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the call knows what's happening.
Talk straight and businesslike for the first five minutes, as a snoopy
operator -- that's the way Ma Bell trains them -- might stay on the line that
long to listen in. Avoid sensitive subjects like your name, politics, drugs, or
dirty tricks since you never know who is recording calls these days. Break
off the call within twelve minutes. Obviously, your callee should act very
dumb when Ma Bell's security people do come to investigate a month or so
after the fraud is discovered. And don't let them intimidate you or your
friends, either. They're good at that -- many of them are former federal or
state police.
One Bell employee told me that their security people utilize warrantless
wiretaps, blackmail, and physical surveillance to catch persons suspected of
making bandit calls. The employee also told me these tactics are used
against persons who even publicize such practices. I consider myself
warned. So should you. Ma Bell can be one nasty mother.
By the time you read this, though, the game may be up. In
Washington state, the Supreme Court there upheld the conviction of a
newspaper for publishing the telephone company's secret codes. The
telephone company, which has both security and propaganda sections that
rival the government's, was working furiously behind the scenes to influence
the verdict.
Abbie Hoffman suggested this next trick, so if it doesn't work, call
him. Restrict Hoffman's idea to corporate, utility, or institutional telephone
systems. Cut the female end off an ordinary extension cord. Unscrew the
mouthpiece on the telephone in any one office. You will see a terminal for a
red wire and one for a black wire. Attach one of the wires from the
extension cord to the red and one to the black. Finally, plug the extension
cord into a power socket.
According to Hoffman, you are sending 120 volts of electricity back
through equipment designed for six volts. He says this will knock out
thousands of other telephones and the main switchboard, "if all goes right."
Even if his numbers are somewhat exaggerated, you've had a good day.
Mail Drops
These are essential if you're going to carry on any sort of
correspondence with a mark or with suppliers of services and equipment.
Depending upon the circumstances, you will need either a postal box or a
regular street-address mail drop. Post-office boxes may be obtained in any
name, although you will have to present some identification documenting
your "identity."
If your scam is a short-termer, pick an apartment with many little
boxes. Choose an empty one, claim it for the duration, and have it checked
daily. Put in your little name card and use that exact address on your
returns. The mail-delivery person doesn't know or care who comes and
goes. Or you can have a very cool and trusted friend front their address as
you as a mail drop. However, this person must be prepared and capable of
carrying off a very plausible denial. You'd better think this one through
before involving another person. Deniability can be a tough rap for an
amateur.
Mail
The Ku Klux Klan has some interesting strategies for spreading terror.
One of these is to collect from regional newspapers clippings of unsolved
arsons (or robberies, rapes, burglaries, assaults, etc.). If you need to fatten
the file, include clips from national publications too. Place the clips in a
manila envelope and tape it to an old gasoline can (or ax, bra, shotgun shell,
jimmy bar, etc.), which you leave on your mark's home or office doorstep.
David Williams is the pen name of a Texas state legislator who spends
his working hours as a freelance writer. He told about Jim Boren (pen name
of a friend), whose great idea for practical joking was to send single
entendre postal cards bearing personal, sexual, or medical messages to
William's home.
"Since I met Jim Boren, I hide from my postman," Williams notes.
Williams is not Boren's only victim. Many of his friends suffer from
postal cards such as the bogus Playboy Towers Memo that pointed out,
"Davie boy, thanks for taking care of my friend while she was in Austin. I
was envious when she told me how things went down. Love, Elvira."
Or this hotel postcard came from Hong Kong, addressed to Williams
via his pen name at his real address: "She's no longer at the topless bar. But
her sister at the massage parlor thinks she went to Seoul. I can pursue it at
the embassy, but will have to disclose your personal interest. Please advise."
It is signed by J. Harley, identified by a return address as "Harley's
Detective Agency" in New Orleans. There is no Harley, no agency, no
nothing at the return addresses.
Jim also sends cards to people's wives. One said: "Sorry, couldn't
make it this time. My wife came along."
One of Harley's better efforts at postal assassination was this gem,
sent from Toronto: "Thanks for your help with the bail money. You done
better by me than President Nixon did by his boys for doing about the same
thing. If I get the book thrown at me later, I'll ride it out, but I want a written
agreement on the money and I don't want you saying ugly things about me in
the papers if they learn about your personal role in this."
From Cleveland, Jim Boren sent David Williams this postcard: "The
cops found your name and address in one of the girls' diaries. They may be
in touch soon. -- A friend."
This next stunt is also accomplished through the mail. Posing as a
medical researcher, Elmer Surehe says, you can probably con some crablice
eggs from a supply house, for a price, of course. The eggs are inserted with
an innocuous business letter into an envelope addressed personally to the
mark. When the mark opens and unfolds the letter, the lice eggs drop onto
his/her clothing and surroundings.
It would make sense that nothing in this letter connect back to you, of
course. Some people have used the name and return address of another
mark. The resulting confusion will ensure that two marks are unhappy.
A critic felt that this tactic would be unfair because an innocent
secretary, business associate, or spouse might intercept the letter and receive
the dose. Two observations -- first, people shouldn't read personal mail
addressed to other people; and second, sometimes the innocent must scratch
along with the guilty.
A pulled-punch version of the lice-eggs letter is to use itching powder
instead. It's easily available from novelty stores, or you can make your own
following the directions printed in some of the formula books available.
Sneezing powder is another alternative.
A suggestion for a nastier ingredient came in from a former agent of
the American intelligence community who got paid a lot of money for
planning and implementing things like this. He suggests a chemical tear-gas
powder heavily laced into an envelope, noting, "It will clear a mailroom or
an office in minutes."
Marriage
Carol Sludge and a friend decided they should stage manage an entire
wedding for a mark. So they did. She handled the gown and bridesmaids'
goodies, and he did the sartorial bit for the men. They got invitations and
arranged for a church, a reception hall, a caterer, and an orchestra. They did
it all in the name of the mark and his fictitious spouse to be. They chose a
time when the mark was on vacation to send out invitations for the Sunday
the mark was due back in town. Everyone showed up for the ceremony --
everyone but the "bride and groom." Guests were somewhat miffed, and
merchants and others descended upon the mark at his place of business
Monday morning, wanting to be paid for goods and services.
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