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- Are you jobless? Need a little extra cash for the weekend? Have a
- girlfriend that spends all of your money? Well, AT&T operators
- are always more than happy to mail you a check or two for a good
- five bucks each. If you've ever called up the operator and tried
- to convince her that you lost your quarter then you know that
- they hardly ever put the call through for you. They'll always
- send you a check in the mail for 25 cents.
-
- Well, this method also works on long distance and international
- calls just as well. A long distance call can run you up to $2.75
- and I think the most expensive international call I've found is
- $9.65. If you tell the operator you lost all this money, she'll
- happily refund your money. Here's how the conversation usually
- goes with me:
-
- You go to a pay phone. It HAS to be a pay phone, they're not THAT
- stupid. I dial the numbers 102880 which gives me the AT&T
- operator. (For those of you with short memories, dial 10ATT0.)
-
- THEM: "AT&T, this is Mrs. Papshmeer, how may I help you?"
- YOU: "Yeah, I was making an international call using my spare
- pocket change
- that I stole by breaking open a Pepsi machine on 86th
- Street and the
- phone went dead and kept all my money. Could you try the
- call for me?" THEM: "I'm really sorry about that, sir. Our
- policy won't let me put the
- call through for you but I can refund the money to you in
- the mail."
- YOU: "Okay, I guess I can do that, then." THEM: "Alright how
- much money did you lose?"
- YOU: "Um...$5.65." THEM: "What happened when you placed this
- call?"
- YOU: "Well, I dialed the number and the operator had me deposit
- $3.00 of my
- money. Then my party answered and she had me deposit the
- other $2.65.
- As soon as I put in the rest of my money the phone went
- completely
- dead." THEM: "Alright, what number were you dialing?"
- YOU: "Country code 61, city code 2 and the number was 667-3603."
- THEM: "Okay, I need your name, address and zip code."
- YOU: "(I give her my name address and zip code.)" THEM: "We'll
- have that to you in the mail in about two weeks. Sorry about
- your trouble."
- YOU: "Thank you. You have a hell of a day now!"
-
- We hang up. About two weeks later I recieve a letter from AT&T's
- office in Jacksonville, Florida with a letter of apology and a
- check for $5.65. Simple as that. Of course, I usually do 2 to 3
- calls a week so my checks add up to about $10 to $15 a week.
-
- Some Important Notes: -------------------- First of all, you HAVE
- to know how much your international call is going to cost. If
- you give them a wrong amount you're in for some extra hassel and
- they sometimes won't give you your refund.
-
- Also, I described in the conversation AT&T's method of completing
- an international call using coins and this is how it's always
- done. If you don't know how a call is made, the operator will
- know something's fishy. The phone will only hold $3.00 at a
- time.
-
- Third, you don't want to keep using the same international
- numbers over and over again. Call me crazy, but I just don't
- think it's a good idea. Below, I'll tell how to do all this:
-
- The (Dramatic Pause...) Letter I Got:
- ------------------------------------ For awhile in Indianapolis,
- Indiana I was doing pretty well with AT&T cash. I was actually
- considering it my second source of income because I was pulling
- in around $70 a week with it. Then in October of 1993 I got a
- letter from AT&T which read:
-
- Dear (My real name):
-
- Our records indicate a large number of coin refund requests. In
- light of this history, we cannot provide a refund until AT&T
- investigates and verifies this claim. As part of this
- investigation, please provide us with the written detail of the
- call and circumstances in which you lost your money. Please mail
- your explanation to: Coin Refund Investigation Unit
- P. O. Box 561615
- Charlotte, NC 28256-1615
-
- It's been over a year now and I never really heard from them
- again. Their "investigation" probably consisted of sitting on
- their asses and waiting for my reply. Of course I didn't send
- them one and since then I've moved out of state and continue to
- recieve a moderate amount of AT&T money.
