Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Coin Station Fraud Using External Ground Message-ID: <6122@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 7 Apr 90 15:41:18 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: David Lesher Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 236, Message 7 of 14 There was another type of fraud that seemed to be common a few years ago in San Francisco. The {direct} victim, however was the user. Someone was opening the one side of the line. Folks would come up, not bother to listen for DTF, and drop in money. The powerless one_arm_bandit would hold onto the money. After half a day or so, the thief would come back, reconnect the pair, and collect all the money spilling into the return chute. I don't know if they ever caught him, but I noticed that motels along Lombard Street had signs for the desk clerk expaining who to call if the 'pay phone alarm' went off. On a larger scale, every so often mention shows up of person/persons unknown who can clean out a coinslot box in 30 seconds. Seems that the powers_that_be have been chasing {him,her,them} from coast to coast, following a string of now_empty slots. Whoever it is, they must eat a lot of vending machine candy bars to use up all those quarters. A host is a host from coast to coast.....wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu & no one will talk to a host that's close............(305) 255-RTFM Unless the host (that isn't close)......................pob 570-335 is busy, hung or dead....................................33257-0335