• Introduction: Written by linear
• Automated Harassment: Written by RedBoxChiliPepper
• Family Plan Scam: Written by linear
• Phiz's Scanner Guide: Written by phizban the dark elf
• Free Food From Fast Food Restaurants: Written by Amer1can Zer0
• How To Burn A Computer From The Inside Out: Written by Bor
• Follow-Up: File Sharing Exploit: Written by Jolly Spamhead
• Running From The Law: Written by Letter God
• Phreaked: Written by Twisted Faith
• Chat Log Happy Fun Time Land: Written by Various Losers
• Disclaimer

Introduction Written by linear

Hola, my little hax0r-phone-jedi-knights! 'Tis I, linear, here to serve you once again as Holy Mother-Fuckin' Editor! I've been gone for quite some time now, but at least I managed to get online every now and then to talk to a few of you and write some stuff for UPL018. Many thanks to RTF for taking over on the last two issues. Especially UPL018, which is probably much better than any issue I'll ever do.

You know it's a great issue when the Father-Of-All-Things-Phoneloser himself, RedBoxChiliPepper (of the Phone Losers of America), writes an article. And it's all about our favorite subject, too: Harassment! The rest of the issue could suck balls (and it does!), but having anything by rbcp totally redeems it.

We also got some frequecy-scanning info brought to you by my freind, Phiz. For more info on scanning, check out UPL006 "Scanner Fun" by Jc, or "Basic Phone Security: Making and Breaking It" in UPL018 by the Mob Boss.

And we's be havin' an article by your's truly, explaining how you can get "Family Plans" to work for you... assuming you have a family. There's even another trip to Chat Log Happy Fun Time Land! SCORE!

All this and more, and we're not even charging you!

Feel free to send any questions/comments/etc. to me, or any other UPL staff members. Your letter could end up in UPL020! And I'm sure any of the authors in this issue (or any other, for that matter) would like to hear from you too, so drop them a line as well. And for UPL020's sake, submit some articles, dammit!@#%$^ Oh yeah, nawleed's back too.

Automated Harassment Written by RedBoxChiliPepper

Imagine this - your phone rings, you pick it up and you're greeted with a standard fax machine beep so you hang up.  Several minutes later your phone rings again and you hear a recording of a voice saying, "This is your free sample message!" and it goes into a big sales pitch.  Even more minutes pass and your phone rings again and this time it's a computerized voice saying, "ibaibaibaibaiba!"

Okay, so you're the victim of harassment.  You're not too worried because you know that the guy doing it will get bored sooner or later and it'll eventually stop.  But it doesn't stop, it gets worse and worse, day after day, 24 hours a day.  Your phone rings non-stop making it impossible for you to receive any phone calls and difficult to even make outgoing calls.  Your only defense is to turn off your ringer but this only fills up your answering machine with garbage calls so you have to turn that off as well. This never stops, the calls just keep coming in - your phone has been completely put out of commission and there's nothing you can do about it.

Most of my favorite revenge techniques have almost always involved the telephone in some way or another.  Whether it's impersonating an automated call system to flood the victim, making collect calls to their house in the middle of the night, shutting off their lines or calling up fax-back services on them, phone harassment is always something that can drive a person nuts.  But the problem is that you have to put just as much time into it as your victim spends recieving it.  Until now...

There are a growing number of web-based services available today that will call your house for you and all you have to do it put your telephone number into a web form and press the "SUBMIT" button.  That's easy enough to use to someone else's disadvantage, but you're  still putting a lot of work into pressing that submit button over and over. This file will give you a few ideas on eliminating the  need for you to be present while harassing your victim.  You can go about your daily life doing more important and productive things  while your victim's phone rings forever.  And I mean forever.  You need only spend minutes a day (if even that) keeping the process going and it'll last for months, even years.

How It Works:
First I'll explain how it's done.  All you have to do is pick a few web sites that automatically call a phone number when you put a phone number into the form and press the submit button.  Then you modify the  html, set it all up on a web site somewhere and  drive as much traffic  to your new page as you possibly can.  Easy, right?  Below I'll explain in as much detail as possible how you can accomplish this.

Finding A Service To Use:
Your first goal is to find a good web-based service that automatically calls a phone number of your choice.  There are many to choose from and I'm only going to list a few.  A simple web search should find you plenty of other prospects.

