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- Third Party Payphones
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- By: The Jedi
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-
- Theres been alot of discussion lately about paperclipping and redboxing on
- payphones so I decided to write up an article about that subject to be
- included in this issue of PHUN. Here are a few things that you'd might find
- interesting about payphones....
-
- NOTE: All the payphones discussed in this article refer to Non-New York
- Telephone PayPhones. There are plenty of third party payphones in New
- York. The easiest way to tell if the payphone is from New York Tel is to
- look right under the keypad where is says what numbers to dial for
- information. All New York Payphones will have their Logo printed
- somewhere on that label. If it isn't New York Tel, there will be a
- company name and number listed to call for refunds. Thats the company
- that owns and operates that perticular payphone.
-
-
-
- 2 - Ripping off the handsets. Now exactly the best way to phuck over the phone
- company but still is fun if you have nothing else to do. Just take a pair
- of pliers, grip them, and turn the opposite direction of the way that the
- steel is woven. This will expose the wires. Cut the wires, and bring your
- handset home with you!!
-
- 3 - Breaking into the jack. From what I've seen by repairing payphones, all
- the ones that I've seen have a regular phone jack somewhere in the
- fortress or nearby. This allows you do do a great many things. First lets
- talk about the jack's location.
-
- The fortress phones that have those big green walls to then are the
- easiest ones to get into. The location of the jack is in the "Stem". Right
- about Knee high there should be a green plate with 6 or so wierd looking
- screws holding it in place. To get that panel off requires a special
- screwdriver. Somewhat like a "Allen Wrench" with a little hole in the
- middle. You can probably pick up a screwdriver like this in most hardware
- stores.
- On the fortress phones that are silver and skinny, the jack is usually
- location in the ground underneath cement. Don't even bother with them.
- On payphones located inside stores, just follow the two wires coming out
- of the phone, it should lead to a beige box with a lock on it. Pick the
- lock or break open the box and you'll see the jack.
-
- Ok, now that you're into the jack, you can dial anywhere you'd like to.
- Remember, that phone jack is almost exactly like the jack you have in your
- house. Just pick up a cheap $5 phone from radio shack [A small one
- preferrably since you dont want to look obvious] and hook it in! By doing
- this, you're bypassing all the security of the phone [etc...Please Deposit
- .10 cents for the next XX mins.].
-
- 4 - Get the Coin Box! Not that easy but one of my friends managed to bring
- home a parking meter so it IS possible!! Theres two locks you must get
- past in order to get to the coin box. First, get a piece of metal and make
- the following.....
-
- ___
- __| |__
- |__ __|<===-- about 1/4 of an inch
- | |
- ________| |________
- / X
- | |
- X___________________/
-
- This key will allow you to get past the lock in the front of the
- payphone. Ok, pick the lock on the bottom left-hand side of the payphone
- [or drill a hole in it] and then put that key in the front lock and turn
- it clockwise [to the right for those of you that can't tell time! heh].
- Pull out the coin box and go and play 2000 video games!! Each coin box
- holds up to a maximum of $150-175 dollars.
-
- 5 - Reprogramming the payphone. The most fun thing and also most dangerous!
- First off, these aren't the stupid NY Telephones, they will call back the
- company automatically if you dont do this correctly! All of the phones
- that I work on have burnt-in Eproms that are for service. You can do
- things like.....
-
- A) Change the refunds number. This is a number to get in touch with the
- company that operates the phone and get a refund sent to you by mail. When
- you dial it, you won't have to put in a quarter for the call. Now, if you
- can change that number to whatever you'd like, you can make a free phone
- call from that phone anytime you want!
-
- B) See how much money is in the coin box. You don't want to waste your
- time if theres only $5 in there do you?? You can also erase that amount,
- making it a pain in the ass for the technician who now must count it out
- himself!
-
- C) Theres a couple of other things in there that I haven't found out about
- yet but as soon as I do, they'll be in the next issue fer sure!
