******************************** * * * The Fish Box (c) 1989 * * * * * * >O O< * * >O >O * * O< * * O< * * >O * * O< * * * * From the Labs of * * Dr. Rat * * Industrial Crimes Research * * * ******************************** ------------- The Purpose ------------- Obtain at least five to ten calling card codes a night without trying hard using a programable scanner. It shall become clearly obvious to anyone of the meanest intelligence why I call this a Fish Box. ----------- The Story ----------- This has got to be the easiest way I have ever discovered to find Pac Bell Calling Card codes. A friend gave me an old deralict tranceiver radio that his brother had snitched from a Taxi. It was not long before I got the thing working again. It was an old crystal tuned radio and it had quite a few crystals that I have no idea why a Taxi would need. Aparently one just happened to be for one of the local Marine Operators. This is the operator that Captain Ahab uses when he wishes to place a ship-to-shore call to his favorite 976 number. All he has to do is get the operators attention using his marine band tranceiver and then tell the operator the number he would like to call. Then the operator asks him how he wishes to have that call billed (our friend "Das Phone Company" isn't going to put it through for free). Usually he will give a special number called a MIN (Marine Ident Number) which is just like a phone code PIN but specialy made for guys who like to make ship-to-shore calls often. Ignore these calls. Other times they will request billing to their home phone number. As soon as I hear this I pay close attention to what happens next because nine times out of ten there is no one at their home to answer the phone and give the "okay" for the alternate billing, so the guy with the radio will almost always be forced to use his coveted Pac Bell Calling Card number! Yay! All you got to do is write it down. I keep a little handy recorder near my radio and turn it on whenever I hear traffic on the radio. I even got an MCI code once because the people who own boats aren't very bright. The operator had to explain to the guy that she couldn't accept an MCI code. The guy in the boat started to argue with her! She eventually explained that the local phone company and MCI are two different busineses. Oh well, if they were geniuses then they wouldn't be reading their private personal information over the public air waves! -------------- How To Do It -------------- If you don't live near a sea port, then you are reading this just for your health because there aren't many fisherman in Missori wanting to make a ship-to-shore call. Phreaks in the Michigan and Great Lakes area may find that this works. First you will need a scanner with a good squelch (this shuts of the radio while there is no traffic so you don't go insane listening to static for half an hour). Then simply program the scanner to scan the few local marine operator receiving frequencies. The FCC has set aside ten frequencies especially for this purpose, but usually only three of four will be active in any area, so you will need to program all ten to see which are active near you. Later you can speed up the scan by reducing the number of frequencies that are scanned. A little sweat and a little luck luck got me the rest of the list of Marine Operator Frequencies: Marine Operators 24: 161.800 *84: 161.825 25: 161.850 85: 161.875 *26: 161.900 86: 161.925 27: 161.950 *87: 161.975 28: 162.000 88: 162.025 * Most Active in S.F. Bay area The first number is the marine radio channel, NOT the CB channel. The second is the frequency in Mhz. I put in the astrics to help my pals in the Bay Area. Here is a humerous transcipt of one REALLY stupid woman I recorded. You would think that if I got her once that she wouldn't be stupid to let me do it again (Yeah, that's what I say about ALL the girls.) The operator was just about to let her get away with alternate billing with no verification but she was too timid and did not wish to appear aggresive. asdfasdf Enjoy! And tell them Dr. Rat made you do it! Dr. Rat I.C.R. (Industrial Crimes Research) (c) 1989 All rights reserved