• http://www.messageblaster.com
• http://www.iping.com
• http://www.mrwakeup.com
• http://faxback.apple.com
• http://www.landsend.com

Mrwakeup.com and iping.com are the same services, just with different domain names.  Somewhere on their site they have a "free sample" form that you can use.  Messageblaster.com is a great service to use because not only is their free sample form on the main page, but if you look at the source code it's easy to modify the automated voice so it'll say anything you want it to.

The faxback.apple.com is a great service but it's a little complicated if you're a novice at writing html but it has a nice feature - it will send YOU an email everytime that it tries to fax your victim.  This way you know exactly how often their phone is ringing.  Landsend.com is even more  complicated (as far as html goes) but it's nice because a live person  will call up your victim and ask for the name of your choice.  This works out good if you want to have them call your victim's employer and make the Landsend reps say your victim's name.

Modifying The HTML:
If you're not familiar with html programming then you need to learn. It's easy as hell, especially if you're only going to be copying these web sites and not doing much else.  Print out some reference sheets (which can be found on the web) and print out the source code to a few web sites so you can get a feel of how web pages are constructed.  And whatever you do, don't try to use Microsoft's FrontPage editor to do any of this.  Only use a text editor such as Windows Notepad.

Go to the website that you're going to modify and view the source of that page.  Copy everything from the FORM tag to the /FORM tag. In this example we're going to use messageblaster.com.  This site  actually has two different forms, so make sure you copy the second form set, not the first one which is a login/password form.  You don't need that one.

You'll notice that the first form tag says method=POST action=bin/PwIsapi.dll.  The action part is a problem because since you won't be operating your modified script from messageblaster.com's own site (unless you're an f-rad hacker!) you'll have to add in their domain into this part of the form.  So make your action read like this:


Note that I'm leaving off most of the bracket thingies to make converting this file into html easier for linear.  You're welcome, linear!  If I don't mention a particular input tag, don't touch it!  Just leave it as it is.  You can delete all the annoying formatting tags like FONT COLOR FACE, etc.  And also the text like "Phone Number:" and stuff.

Right after the part where it says "Phone Number:" there will be an INPUT tag a few lines down that looks like this:


You're going to want to change this line so that it will have your victim's phone number in that form, but nobody will be able to see it.  To do this, change this line to look like this:


You've changed the input TYPE to "hidden" so that the casual web surfer will not see this part of the form.  You removed the SIZE tag since it's invisible and it doesn't matter what size it is and you've added a VALUE tag which contains your victim's telephone number.  I recommend putting your own home phone number there for now so that you can test this out once you're done modifying everything.  The next input tag is for your email address and it looks like this:


That's no good, make it looks like this:


Once again, you've turned this into a hidden tag, removed the size and entered in an email address since messageblaster.com wants an email address to spam their users at.  Hey, why not put your victim's email address in  there too?  The next part is a bit more complicated and involved the SELECT tag. Since you want your html to be as clean and invisible as possible, we're going to eliminate the SELECT feature and replace it with a standard INPUT tag. Here's what you see:


And you'll want to replace it with the following:


Of course, don't forget the brackets before and after this.  You've changed the SELECT tag into a hidden input tag, keeping the same name of "PWF_BODY" and added your own new message in the value tag.  Messageblaster will never know the difference between a SELECT tag and an INPUT tag.  The value can be changed from "Word to yo gerbil" to anything you like and when it calls your victim up at home they'll hear a computerized voice announcing whatever you type in there.  Wheeeee!  Now all that's left is the SUBMIT button.  Messageblaster uses an image for their button but to keep things easy, we're just going to change that to a standard boring gray SUBMIT button.  You see:


Let's change that line to:


So now you're done modifying the html!  Don't forget to leave the /FORM tag on the end of all this.  Your completed form should look like this:


Now turn this bit of html into a full html document by adding the appropriate tags on the top and bottom of your page, name it index.html and upload it to a web space provider.  I prefer tripod.com myself because they give you a nice,clean domain name like yourname.tripod.com.  But any provider will work. Get it up on the web, go to your new page and click on the "CLICK HERE TO  ENTER!" button.  If all goes well, you'll be taken to a page on messageblaster.com that says something like, "Congratulations! You've just  sent your first message using MessageBlaster!"  In a few seconds your phone will ring and an automated voice will tell you you're getting a message and  then it'll say, "Word to yo gerbil!"

Final Touches:
You'll want to make good use of your web space and get a lot of people to click on your submit button.  On my page, I use the following message before the button:  You must be 18 years or old to view the pictures in this archive! This section is intended for mature audiences only and if you're under the age of 18 you may not proceed.  Click below to get started!