-
- Ok, the lock for this is either in two places. Check the top of the
- payphone, if theres a lock there, thats the one that you want. It's called
- a service lock. If it isn't there, check the right-hand side of the
- payphone. If it's there, you'll need that key that you've made also. Pick
- the top lock and use the key for the one underneath it. Once you do that,
- you should get one of the following....
-
- 1 - If the payphone has a LCD Display on it, you'll see a menu
- displaying the following...
-
- Service Mode:
-
- Now you'll have to hack out the code. It's usually four digits so
- it should take too long. I'm not about to list the ones that I have
- because I know some asshole will wind up trashing my phones!!!
-
- Theres a few codes that are possible and each do different
- things. For instance, one code will give you access to the coin box
- counts and test modes while another will give you access to
- programming the emergency numbers and refund numbers. Be sure NOT
- to go into the payphone test mode!! This is cause the payphone to
- display
-
- PHONE SELF-TEST: Please Do Not Use.
-
- What happens here is that the phone calls up the company that
- operates the payphone and tells whoever picks up the phone, the
- amount that is in the coin box and whatever thats being do to the
- phone! You're asking for trouble with this mode.
-
-
- 2 - If there is no display, listen to the handset. A voice will prompt
- you to enter your service entry. It works exactly the same way as
- the LCD Display but just with a voice.
-
- 3 - Either way, once the lock is turned back into the original position,
- the phone will go into self-test mode. The way to get around this
- is to open up the phone. Just pull the front end of the phone
- towards you, this will release half of the phone. Find the power
- supply board. On some models, it will have the power supply on the
- main board [The one standing upright], on others, the power supply
- will have it's own separate board located underneath the main board
- and coin mech. You'll notice which ever section that has a
- transformer on it, thats what I'm talking about. Ok, there should
- be a little orange switch there. If you pull in out, that will turn
- the phone off. Pushing it in will turn the phone back on again. If
- you pull it out and then push it in again, the phone will do a quick
- check of itself [about 3-5 seconds]. Now, put the front end of the
- phone back onto the fortress and turn the service key quickly. If
- you do this quick enough, the phone won't have a chance to go into
- service mode or self-test. It'll be like you never broke into it in
- the first place!
-
- 6 - Once you get past the service lock. You can now get inside the payphone
- itself. Pull the front end of the payphone towards you, then lift. Inside
- you'll see various electronic boards, a coin mech, etc... On some models,
- you'll also have a modular cable coming in from the jack, hook up your
- portable phone to it and dial up! Trash the boards, take some home. Thats
- where the real damage comes in! The average payphone costs about $1,200 to
- 1,500 bucks and most of that is because of whats inside, not the fortress
- itself.
-
- 7 - On most payphones that are in stores, they'll be a couple of wires coming
- out of it. If the phone was hooked up sloppy, they'll be exposed. One wire
- is for power, the other goes to the jack. Cut them or pull out the jack.
- Everyone that puts money into it afterwards will lose it!
-
- 8 - On the Intellical and Echotel payphones, theres a special feature that
- will allow the owner of the phone to log into it remotely from a computer.
- As of now, I don't have the exact information on how to break into it
- through modeming but I do know that it is definately possible! Once you
- login, you'll be able to reprogram the rate tables. A rate table is a
- eprom that contains all the information on the rates for calls such as how
- much it costs to call long distance and the amount of time per call thats
- allowed. If you're able to reprogram the rate table, you'll be able to
- make free phone calls anywhere for an unlimited amount of time. As soon as
- I figure out how to crack the program thats used to call in, I'll write
- the information in the next issue. Stay tuned!
-
-
- Well, that should be enough for all you guyz to have fun. The next issue will
- have a detailed explanation on how the payphone itself operates and whatever
- else I might find out that interesting. Until then, if you have any questions,
- you can leave me some email.
-
- ---===>>THE JEDI<<===---
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