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─ ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ─ - │An·Overview·Of·Prepaid·Calling·Cards│ - ─ ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ── ─ - Second·Update - - First Phrack Release - Second -BTR- Release - First -PAiN- Pak Release - (c) 1995 Treason [518] ┌─│────────┐ by ──┼──reason│ [518] └─│────────┘ treason@fpg.gcomm.com - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - With A Special Thanks Going Out To Al K. Lloyd [4o4] - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - - . - In the past few months or so I have noticed that most places are hopping on to the Prepaid Calling-Card [or PCC for short) bandwagon. PCCs are a cheap alternative to normal long distance. Or are supposed to be. For all of you that don't have any idea what a PCC is or how it works, heres how. Prepaid Calling-Cards are cards shapped like normal calling cards and look exactly like them. All of these are sold so nosy phreaks can't just turn it over and call up the dialup and use it. On the backs all PCCs have a 800 dialup, and about a 9-12 (give or take a few digits) and a customer service number to report troubles. Then they always give calling limits. Most available in the US are only good in the US or US territories. But the ones that aren't are complete ripoffs. With certain ones where you have the option to dial international will give you about 1-2 minutes on a 10 minute card. So I don't recommend calling Int'l with these. And there are a few more restrictions no calling any SAC's. (Special Area Codes, like 700, 800, 900) But domestic dialing is about what you can do and still get you money's worth. So to sum it up a PCC has a slotted ammount of time or dollar ammount to use. As far as getting a good deal you can't. You break even, or get ripped off. Finding PCC's are very easy. They tend to turn up in the oddest of places. You don't even have to look they just pop out with the banners, signs and other various adds surrounding them, so they're not hard to find. Some places where I have found them are at : most grocery stores, some Toy Stores, Greeting Card Shops, Quickee Marts, in packs of Sports cards, and even Sporting good stores. I thought this would be a particularly useful topic to write about due to the fact anybody can benefit from these. But I'm not talking about going to the store and buying them. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what to do with them. They run a child based system so anybody can use it. I mean how hard is it to enter your digits when instructed? Most of these cards are in a way copycat to each other. They all have some deal with some big long distance company. After you enter the valid number they tell you how much time is left on you card. They all have an operator that comes on when 1 minute is left on your card just to tell you that. (BTW that fucks up any modem connection) Plus all of these services run 800 numbers and are open 24/7. That's 24 hours a day 7 days a week. And last but not least, these all don't show up on your phone bill. Some people are set on never using stolen codes. (*cough*Emmanuel* Goldstein*cough*cough) But this is different your not really stealing from anybody by taking these. Your not putting some middle-class people from the Burbs out $20,000 like a stolen abused code that was passed around could. So it's not bad, everybodies doing it! Hack 'em, Crack 'em, LD Pack 'em. Steal 'em, Deal 'em, Conceal 'em. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Theres a new company called Talk 'N Toss. They are offering a mass variety of PCCs to companies that choose to buy large ammount for numerous stores they have. Once a large company buys into this they get set lines to use for this. Then they customize them for their company name and plugs. I have seen Talk 'N Toss (or TNT) sell 5, 10, 20, 30, 50, 80, 90 and 180 minute cards. If you get a 90 or better minute card that's the real jackpot. That is the most minute card I have ever seen selling. If you wish to place an order to sell them at your business dial their customer service toll-phree hotline at [800] 631-8895. Plus i'm sure you can SE the lady into getting free cards. I've done it once so I know that it can be done. They claim that you save up to 38% from a normal AT&T Call Card. Bullshit maybe, but who the fuck knows. I have seen these selling only two places. The first is a grocery store in Colorado (719 NPA) called Albertsons. I don't know if this grocery store is only in Colorado, but thats just where I have happen to run into it. I do not know the dialup know the proper ammount of digits for this card. But it only sells in intervuls of 30 and 90 minutes. Plus this is one of the few cards where you can call international. For example when calling international they say that $1 of what you paid is equal to 3 LD minutes, or about half a international minute. RIPOFF! The other place I have seen TNT cards is Revco drugstore formerly Brooks Drugs. They have 10 minute card for $3.99 and a 20 minute card for $9.99 and a 30 minute call card goes for $14.99, and finally a 90 minute phone card goes for a whopping $24.99. Deal or not? You decide. If you decide you won't pay for this crock of shit call 'em and hack 'em! At [800] 213-0304 With 10 digits for their cards. The time ammount doesn't change the digit ammount. And they have a CS number which you can SE employees or complain to [800] 354-2708. Hello Direct the phone supplies company is offering there version of the PCC from TNT called Prepaid Phone Card(PCC). They're identical models to the Revco TNT cards. The Dialup is [800] 955-2383 and the cards are 9 digits. But these cards are the real jackpot with 180 minute cards for $50 80 minutes for $29 and finally 50 minutes cards for $18. These are by far the best deals around. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Marvel Comics and Kay-Bee have put their heads together and are now offering X-Men PCCs. Theres 2 things you can do with these cards. The first option you have is use it for 20 minutes of long distance. No international. The second is play some stupid X-Men game. That uses 4 minutes or units as they say of you card. You start with 20 units. Which has each unit equivalent to 1 minute. Basically the hot idea they have to see these is have 4 different cards with on each card a supposed famous X-Men 1 on 1 battle scene. Plus they claim their limited edition. Yeah, they are limited edition but so is Phrack. They have taken little more security than other cards by having a scratch off number on the back, so you can't just pop off the outer plastic and see it. But I find these to be some of my favorite PCCs to use because you have 20 minutes, which is fairly ok, plus they are easy to swipe. I just go to my Kay-Bee toys and take a bunch to the back and open them, and either steal the card or write down the number and hide the card. I find writting down the number in a sick way more fun because when someone finds it and thinks they're hot shit by stealing it they'll run into a nice message saying that they have no time left and they can't do shit with it. To further expirement call [800] 616-8883. The cards are 9 digits long. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Champs Sporting Goods Store has a new deal where if you purchase over $35 worth of sports shit you get a card for a free 7 minute call. Technically it ain't free, your buying merchandise. But 7 minutes basically ain't worth your time. But for some things it is. But if you can get it for free it's worth every minute. You can get some dumbass clerks to let you look at the cards because they keep them on the cash register. One lady said to me "Now Don't Pocket That" as I was putting it into my pocket, ohwell dumbass. The number is [800] 437-6404. With 9 digits for your LD. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Randomly inserted into Classic 4-Sport, sports cards are Sprint 100,000 Prepaid FoNCARDS. Classic Games have joined with Sprint for numerous deals, this being one of them. Classic 4-Sport is a pack of sports cards that contain 4-Sports of players going to the pro's next year. Those sports are Baseball, Football, Basketball and Hockey. Now what the fuck would some baseball card collector do with a Prepaid Foncard as Sprint calls them? I still haven't figured it out. But some dealers tell me it's just another marketing thing because they thing is they're limited edition. Which is right in a way. The cards are only worth $2 of LD anyways. While the odds of finding a Sprint FoNCARD is 1:72. (Which means 1 out of every 72 packs). I know very little about this since I haven't seen much out of them. But they do have a scratch off PIN on the back, the thing for collectors is if scratch off the PIN the card looses half of it's value. OOOOh scary. Again Classic is trying to offer something to the collector again. But this time it's about real money. Not opening a $1.50 pack of cards. They're now offering 1, 5, 10, 20 and 1000 dollar cards to dealers. These are such hot commodities that the prices double every quarter! So I asked some ripoff artist what the deal was on getting it he said for a $1000 card you must pay a $750 downpayment with a max order of 1. But the rest you have to order 18 cases of the rest to order them wholesale. That's 108 total cards. But I'm sure you can find them singular. Try looking in your local sports page for adds for Sportscards conventions and at those you can swipe them. To fuck around with these call up [800] 868-9871, with 10 digits to get a set ammount of time. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Sports fans listen up once again. GTE is offering 25 minute PCCs that look like actual calling cards. But with these cards you can order a PCC with a professional football team logo and helmet located on the front of it. They call these "NFL Collectibles" they are called. But the minimum order is 2 cards. Plus with each order you get sent a 5 minute bonus card that features helmets from all 30 NFL teams on it. To order each card is only $14.75 but you have to get 2. Call 1-800-GTE-3804 in the US. And outside the US call [303] 743-4138, extension 712. Or just fax your order to [303] 727-4994. You must order these with a credit card. I saw this add in Sports Illustrated. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() This next one I would call my first love because this is what got my attention to the Prepaid Calling-Card field. Hallmark is also working with Sprint to rip you off for any occasion. They at first started out printing normal greeting cards. (ie Happy Birthday, Get Well, When Will You Finally Get Laid, etc...) But them they got more specific with their Christmas PCCs. Now Valentine's Day is nearing and they are selling Valentine's PCCs. All of these cards are $5.95 for the card and 10 minutes of LD, you can call anywhere in the US and the US territories (Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico) but no Int'l. The main reason I first fell in love with these is because of there mass availability. I have millions of Hallmarks in my area. And these cards are easy to get for free. These greeting cards you just open like a normal card. They are poly-wrapped so they think you won't see the dialup & PIN. But damn they're wrong. The card has a cheap layer of glue on the middle so if you can free the card from it's gluey seal you can pull the plastic back or off to reveal the dialup and PIN. (I will give you the dialups later). I enjoy spending some spare time going to Hallmark getting the PINs while leaving the card there so I can have the joy of someone else buying a card and getting no time!! There is 3 dialups for the 3 kinds of cards. It doesn't matter what dialup you use, all work for any card. The first is the normal greeting for the normal cards. At [800] 504-1115. Or for the Happy Holidays greeting call [800] 203-1225. And the Valentine Line with a new and original message that for the first time says Sprint before Hallmark, at [800] 214-0214. All of these cards are 10 digits. They have a Customer Service (CS) which is really just a branch off the large Sprint CS, that number is [800] 516-2121. The last fact on this Hallmark bunch is that the quality has became more flimsy with each new line of cards they have came out with. For example the first kinds were hard like normal cards, now the Valentines ones are shitty as hell like a normal sheet of paper. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Now we have the Pepsi-Cola company. They are very stupid asses who offer lousy service, but help hackers. They list the dialup on the back of the box! Not just any Pepsi box but randomly inserted in Pepsi Holiday 12 Packs are these cards. So just go to any Grocery Store or wherever and open the boxes looking for the cards. This PCC would have to get the most money spent on advertising because this is the only one with a TV commercial. Plus the cards are only good for 5 minutes of LD, no Int'l. The dialup is [800] 929-COLA of [800] 929-3642 (same number) Once you call it says : "Enter Your 14 Digit Code", that's just asking to be ripped off. Some say a Hallmark card isn't worth the time then fuck this idea. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() 7-11, the slurpee guys are now working with AT&T to bring you their 7-11 Phone Cards. It's supposed to save 50% or more than a LD collect call or normal calling card. Now I know this is a big crock of shit. On the brochure it shows a data table comparing a 3 minute call from LA to NY. It says a 7-11 Phone Card is $1.00, Collect Call is $3, a Payphone is $2.70, and a Call Card is $1.70. I know when I call LD it's only like 15 or close to the cents a minute, not this ripoff. They are available in 15, 30 or 60 minute cards. I found a nice sales pitch on the brochure. It says "After your time is used up, the card becomes inactive and you just buy a new card!", yeah right. With this PCC you can call Int'l. One main clue is that one side of the brochure is all in Spanish (Espanol). But it says all calls must originate from within the US. So you can't give them to your German friends and say they're real Calling Cards. It warns you that since international rates vary a 15 minute card could only be 5 minutes. They don't actually give you that ammount of time. It depends where you call. It's just setup so you have a certain ammount of money credit and once that's used fuck how many minutes are left your time is up. Remember when you want a 7-11 card it is always best to ask for Habib-Jabib. I don't have any further info on these cards, like dialups and shit. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Var-Tec Telecom (10XXX = 10811) the new baby bell out of Texas is offering their version of PCCs called "Prepaid Phone Pass". Dial their automated service and enter this string of numbers to order the cards. I know very little regarding this service, except you can order cards specifically for Domestic or International calls, or both. Their automated service number is : [800] 583-8811. Once on enter this string of numbers : 6, 2 then 1 (To Talk To Consultant) or 3 (For Orders). ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() PCCs are not only for LD, but people are actually collecting them. No not for any illegal services but as a hobby. People like them for there pretty pictures of designs of special events. People are comparing this to (*fun*) stamp and coin collecting. So if theres demand for new styles it must be found in a catalog, and I have found that catalog. But for a price. If you wish to order a 400 card catalog for $5 from : Lin Overholt PO Box 8481 Madeira Beach, FL 33738 You can also purchase a publication intitled "International Telephone Cards" by writing to : 29/35 Manor Road Colchester, Essex CO3 3LX Great Britain ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Electronics Boutique. Or EB for short is offering $5 PCCs with $5 of LD on them. At [800] 233-1363 with 9 digits for the LD. I know very, very little regarding these. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Shit From Al K. Lloyd [4o4]. Slightly Modified ofcourse. Since I've started collecting these suckers, here's some other prepaids for you guys (Treason) to add to the file in BTR: - AT&T/Knights Inn [800] 357-PAID(7243) - 9 digits Customer Service is [800] 462-1818 Glossy cardboard cards in 15 or 25 "units" These are sold at the hotel chain - PrimeCall [800] 866-6915 - 14 digits But try starting with 407-xxxx-xxxx-xxx (just a hunch) Customer service [800] 938-4949 Card is plastic in $10 and $20-I think only one design w/a bunch of flags on it; these guys are going for the international crowd (oddly enough, these are the only ones I've seen dispenced from a machine) - Western Union [800] 374-8686 - 8 digits These guys charges are ridiculous--try them 1st... Customer Service is [800] 374-8686; the cards are thin cardboard to boot-$10, $20, or $50 - Caber Communications [800] 868-9871 - 10 digits Caber/Talk Lite [800] 429-9547 - 10 digits Customer Service is [800] 716-2444 or [404] 876-2444 (local to me) Some of the nicest cards I've seen; $5, $10, and $20 Fairly good rates considering what there is to pick from (like Western Union) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Regarding Caber PCCs : They have sales reps that go to immigrant stores that carry them in business card folders (that seem to carry 46 cards or so) If a folder got stolen--there is no way to tell who had bought which card (unless it was a fresh folder) In which case they'd just notify the Co. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Okay, Caber Communications has 2 different kinds of cards, Caber and Talk Lite. I'll categorize these by line and amount. These are no longer valid cards. Caber `'`'` ┌───────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┬──────────────┐ │$5.00 │ 165-489-4170 │ 537-697-8358 │ 912-314-0132 │ 262-820-0154 │ │ │ 733-374-4010 │ 758-499-2904 │ 143-364-3554 │ ------------ │ │$10.00 │ 305-323-5850 │ 377-902-5824 │ 907-042-1346 │ 602-878-3072 │ │$20.00 │ 767-610-2118 │ 095-943-2248 │ 448-047-2990 │ 024-530-4614 │ └───────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┴──────────────┘ Talk Lite `'`'`'`'` ┌────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────┐ │$5.00 │863-406-9186 │ 733-374-4010│ │$10.00 │782-512-4340 │ 940-704-3046│ │$20.00 │355-227-7378 │ │ └────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┘ I could have sworn I had more of these, I'll send them when I find them. [- You can try to find algorithms with those -] Later, Al K. Lloyd ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() A Post From An Unknown User in Atlanta : As far as PCC's go, I noticed on 4 or 5 of mine that all of the numbers were divisible by 33... Maybe there's some sort of algorithm that controls the numbers on these cards. This particular case was an MCI/NBC sweepstakes, each card giving 10 minutes... Another thing to wonder about when carding cards (hrm... cute term).. Sooner or later, someone does(?) get smart about people carding. So, do they track these cards or anything? Or do you just have to use them short-term, etc...? Anyone that works for a convienience store, what's the policy on stolen cards? Do you report them to AT&T or whomever as stolen? Give them numbers? etc... and what followups are done. ()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()()() Here is a list of the numbers I went over and a brief note on each one. In order from least ammount of digits to highest. Systems `'`'`'` Pepsi [800] 929-CoLA - 14 Digits PrimeCall [800] 866-6915 - 14 digits Caber Communications [800] 868-9871 - 10 Digits Caber/Talk Lite [800] 429-9547 - 10 digits Talk n Toss/Revco Cards [800] 213-0304 - 10 Digits Champs Sporting Goods [800] 437-6404 - 10 Digits Hallmark/Sprint [800] 504-1115 - 10 Digits Hallmark/Sprint/Holidays [800] 203-1225 - 10 Digits Hallmark/Sprint/Valentines [800] 214-0214 - 10 Digits Classic Games [800] 868-9871 - 10 Digits AT&T/Knights Inn [800] 357-PAiD - 9 Digits Electronic Boutiques [800] 233-1363 - 9 Digits X-Men/Kay Bee Toys [800] 616-8883 - 9 Digits Talk n Toss/Hello Direct [800] 955-2383 - 9 Digits Western Union [800] 374-8686 - 8 Digits Other `'`'` Ordering GTE Football Cards [800] GTE-3804 - Ordering GTE Football Cards Ordering GTE In 303 NPA [303] 743-4138 - See Up + From Outside US Ordering GTE In 303 NPA Fax [303] 727-4994 - Faxing Orders For GTE Footballs Talk n Toss/Revco/CS [800] 354-2708 - Customer Service Talk n Toss Customer Service [800] 631-8895 - Ordering Bulk Var-Tec Telecom [800] 583-8111 - Ordering Prepaid Phone Pass Caber Customer Service [800] 716-2444 - Customer Service Caber Customer Service [404] 876-2444 - Customer Service Primecall Customer Service [800] 938-4949 - Customer Service Western Union CS [800] 374-8686 - Customer Service AT&T/Knights Inn CS [800] 462-1818 - Customer Service ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── ThE EnD For More Information Contact The Author Over The Internet At : : treason@fpg.gcomm.com : Leave, Suggestions, Ideas, More Information and Collective Critism ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── .................. . - by - . . 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