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN, BANKS AND OTHER THINGS. THE VOID POP UP USES A SCREEN - SOME DOTS THAT ONLY APPEAR AS A GREY PASTEL SHADE. THE ONLY THING THAT SHOWS A DIFFERENCE IS HOW DARK THE GREY IS. BUT IT DEPENDS, THE BIGGER THE AREA THE 'VOID' POP UP COVERS THE DARKER THE GREY. TWO SCREENS COULD LOOK DIFFERNT FROM THE HUMAN EYE, ONLY BECUASE THEY GREY WAS PUT ON TOP OF ANOTHER COLOR OR BY ANOTHER COLOR. ONE OF THE SCREEN PRINTS THE 'VOID' AND THE OTHER MAKES THE BACKROUND FOR THE LETTERS TO SHOW UP ON. SEE, A XEROX MACHINE SEES DIFFERNTLY THEN A HUMAN EYE DOES. ONE OF THE SCREENS IS CHOOSEN SO THE CONFIG. DOTS WILL BLEED TOGETHER WHEN COPIED. THE SCREEN COMES OUT DAKRER AND IN DIFFER QUALITY, LEAVING THE 'VOID' VISIBLE. BUT WAIT, THE SYSTEM IS NOT FOOLPROOF, BECUASE COPIERS VARY. SO THE VOID IS SHOWN CLEARLY ON SOME MACHINES AND HARDLY NOTICLABLE ON OTHERS. OCCASIONALY YOU CAN SEE A FAINT VOID ON THE ORIGINAL. SO THE POOR PEOPLE WHO DONT EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT CAN GET IN TROUBLE FOR NOT EVEN DOING ANYTHING . THERE ARE SOME SCREEN ATTACHMENTS FOR SOME COPIERS WHICH WILL DEFEAT THE VOID POP UP SYSTEM, THEY WILL MAKE A CLEAN COPY. THIS IS BAD FOR THE PEOPLE THAT USE THE VOID POP UP TECHNIQUE, BECUZ IN THE FUTURE THE COPIERS WILL JUSTGET BETTER AND BETTER WHICH MEANS THEY WILL PROBABLY HAVE TO COME UP WITH A NEW IDEA TO DEFEAT THEM. HA! THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TOO SO THEY ARE NOT IN TROBULE THEY CAN STILL FIND WAYS TO STOP ILLICT PHOTO COPYING. THE 'PROSPECTS/NEW BOOK NEWS' IS A NEW YORK NEWSLETTER, IT IS PRINITED ON RED PAPER. RED SHOWS UP NEARLY BLACK ON BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTO COPIERS SO IT WOULD BE QUITE HARD TO READ HUH? BUT 'PROSPECTS' COUL D BE COPIED ON A COLOR COPIER, AND THE BLACK-N-WHITE MACHINES THAT HAVE RED FILTERS. A LIGHT BLUE WILL NOT SHOW UP ON COPIERS THO SO IN ALOT OF PUBLICATIONS THEY WILL NOW USE A TYPE OF LIGHT BLUE PEN TO WRITE IN. HERES WHAT COMPUTERWORLD SAID ABOUT THE LIGHT BLUE PRINT: THE DINERS CLUB, WHOSE ACCOUNTINMG SYSTEM HAS BEEN ATTACKED BY PEOPLE TRYING TO KEEP THIER ACCOUNTS STRAIGHT HAS FOUDN AWAY TO KEEP THE COMPLAINT LEVEL DOWN -- ESPECIALLY THE KIND THAT ARE COPIED TO VARIOUS FEDREL AND STATE AUTHORITIES. IT WONT STOP THE COMPLAINTS ENTIRLY BUT WILL REDUCE THEEFECTIVNESS IN MANY CASES. WHAT THE DINERS CLUB DID WAS REDISIGN THE FORMS, PRINITNG MUCH OF THE DATA IN A NON-REPRODDUCTING BLUE. AS A RESULT, AFTER IT WAS STUCK IN THE COPY MACHINE THE OUTPUT IS UNREADABLE, AND CERTAINLY NOT VERY EASY TO READ BY THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO! BUT ACCORDING TO HE DINERS CLUB THE LIGHT BLUE WAS JUST A COINCIDENCE, THE LOGO WAS BLUE. > THE POST OFFICE < >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=< DID YOU REALIZE THAT THE POST OFFICE IS NOW RUN BY COMPUTERS, NOT ALL OF IT BUT ALOT OF PARTS. COMPUTERS NOW CHECK TO MAKE SURE A STAMP IS THERE, THEY DO THE STAMPING AND ALL THAT..TERRIBLE HUH? WELL NO, ITS ACTUALLY VERY GOOD FER US, SEE THE COMPUTER HERE ONLY KNOWS