-
- Divirting Addresses: ------------------- After the AT&T Letter
- incident, I aquired a check cashing card at the super- market
- under a false name and then sent in a post office "Change Of
- Address" card to Baton Rouge and diverted the mail at a certain
- address under my fake name to my post office box in
- Indianapolis. When AT&T asked for the address to send the check
- to, I gave them the address in Baton Rouge and it was forwarded
- to me in Indianapolis. So I still got my AT&T cash. They just
- didn't know it.
-
- Getting An International Number: -------------------------------
- You can get a number a few ways. One is to look in the front of
- your phone book and find the page on completing international
- calls. All the major country and city codes are in there. You
- can just make up a number of random using a country and city
- code and then a bunch of numbers. Keep in mind, though, that
- foriegn countries numbers aren't all 7 digits like ours are.
-
- Look up Airlines in your yellow pages. Call the 800 number for
- any airline you want and say you want a time table for Egypt or
- any country you choose. They'll take your name & address and
- send you some useless flight schedule junk. Somewhere in this
- little booklet is a whole page of international numbers. Use
- them, one by one...
-
- Call up a phone book ordering office like Ameritech or Dontech
- and order a phone book from a far away place like Australia or
- Belgium. You can have them send you a bill with it which you
- will ignore or you can charge it to somebody else's phone
- number. Never give them your real name or phone number unless
- you actually want to pay for it. (You honest person, you...)
-
- The last way is to choose from the below list that I have
- provided for you. The first few numbers are the country code,
- second numbers are the city code and the last few are the phone
- number. Use these to start your new hobby.
-
- London, England 44 071 633-9293 Paris, France 33 1
- 4359-0034
- Frankfort, Germany 49 69 291-001 Nice, France 33 93
- 82-5284
- Barcelona, Spain 34 3 318-8443 Madrid, Spain 34 1
- 559-5620
- Rome, Italy 39 6 321-0822 Stockholm, Sweden 46 8
- 113613
- Tel Aviv, Israel 972 3 528-9660 Zurich, Switzerland 41 1
- 261-1800
- Brussels, Belgium 32 2 640-1900 Bangkok, Thailand 66 2
- 231-0113
-
- Finding Out How Much Your Call Costs:
- ------------------------------------ Let's say that you picked a
- number in England. The country code is 44 and the city code is
- 462 which is Letchworth Hertz. The phone number is 682-734. Go
- to your pay fone and dial: 011-44-462-682-734.
-
- An operator will come on and ask how you're paying for your call.
- Tell her with coins. (Or, to piss her off, nickels.) She'll tell
- you your call will come to $4.65 for the first minute. That's
- all you need out of her so tell her to go to hell and hang up.
- You now know that your call is worth $4.65 and that's how much
- you tell the AT&T operator for your refund.
-
- How They Complete International Calls:
- ------------------------------------- So let's say that you were
- really going to make that call. She would tell you the call
- costs $4.65 and for you to deposit $3.00 now. You put in three
- bucks worth of quarters and you hear the phone start ringing
- over there in England. (Real funky ring, too!) As soon as the
- dude in England answers, the operator says to him, "This is
- AT&T, I have an international call. Please hold..." Then she
- tells you to put in the other $1.65. After you do that, she gets
- off the line and you're connected to England for a whole three
- minutes until a recording pops back up on the line and asks you
- for four more bucks.
-
- The reason you put the three in first is because the phone can
- only handle three bucks at a time. The refund operator knows
- this and tries to throw you off by asking what happened when you
- tried to complete your call. NOW you know what to tell her.
-
- I guess that's about all you need to know to get lots and lots of
- money from AT&T. Since the amount of the check is so small you
- can usually convince the bank or a supermarket to cash it for
- you with no I.D. so sometimes you don't even have to use your
- real name on the check. I always do, though. Hope you find this
- as helpful as I do when I'm real low on cash. If nothing, it
- should piss your parents off. Cactus.
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- email: real@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
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