--------------------------------------- FEAR AND LOATHING IN THE 1-800 NPA BY PICA MAN FOR POW! --------------------------------------- FEB. 12/88 MOST OF YOU ON THIS BOARD ARE INTERESTED IN WAREZ AND THAT'S ABOUT IT. FAIR ENOUGH. THE PROBLEM COMES WHEN YOU START HACKING 1-800 DIAL-UPS WITHOUT REALLY REALIZING WHAT YOU ARE GETTING INTO. SO, IN THE INTEREST OF KEEPING YOU PEOPLE OUT OF TROUBLE, I HAVE COMPILED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION TO HELP YOU OUT. NOTE: IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ACTUAL CODES, LOOK ELSEWHERE, THIS WILL ONLY SHOW YOU HOW TO FIND THEM. --------------------------------------- DIAL-UPS ARE ANY LOCAL OR 800 EXTENDED OUTLET THAT ALLOWS INSTANT ACCESS TO ANY SERVICE SUCH AS MCI, SPRINT OR AT&T AND FROM THERE ALLOWS YOU TO CALL (ALMOST) ANY LONG DISTANCE NUMBER. SOUNDS GREAT, DOESN'T IT? BUT THERE ARE SOME DANGERS, THE 2 BIG ONES ARE ANI AND THE 1-800 BILL EXCLUSION. ANI: AUTOMATIC NUMBER IDENTIFICATION - A SERVICE AVAILABLE ON ESS (ELECTRONIC SWITCHING SYSTEMS (LIKE IN VANCOUVER) THAT ALLOWS A PHONE SERVICE (LIKE A DIAL-UP) TO RECORD THE PHONE NUMBER THAT ANY CERTAIN CODE WAS DIALED FROM. SOME SERVICES DO NOT HAVE THE EQUIPMENT TO READ ANI PULSES YET, BUT YOU CAN NEVER TELL UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE STATES, ALL 950 NUMBERS ARE HOOKED UP TO ANI. 1-800 BILL EXCLUSION: YOU SEE, WHEN IT COMES RIGHT DOWN TO IT, BC TEL ARE A BUNCH OF ASSHOLES. WHAT THEY DO IS RECORD EVERY 1-800 NUMBER YOU CALL, THEN ERASE THEM OFF YOUR BILL. MEAN, HUH? AND IF YOU GO OVER A CERTAIN NUMBER OF CALLS, WHAMO! YOU'RE ON THE HOT LIST. IF AFTER THIS YOU ARE STILL INTERESTEd IN USING THIS METHOD OF GAINING FREE LONG DISTANCE CALLS (I DO), THEN I WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO HACK CODES. FIRST THING TO DO IS FIND A WORKING DIALUP NUMBER, YOU CAN DO THIS BY SCANNING THE 1-800 PREFIX YOURSELF, OR MAYBE A BOARD IN YOUR AREA WILL HAVE THEM POSTED. THEN THE PROBLEM IS DETERMINING A VALID AND WORKING CODE. THIS IS TYPICALLY FAIRLY EASY. AFTER YOU HAVE RECIEVED A TONE FROM THE SERVICE, START TYPING NUMBERS, THERE ARE SOME STANDARD FORMATS YOU CAN TRY: [CODE]-1-[NUMBER] [CODE]-9-[NUMBER] [CODE]-[NUMBER] [NUMBER]-[CODE] AND TO MAKE MATTERS A LITTLE EASIER, HERE ARE THE LENGTHS OF CODES FOR VARIOUS SERVICES. MCI - 5/6 ALLNET - 6/10 SPRINT - 9 AT&T - ? METRO - 6 ITT - 7/8 SKYLINE - 6/10 RCI - ? US-TEL - 4/6 LEXITEL - ? WATSLINE - 8 CCSI - ? TELENET - 8 COMPANY X - 6 --------------------------------------- A SHORT NOTE TO THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY HAVE CREDIT CARD NUMBERS OR CALLING CARD NUMBERS THEY WANT TO PHREAK WITH, WATCH OUT! IN MOST CASES THEY ARE ANI'D AND IF YOU ARE CAUGHT YOU WILL BE CHARGED WITH WIRE FRAUD AND CREDIT FRAUD...DOUBLE TROUBLE. BEST WAY TO AVOID GETTING CAUGHT IS TO USE THESE CARDS FROM PAY PHONES OR SOMEONE ELSES TELEPHONE. --------------------------------------- HERE ARE SOME NEAT NUMBERS TO PHREAK TO, HAVE FUN. 202-227-4060 US GOVERNMENT COMPUTER 202-445-4616 PENTAGON TACTICAL 202-545-6706 PENTAGON 202-567-7900 FIRST NATIONAL BANK 203-776-2516 MA BELL 301-268-8914 NAVAL ACADEMY 301-528-3922 LIBRARY 305-371-6382 TRW 313-343-2500 CITY OF HARPER WOODS 313-651-9743 MA BELL 313-685-6709 MICHIGAN NATIONAL BANK 313-962-2870 DOW JONES 313-964-5538 RADIO SHACK 412-527-8291 FBI NET 401-841-3436 WAR DEPARTMENT 401-884-5970 URI 703-781-4531 DEFENCE DEPARTMENT 713-483-4115 NASA (TEXAS) 800-353-9901 CIA COMPUTER --------------------------------------- THE BEST WAY TO HACK CODES IS TO DO SO FROM A PAY PHONE OR MAYBE SOMEONE ELSES LINE, SINCE EVERY CALL YOU MAKE TO 1-800 LINE IS LISTED ON YOUR BILL, JUST USE YOUR OWN PHONE TO USE THE HACKED CODES. I SUPPOSE A LITTLE WARNING SHOULD BE GIVEN HERE, WHEN USING DIALUPS IT IS BETTER TO USE DIFFERENT DIALUPS THAN DIFFERENT CODES ON THE SAME DIALUP, THERE IS SMALLER CHANCE OF GETTING CAUGHT. IF YOU DO GET CAUGHT, DON'T PANIC, IN MOST CASES ALL THEY CAN DO IS FINE YOU AND PERHAPS CONFISCATE YOUR COMPUTER STUFF. IN MOST CASES, THE OLD "WELL, I SAW THE NUMBER ON A BOARD AND I THOUGHT I'D TRY IT AND WELL I'M SORRY I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN" PLOY WILL WORK. BUT IF YOU HAVE MADE LIKE $2000 IN LD CALLS ON A 1-800 NUMBER, THAT WON'T WORK, IN THAT CASE, JUST PRAY YOUR PARENTS DON'T GET FINED IN YOUR PLACE. I HOPE THIS FILE WILL KEEP YOU OUT OF TROUBLE AND KEEP YOU FROM HUGE PHONE BILLS. PICA MAN [: RAIDERS OF 311 :]