HOW MANY STAMPS SHOULD BE PUT ON THE PACKAGE OR LETTER BY HOW MUCH IT WEIGHS, SO YOU SAY BIG DEAL?! WELL SEE THAT IS *ALL* IT KNOWS, WHICH MEANS YOU CAN PUT A ONCE CENT STAMP ON YOUR LETTER AND BE SURE TO DROP IT DIRECTLY INTO A U.S. MAIL BOX, THE GUY WILL COME AND PICK THEM UP AND DROP THEM IN THE LETTER BIN...THERE THEY ARE WEIGHED AND SENT DOWN INTO THE COMPUTER AND THAT WILL STAMP THEM AND ALL THAT. WELL THE COMPUTER DOES NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A 5 CENT STAMP, 1 CENT STAMP , OR 20 CENT STAMP, IT JUST MAKES SURE ONE IS THERE AND IF SO STAMPS IT. SO JUST THINK IF THE ENTIRE P.O IS SOMEDAY RUN BY COMPUTERS HOW EASY IT WILL BE TO GET YOUR LETTERS PALCES. BUT FER THE TIME BEING YOU CAN USE THAT TECHNIQUE AND HERE ARE A FEW OTHERS: 1) PUTTING THE RETURN ADDRESS OF THE PERSON YOU ARE MAILING IT TO AS I MEAN ON THE RETURN ADDRESS THING IN THE TOP CORNER, THEN MAKE UP A ADDRESS FOR THE SEND TO: PART, DONT PUT A STAMP ON IT DROP IT IN A U.S. BOX AND THE PERSON WHO HAD THEIR RETURN ADDRESS THIER WILL GET IT. 2) PUTTING A COAT OF THIN GLUE OR SOMETHING LIEK THAT OVER THE STAMP WILL MAKE IT REUSABLE, WHEN STAMPED IT WILL HIT THE GLUE, WASH IT OFF WITH WARM WATER AND POOF! A NEW STAMP. 3) THIS IS THE SLOWEST WAY OF ALL BUT ITWORKS, OUR GOVERMENT HAS MADE A DEAL WITH THE HANDICAPPED THAT THEY WILL SEND THIER LETTERS 3RD CLASS FOR FREE, AND THEY DO THAT! JUST PUT 'MATTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED' OR SOMETHING WHERE THE STAMP BELONGS. > THE CREDIT CARE - MAGNETIC STRIP < >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-< HERE IS ONE MORE OF THE SECURITY DEVICES ONA CREDITCARD, THE MAGNETIC STRIP. MOST PEOPLE THINK THERE ARE ALL THESE PERSONAL DETAILS AND STUFF ON THE MAGNETIC STRIP. BUT THE MAGNETIC HAS NO MORE INFO THEN A BLANK TAPE. THE STRIP NEED NOT CONTAIN ANY INFO EXCEPT FOR THE ACCOUNT NUMBER OR SIMILAR ID. WITH THE ACCOUNT NUMBER THE COMPUTER CAN JUST BE CALLED UP AND INFO BE TAKEN OUT...SO THERE IS NO NEED TO PUT IT ON THE STRIP. ALSO, THE EXPERATION DATE IS ON THE STRIP. EXPIRED CARDS ARE 'EATEN' BY AUTO-TELLER MACHINES EVEN WHEN THE EXPIRED CARD HAS THE SAME ACCOUNT # AND NAME AS ITS REPLACMENT CARD. CREDIT LINIT, ADDRESS, PHONE #, EMPLOYER, ETC.. MUST NOT BE INDICATED IN THE STRIP, FOR BANKS DO NOT GIVE OUT NEW CARDS JUST CUZ THIS INFO CHANGES. MANY TELLERS HAVE A SPEICAL SECRET THING WHERE IF THE WRONG NUMBER IS ENTERD MORE THEN 3 TIMES THE CARD IS 'EATEN' BY THE TELLER MACHINE, BECUASE IT THINKS THE GUY IS A CROOK. IT IS POSSIBLE TO SCRAMBLE THE INFO ON THE BACK OFTHE CARD BY RUBBING A MAGNET OVER IT. X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X Another file downloaded from: The NIRVANAnet(tm) Seven & the Temple of the Screaming Electron Taipan Enigma 510/935-5845 Burn This Flag Zardoz 408/363-9766 realitycheck Poindexter Fortran 510/527-1662 Lies Unlimited Mick Freen 801/278-2699 The New Dork Sublime Biffnix 415/864-DORK The Shrine Rif Raf 206/794-6674 Planet Mirth Simon Jester 510/786-6560 "Raw Data for Raw Nerves" X-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-X