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Subject: Re: free calls?
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In article <1990Aug6.124516.8051@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> sheasby@dgp.toronto.edu (Michael C. Sheasby) writes:
>
>The other day I was in a mall and noticed a few yahoos gathered
>around a pay phone... they looked around for cops and then
>unscrewed the receiver on the phone (the ear end, not the mouth
>end).
>
>They took out the small speaker and touched the two wires
>leading to it to the handset holder (the thing you put the
>phone back on when you finish the call). Then they dialed
>and quickly screwed the receiver cap back on. Apparently this
>saved them a quarter.

Well, now the phone companies are really gonna love this net...

Matthew Broderick pulled this scam in the movie "War Games" but I don't 
know if it works in the real world.  MOst pay phones have glued, or locked,
or sealed mouth peices anyway, so it'd be very difficult (and illegal)
to try tampering with them.

=steve=