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- H A C K E R S S P R E E charged with defrauding Telecom. The
- students, facing 72 charges, are
- accused of using computer generated
- Typed by Blake of Pearl dial tones to break into vacant phone
- numbers to make free calls.
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- Clandestine teams of computer hackers Computer enthusiasts in Perth said
- around Australia are illegally using computer fraud was growing fuelled by
- company credit numbers of large information exchanged thru BBS'. The
- companies to go on international crimes ranged from pirating software
- shopping sprees. The hackers, as to the criminal use of credit cards.
- young as 12 are breaking into The purchases were usually impossible
- telephone exchanges using their home to trace and went by largely unnoticed
- computers to obtain the numbers, which by the victims, mostly large
- are gained through "bulletin boards". companies.
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- It is known that many hackers have One Perth hacker said hundreds of
- used the numbers to buy computer teams consisting of mainly teenagers
- software from manufactures both here were operating Australia wide.
- and overseas. The underground has Hackers were also able to make free
- come to light after three Perth international calls through US phone
- University students appeared in court companies using false phone credit
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- cards to scan the worlds bulletin
- boards.
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- 18 year old Raul Sobon has pleaded
- guilty to aiding the fraud. His co-
- accused , 20 year old's Simon
- Williamson and Marcuse Binder face 34
- and 38 charges respectively. They
- face 12 months jail if imprisoned.
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- Blake: You shouldn't play with
- dangerous weapons like tone-diallers
- and blue boxes boys and girls. Don't
- try this at home.
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- This article was taken from an
- Australian newspaper from July 1992!
- The computers involved are of Amiga
- and IBM types.
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