This leads your web visitors to believe that they're going to get to see a bunch of porn for FREE and of course they click on the button only to see a congratulations message from messageblaster.  What I've always done is set up four separate sections on my page using four different services but all of them are set up to call the same telephone number.  This way, the person visiting your page will try all four selections before giving up which will make your victim's phone ring four times instead of just once.

Getting A Shitload Of Visitors:
Now that you have your web page set up, you need to get a lot of people to visit it so your victim's phone will ring non-stop.  Obviously, listing your site in a bunch of search engines isn't going to get you much traffic.  So we just have to resort to spam.  If you theme your page around porn like I do, you'll need to advertise to a bunch of perverts. And what better place to find a pervert than on IRC?

All you have to do is get on a large network (like efnet or dalnet), list all the channels containing "sex" "pics" or "!" and join 4 or 5 of those  channels, preferably the ones that have a LOT of people in them. Now using mIRC's ON JOIN command, you set it up so every time a person joins the room, they get a private message from you advertising your site.  Most will ignore your message but some will visit.  My messages usually say something along the lines of, "Hi, I just set up a huge porn archive on my personal web  server.  You can view it by going to http://bigasspornarchive.tripod.com. There are no ads or popups."

I recommend going into the kiddie porn channels to advertise because not only are you wasting the time of your victim, you're wasting the time of people who look at kiddie porn.  I would make a section on my page that claimed to contain a directory of kiddie porn and it would state, "If you are over the age of 17, you MAY NOT look at the pictures in this archive or you're violating federal law!  You must be a minor to view kiddie porn!!" I'm sure all the horny middle-aged men heeded my warning.


How Well Does This Work?
When I was testing all this automated harassment out, I did it on a person's phone whose lines I had access to so that I could listen in and see how much their phone rang.  By only sitting on IRC in 4 or 5 channels, I managed to make their phone ring NON STOP for 6 months straight.  And all I had to do was keep my IRC connection going 24 hours a day.  For awhile I used Apple's faxback service which would automatically email my hotmail account whenever my victim's phone rang and I would get an average of 2 emails PER MINUTE.

Even when I would lose my IRC connection for a day or two, the phone calls would continue because these perverts on IRC would assume my page was having difficulties and bookmark it so they could visit it again later.  I also put a lot of good keywords in the meta tags on my page so that people searching through tripod's site would find me.

My victims were helpless.  They changed their number and I got the new one, modified my web page with their new number and there was absolutely nothing they could do to stop it.  They called the phone company and had someone out to check their lines, they changed their number again and they called the cops but nothing did any good. Their phones were completely useless to them during my testing phase.

All this and my only efforts were to check my IRC connection every day as I  checked email and rejoin a few of the channels that I'd been kicked out of for spamming.  Just think of the carnage that could be caused by someone putting some effort into something like this.  You could set up several pages of automated forms using every web-based call-back service available.  You could set each one up to call a different number related to your victim.   Call their employers at work and home, call their relatives, call their neighbors and call them on their home and cellular phone.  And every person you called would be tormented by your victim's name in a computerized voice. You could effectively destroy someone's social life with this little prank.

Web-Based Paging:
If you have your victim's pager number, it wouldn't be too hard to figure out who their pager provider was.  Using that information, you could just go to  the provider's web site and find the form they use for paging their users.  I don't think there are any providers out there who DON'T offer web-based paging of their customers.  Just modify the form with hidden tags, put your victim's number into the VALUE tag and set it up on your web page.  You can make their pager beep non-stop for a few years too.

It would be really cool if there was an easy way to pick a pager exchange and page random pager owners in that exchange with your victim's phone number. This way your victim would be called by a ton of people all day and night saying, "You paged me?"  The only way I can think of to do this is if the  paging company's web site asked for the pager number in three parts - area  code, prefix and suffix.  Then you could turn the first two parts into hidden tags and keep the last one available.  On your page you could write next to it, "please enter your 4 digit authorization code" and perverted users would try to be sneaky hackers by entering in 4 random numbers into that part of your page.  That's just an idea, though, there has to be a better way.

Anonymous Emailers:
Another obvious way to annoy your victim would be to use a web-based anonymous email form to automatically email them garbage messages each time someone clicked on your button.  Personally I think email bombing is  pointless, though. How hard is it for your victim to highlight a bunch of identicle emails and press the "delete" key?  Definitely not as effective as making their phone ring all day and night.

