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Re: SCAMMERS !

#901 Post by ian16th » Fri May 15, 2020 11:09 am

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Not really a scam, but .... I once learned that one started a number with a - I think ? - a 3 digit "area" number that was dedicated to one's local exchange, so that if one started a number with one's own "area" number then it was only a local call, but anything else became a Toll call, don't press me, can't remember the detail now, but I stopped at every town and village from Heathrow to my then Dorset home, and noted the number to call the "next" place as a local call, then when I got home I rang them all in sequence, having by then something like a 24 digit number that would allow me to call Heathrow as a local call, instead of having to make what was then an expensive toll call ! Seemed to work until I ended up having to add the Heathrow number I needed, which started with a O, and that broke the chain. Foiled again. But it sounded like a good idea at the time !
Yes you could do this with sequential local calls.
The let down was lack of amplifiers, the signal got weaker the further you travelled.
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#902 Post by Capetonian » Fri May 15, 2020 11:37 am

When I was at Uni we use to get our friends and family to reverse charge call us to the public phone at the end of the road. This went on for months until one day two of us walked down there and there was a police car parked opposite. Probably totally unconnected but we shat ourselves, and never used that box again.

If Ian16th. or GG or anyone else from ZA sees this thread, I'm sure they'll tell us about the 'long tickey' and tapping out the digits to make free international calls.

I remember doing the sequential dialling thing too, I had a girlfriend who lived in Bedford (0234) correction - Bradford, 0274) and used to call her from Chorleywood where I lived at the time using the local codes.

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#903 Post by ian16th » Fri May 15, 2020 1:28 pm

The Leeds area code used to be 0532 and Hereford was 0432, the 4 digit number of my major customer in Hereford was the same as the 1st 4 digits of our Leeds office!

I was in Corby at British Steel and wanted to phone the Leeds office and miss-dialed, when I found myself connected to a familiar but totaly out of context, voice it was a WTF! Moment.!
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#904 Post by Magnus » Fri May 15, 2020 1:31 pm

In moments of extreme boredom, I used to call the speaking clock, put it on hold, dial someone else's extension and as soon as they picked up, I'd hang up to transfer the call to them. I can sometimes be easily amused.

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#905 Post by ian16th » Fri May 15, 2020 4:05 pm

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#906 Post by Capetonian » Fri May 15, 2020 5:18 pm

Ian please let me have the email address and a few dozen scammers will be messed around. Or use my list posted below. I add to it every few days the associated emails of these bottom feeding lowlife. They get quite pissed off when you copy them all in on every reply.

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#907 Post by Capetonian » Fri May 15, 2020 6:34 pm

Has anyone else noticed an increase in spam mail on their gmail account in the last week?
It's mostly just crap about : "Hot nurses in your area want to have sex with you"
"See my new videos"
etc.

Unfortunately it's on my 'real' gmail account and not either of the ones I use for baiting scammers. Obviously there is no connection, the others are in completely fake names.

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#908 Post by llondel » Fri May 15, 2020 9:08 pm

BT got caught by the Midnight Lines scam many moons ago. They used to have a deal whereby you could have a line that allowed unlimited calling between midnight and 5am, or something like that. It was aimed at companies who had a need to dial a load of remote stations, exchange data over modems and hang up, so it was a lot of really short calls and a bit like the Economy 7 electric tariff, it was a way of encouraging such stuff to happen overnight when the equipment was otherwise idle and was way cheaper than a bunch of short calls (remember the minimum call charge?)

Some enterprising individual had a good look at their contract and rented a bunch of these lines. He also rented a bank of premium rate numbers, then at midnight would get the first lot to call the second lot and stay connected until the end of the period, thus making the outbound calls for free and BT were paying him the premium on the other lines. When someone at BT cottoned on to this they wanted to terminate the contracts immediately but he threatened to sue them for breach of contract and the amount of income he'd lose if they did. I believe they modified their standard contract after this loophole came to light. Not really a scam because it was entirely legal and somewhat ingenious.

