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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => Techinical Shit => Phreaking, Hacking, Social Engineering, Lock Picking => Topic started by: MIB on February 10, 2007, 05:59:50 PM

Title: Anyone ever try the 90# phone trick
Post by: MIB on February 10, 2007, 05:59:50 PM

90# Scam (http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/jailcall.asp)

According to the story, if you were to call any business who use the BPX phone setup and ask them to press 90#, you are able to make long distant calls on their dime.

Anyone ever try this or heard of people who did it? Is this trick still possible?

MIB

Title: Re: Anyone ever try the 90# phone trick
Post by: Jersey on February 10, 2007, 08:07:09 PM

I read that awhile ago but since the updates were kind of old on it I didn't bother posting it. Seems like it could be pretty useful if it still works though.

Title: Re: Anyone ever try the 90# phone trick
Post by: rbcp on February 10, 2007, 08:40:17 PM

I remember that being in the papers a lot in the late 90's.  I guess prisoners were somehow using it to take control of home phones.  Or maybe I'm confusing this with some other feature code that was being exploited.

Title: Re: Anyone ever try the 90# phone trick
Post by: Nod on February 10, 2007, 09:18:46 PM

I'm trying to find that story. Do you remember what state that was in?

Title: Re: Anyone ever try the 90# phone trick
Post by: johnnyhacker on March 02, 2007, 04:27:14 PM

Quote from: rbcp on February 10, 2007, 08:40:17 PM

I remember that being in the papers a lot in the late 90's.  I guess prisoners were somehow using it to take control of home phones.  Or maybe I'm confusing this with some other feature code that was being exploited.

I'm pickin my brain & the only thing that comes to mind is the 9 codes.