Rerouting Phone Numbers:
You can cause a lot of confusion by rerouting phone calls to your victim.  All you need to do is pick a business that you think gets a lot of phone  calls throughout the day, then call up phone company repair and say something like, "Hi, we have some people in here today rewiring our whole phone system and the phones are going to be off all day.  Could you forward the calls to our other office until further notice?" and give them your victim's number.

Of course, this won't last very long.  The company whose lines you've forwarded will notice that they're not getting any phone calls and will  call the phone company to ask what's going on.

A better way, although slightly more difficult, is to forward a company's  toll-free number to your victim.  This involves calling up AT&T at 800-222-0400 and asking them who the company's toll-free provider is - AT&T  will even give you the provider's customer service number.  Then you just  call up customer service and tell them that you want your toll-free number to ring at a different location.  Usually they'll change it with no questions  asked.  It takes considerably longer for a company to figure this out so it  lasts a lot longer than just calling up repair and forwarding their lines.

In Closing:
In closing I'd just like to say that you're a terrible person if you actually try anything I've described in this article.  No person deserves this amount  of torture no matter what they've done to you.  (Excluding my test subject, of course!)  And also, you can probably get into a lot of trouble if you do this to someone for a year and then get caught.  Your weakest link might be some guy on IRC getting curious about not seeing the porn, looking at the  source code and calling your victim to ask him if he's gotten a lot of calls. From there it wouldn't be too hard for them to figure out who you are from your IP address and your ISP's cooperation.

If you have any comments about this article or if you want to tell me how much I'm going to hell, visit my webpage at http://www.phonelosers.org/rbcp/

Family Plan Scam Written by linear

Most cellular phone companies are coming out with "Family Plans" (and by most I mean some, and by some I mean one or two, and by one or two I mean definitely one, possibly another one). The plan is usually something like everyone in the family (up to four or five people) gets their own cell phone. Then you get a certain amount of minutes each to make calls and you get charged extra for evrery call over the amount of minutes you are given (like virtually every other cellular plan). If you call anyone in your family on their own super-neato personnal cell-phones, you don't waste any of your minutes or get charged extra. But what allows us to scam these plans, is that the same goes if you call your house - no waste of minutes, no charge.

But what a minute, linear, how does this enable us to scam these fun-for-the-whole-familia "Family Plans"?

You see, a lot of us have the luxury of two (or more) phone lines. Usually one for normal calls, and an extra one just for our internet-connection (since we have the tendency to stay online for 63 hours straight). Anyway, we probably don't use this second internet-connection line for incoming calls.

Dammit, linear! That doesn't asnwer my question at all, you son of a bitch!@#$% What's all this nonsense got to do with scamming those top-rate "Family Plans"?

You should have a pretty good idea of what I'm getting to at this point, but I'll elaborate just for you, my little phone-scamming cupcake!

First, have a Sunday-Family-Fun-Day and sign up for one of these Family Plans. When they ask for your home phone number, give them the number to your internet-connection line. Get everything else all setup and do all the shitty paperwork and what-not. Once everything is finalized and you all walk out with your very own super f-rad cell-phones, make your internet-connection line forward all incoming calls to an operator. In most areas you can setup call forwarding by dialing 72# (or *72) plus the number you want to forward calls to (0, in this case. Or 1-800-OPERATOR, if you prefer). Then if you need to disable call forwarding later you just dial 73# (or *73). If this method doesn't work in your area, I'm sure you can just call an operator and tell them that you need to have all calls to your line forwarded to your "office" at 1-800-673-2867 [1-800-OPERATOR]. For some reason I doubt telling them that "0" is your office number will work.

Ah-ha! I think I'm getting it, linear! But, uhm... Wait, no, I'm lost. Why the hell would I want to do all this?

Well, it's quite simple, really. Now, when you call your internet-connection line from your cell-phone, you'll get an operator, and you can tell her to connect you to a local number!

But I can call a local number myself, jackass! Why the hell would I want to go through all the trouble of dialing my house and dealing with some stupid operator just to get a local call? Why, linear, why?!?

So you don't waste all your cell-phone's minutes or get a huge phone bill just for making local calls on your cell-phone! See, your cell-phone  service thinks you called your house, but then your house gave you an  operator, and she connects you to a some other number, all the while your cell still thinks your talking to someone at your house! No minutes wasted, no charge! Understand?

Oooooh! I get it! Wow, that's amazing linear! I'm going to go do it right now!@$#%

Phiz's Scanner Guide Written by phizban the dark elf

Where to start....there's so much fun shit you can do with a scanner it's difficult where to start...well I guess I'll start with the basics, here goes an I hope this article doesn't suck.