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#909 Post by Smeagol » Fri May 15, 2020 9:52 pm

In the 'good old days' when local calls in telephone boxes in the UK cost 4d and there were buttons A & B, I believe there were some 5o+ ways of connecting calls without paying. 'Tapping' was favourite, where the digits required were tapped out on the receiver rest. Trouble with this it caused the uniselectors in the exchange to move in a very jerky and audible way so anyone there knew what was happening.
The safest and most undetectable way was 'Back dialling' where the rotary dial was pulled round to its fullest extent and allowed to run back the requisite number of holes, using a cork to stop the dial.
One of the most unusual was putting the 4p in dialling the required number and when it was answered instead of pressing button 'A', one shouted up the money return chute. Never tried it, but apparently it did work...sometimes. And one looked rather off carrying out such a conversation in a public phone box!
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#910 Post by llondel » Fri May 15, 2020 10:12 pm

Before they disabled it, you could use one of the little DTMF tone pads that banks were giving out at the time to dial the number, then as it started ringing at the far end, dial 999 on the phone, which would rattle off the digits but give you a free call.

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#911 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Sat May 16, 2020 1:33 am

In moments of extreme boredom, I used to call the speaking clock ..............
Heard of one of our Stewardesses who had a major tiff with her pilot boyfriend but still had a key to his apartment. When he left on a two week trip she went back to the apt. and dialled the New York speaking clock and then just put the receiver down on the table! He came back two weeks later to a staggering International call bill ! Don't Get Mad, Get Even ?
When I was at Uni we use to get our friends and family to reverse charge call us to the public phone at the end of the road .........
Upon leaving school I had a job in another town that necessitated a train journey. Upon return to our local station in the evening I hoped my father would still be at his business premises so that I could get a ride home with him, but to walk to his place and find him gone, then walk back to the bus home could waste me an unnecessary 30 minutes, so .... I asked for a reverse charge connection, and if he answered and agreed to accept the charge, I knew he was there, and he knew it was me, so I just put the receiver down and walked to his place. After a couple of months I was refused the service and told to deposit the correct change ! "They" had cottoned on to my little ploy. Barstewards.

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#912 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sat May 16, 2020 7:11 am

In 1968, when the GPO owned everything, we boltholed from Waddington to Coningsby for 6 weeks. They had just realised that large hands free speaker phone. I confirmed with the engineer that both stations were in a local call rate area. They were.

I ordered a couple of machines for each end, ops and eng, and had instructions "do not hang up". Four pence for 6 weeks was cheaper than a private wire.

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#913 Post by Hydromet » Sun May 17, 2020 11:57 pm

Yeah, right. I never touch to anything with a hotmail address, as since they were hacked years ago, its sole purpose seems to be spreading viruses.
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#914 Post by Hydromet » Mon May 18, 2020 1:27 am

...and another one. Haven't see this before. Half inclined to call the number from a public phone...or a fax machine, but couldn't be arsed.
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#915 Post by llondel » Mon May 18, 2020 1:55 am

I waved one of those attachments in front of a virus scanner which promptly ate it and told me it was a bad idea.

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#916 Post by Hydromet » Mon May 18, 2020 2:24 am

llondel wrote:
Mon May 18, 2020 1:55 am
I waved one of those attachments in front of a virus scanner which promptly ate it and told me it was a bad idea.
Perzactly.

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#917 Post by ExSp33db1rd » Mon May 18, 2020 5:30 am

Just had a call, sounded like a recorded message, from our National Telecom Co. telling me that they are about to cut off my Internet connection unless .... didn't hear the end of it, put the receiver down.

If you never hear of me again you'll know it was genuine ?

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#918 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon May 18, 2020 6:41 am

Read in papers significant reduction in cold calls in March/April but expected to increase as lock down eased.

If ever a job could be done from home 😂

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#919 Post by Pontius Navigator » Mon May 18, 2020 6:49 am

Just received my first email of the day offering an Argos gift card. Win it now. I could try and win a gift card from every UK high street outlet.

In the detail it will say they have nothing to do with Argos and to write or email an address in New York to unsubscribe. I suppose the appeal to greed and if only one in a hundred thousand respond they win.

At least the 'genuine ' Florida holiday cold calls seem to have ended.

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#920 Post by Capetonian » Mon May 18, 2020 7:55 am

I am still waiting for the IRS, HMRC,INS, Scotland Yard, FBI and many others to come and arrest me for 'felonies', money laundering, tax evasion, I have committed.

The other day, call from a UK 0843 number.
"Good morning is that Mr X?" (correct name)
"This is your bank, we need to check on your last three transactions."
"Why?"
"In case they are fraudulent."
"Which bank would that be then"
pause ...... "You know who you bank with."
"I have several bank accounts in each of several countries, I need to know whom I am speaking to."
"Uhhh .... ok then ...."

Wankers.

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