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- Yes, you read this right, Public phone crashing. This is a trick that
- works NOW on ESS not like those other philes you d/l and expect to find out all
- this /<ool stuff, just to learn it only works on Crossbar. The only drawback is
- that this trick only works on rotary or pulse phones - which are now becoming
- somewhat rare with the conversion of the rotaries to touch tone. But this will
- also work on pulses and rotaries in someone's home, so if ya have someone
- ya really want to phuck over, this is the way to go.
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- Ok, there seems to be a little bug in the zero plus (0+) numbers handler
- of ESS. (For those not familiar with zero plus numbers, they are numbers which
- follow the format 0-NPA-prfx-xxxx.) Now, upon dialing a zero plus number, you
- get a tone and the you can either dial 0 for assistance, or enter your calling
- card number. (DON'T phuck with these!) Now if you don't enter a touch tone, the
- operator will come on whether you like it or not. But.... yes, BUT, sometimes,
- before you hear the tone which prompts for the calling card, you'll hear some
- noise which lasts for only a second. When you get this, and if you're on a
- pulse phone where you can't enter a 0 or the card number with touch tones, the
- card promt tone will repeat itself every few seconds INDEFINITELY!!!!
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- NY Telco seems to be onto this bug since it's happening less and less
- often, yet as of the printing of this phile it still does occur.
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- Another trick is for privately owned pay phones. Everyone knows (and
- hates) that you have to pay for Directory Assistance. Now on a privately owned
- pay phone, by dialing 0-NPA-555-1212, the assistance is free (remember zero
- plus numbers are used in collect call handling) so in effect, the Directory
- Assistance operator that answers gets charged for the call and the assistance
- fee. So even if ya don't have a pay phone (don't ask me why ya should - some
- stores do, though), phuck around with it on regular pay phonez, cuz it might
- screw something up in the billing somewhere. The only drawback is that the
- caller must be in the area he is calling DA for. For instance, the caller for
- NYC must be calling DA for NPAs 718, 212 or 516 from one of those NPAs.
- Remember, long distance Directory Assistance is, by nature, free.
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- If you have any other phreaking info, I can be reached at The Lost City
- BBS 718-531-5928, an awesome *Elite only* phreaking/hacking/pirating board and
- leave me E-mail.
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