Buying A Scanner
Shit fool to start scanning you gotta have a scanner... or something that picks up the local radio waves. There's about a million different models, Rat Shack, Bearcat, Tiger, etc.. Personally I have a pro-90 rat shack model trunk tracker (we'll cover trunk tracking later). What you need to decide first is what kind of range do I want my scanner to get? I recommend at least 800mhz or something that can be modified to 800mhz, why because that's where all the fun shit is... you'll see. Another thing you need to decide is what are you going to do with your scanner? Have it sit in your room or are you gonna want to carry it or what. For the serious field phreak I highly recommend a handheld model. You can run with it an shit. If you're kinda antisocial get a base set. Also there's tones of shit you can buy for your scanner too, the first thing I recommend is a new antennae. The antennae that comes with your scanner is cool, but if you get a larger antennae most of the time you can get a farther range on a specific frequency with better clarity.

Well, I Bought the Fukin' Thing, Now What Do I Do With It?
Yay, now you have your own 200 dollar piece of shit. What to do with it? Well if you can find a modification for it... mod it fool. Turn that shitty police scanner into a cell fone frequency scanner, in some models all you have to do is change around a couple of wires in others you have to do a complete overhaul. Mod'ing a scanner is fun, especially if you like to solder shit, unfortunately there are so many mods's for scanners I'm not going to include any an I'll let you find them on your own... its easy.

Now That I Have Some Freq Ranges, What's Cool To Listen To?
The answer to that is simple... everything! You can listen to the fired dept, the police, an ambulance, your neighbor.... last one caught your eye, didn't it? Yes you too can be a nosey little spy with your scanner. Wee. Portable fonez are by far the easiest to scan. Here's a freq list for most portables (most of these freqs where borrowed from someone but I forgot who):


Those freqs can be found almost anywhere! The next best thing to scan, which you usually have to have a modified scanner to get, is cell fone freqs... Here's some freqs:


And next up on the fun list is... fast food freqs:


Yay....

OK, I Have These Freqs And I Can Listen To These Fools, How Is This Fun?
This is great you can do anything from blackmail people, to call their houses and jump in the conversation, giggle, ok I'm tired ill write more later. Lates for now

Free Food From Fast Food Restaurants Written by Amer1can Zer0

Explained
Okay, this prank will basically allow you to get free fast food from anywhere.  It works all the time, if you don't use it too much.  Maybe once a month from each fast food place.  You can usually get by with this once or so a month.  Try it at as many different fast food restaurants as you wish. So far I have only tried it at Booger Kunt and McDickels.


Step-By-Step
First pick a fast food restaurant to fuck over.  This should be one you haven't been to recently, or that you haven't done this to in a while. Then, look up their number in the phone book and write it down in a special notepad! If you do that for every place to do this to, you won't need to keep looking the numbers up. After you find the number, plan what you are going to say. Say something like "I was just at your restaurant and I ordered a large coke, a cheese burger, and a large fry.  But instead you gave me a fish  burger and a small fry."  Now, make sure you tell them you ordered something big, but you got something smaller in return because then they will give you a coupon worth a larger amount. Then they'll ask for your name and address. Tell them it and they'll send it to your house.  You may want to make a fake name.  Then in 1 week or less you should have your free coupon.  Its easy as that!

               --- Amer1can Zer0

How To Burn A Computer From The Inside Out Written by Bor

Ingredients:

1. 3.5" floppy disk of any brand.
2. One VERY small piece of magnesium
3. One Eyedropper
4. Water to put in the eyedropper of course.

Instructions:

1. Open the floppy disk carefully. Make sure that you'll be able to put it back together once you're done doing what you're going to do.
2. Put the VERY small piece of magnesium on one side of the inside of the disk.
3. Put your water in the eyedropper, and put one or two drops of water on the other side of the disk.
4. This is the most important part to make sure that you won't get your ass burned. Put the disk together, but make sure that the water and the magnesium DO NOT TOUCH. If they touch, when that bitch sizzles, run away... fast.
5. Now that you have the disk put together, find the computer that you want to destroy.
6. Take the disk, and oh so carefully insert it into the floppy disk drive.
7. RUN!!!
8. Now from the computer you should see a very bright white fire, when the disk begins to spin. This will without a doubt fry most of the components inside the computer, and will make the computer impossible to use.
9. DON'T GET CAUGHT.

Remember. You shouldn't do anything that I wrote about above. It was just for joking purposes only. I would have said eductaional,  but, c'mon.

Follow-Up: File Sharing Exploit Written by Jolly Spamhead

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