WildMan's Wonderful Guide to: ---- _ / / \ ---- \___ __ +---+ /\/\ / \ / | | / \ / ____/ \__ | | / \ /___ Published: 10/18/92 Welcome back to all my adoring fanz and all you other scum! This is about my 12th phile so enjoy, hail praise to your gods, etc. Since the need for scams is great and most fuckheads don't know jack, here goes another WildPhile.. Hey hey, I cam up with a name for these suckers! Anyone that has something worth writing about, do it! One thing there will never be a shortage of HD space for is philes man! Well well well. Welcome to Scamming 101, your prof is Wildman! I'll do some of the basic characteristics of social engineering, why they work, etc and then move into some of the better scams I have come up with in kick ass boring english classes. Original Scams work best, but some never die. Scams work because most (note most) of the people in the world are brain-dead idiots. They always look for guidance and a chance to look like they know something. You can fool most of the people all of the time. One way of getting information out of people is to give them reason to believe you can give them something (help, information, security) for nothing. There are many methods of adapting this to reality. One of my favorite scams is to call up a UNIX operator posing as a AT&T rep checking for data line problems in the area. Then you get the password out of him, BS around, tell him everythings ok and thanks for using AT&T. See, he thinks he's getting a line check for free, so shithead gives you the password. Get the idea? Another really good way is to make it so they'll look stupid if they don't know something. This DOES NOT work well with females. They have none of this male-ego thing. (I hope not, anyhow) Anyhow, you call the guy up and use questions to get your point across, like, "There have been some attempts f illict use of your credit/calling card. You're aware of what that means, right?" or "There has been (line noise/problems/alien infestation) of the phone lines in the area. You know what that can do to your system, right?" Another good way is to take advantage of publictity against hackers in the area, by switching around techniques, and freely stating that hackers are looking for codez. "Hello, I'm from Visa, you are aware of the recent rash of attempts to gather the numbers of Visa cards, (wait for response) We'd like to make sure that hasn't happened........" It's pretty basic. With females, most anyhow, you can play the whores by taking command. It sounds sexist (really) but it does work. Pretty simple right? I thought you'd think it was. That's the basics: May i reccommend a Psyche 101 course, or get a college level psychology book and read it. It's incredibly useful information. (Also great for picking up females/getting them into bed, trust me!) Some of my more memorable scams (i.e. the ones that WORK) The Input-Number Scam You'll need a tape recorder and a telephone mike for this one. Call up the idiots, give them the line about their card being used, etc, but when you ask for their number, tell them to input it carefully into their touch tone phone. Tape it. Tell them your computer will scan it so you will never know it. Use all that publicity against them. This is amazingly good: I have never been refused. Even better for Calling Card Numbers. The Polling Scam Need to find out who has cards and who doesn't? This works really good during elections, and best of all, the referendum. (Yeah, I'm Canadian -- Bite me) Just make a poll, and call people. Be real nice and hospitable, have a chat, etc. They'll tell you their life stories. It works best with higher-class neighbourhoods. The Password Scam Need to get a password ya cant hack? This is the scam to try. Get the number of the Unix or whatever and do a CN/A on it. (Customer Name/Address) I'm not getting into that, it's simple, get the CN/A number for your state and call. Get the name, look it up in the book, have a chat voice posing as AT&T and you'd like to check their dataline. Say you cna do it there, as a real AT&T rep would ahve 2 lines. Call on the computer ask for a password, on the other line ask lots of STUPID questions so the guy 'll feel superior. The Female Scam Funny name, eh? Well, it's real simple: Get your girlfriend or a female phreak (What a stange occurance: All you ladies can reach me at the Cellar..) to do your scamming, females are never suspected of doing anything illegal or quasi-illegal and can ALWAYS play the dumb act. The Lineman Scam This is awesome for getting stuff from trucks. Call up AT&T and say you are having problems with your phone, open a jack and fuck up the wires. They'll send a lineman over. He'll see the problem and go to it. While he's doiing that have some friends look though his truck and rip him off. Be friendly, offer him a coffee, ask how the network works anyhow, how they handle all those calls, etc (you may learn something) ... Stupid fuck don't know who ripped him off. You can make this better if you can get a witness so if he comes back, you can say that ths guy saw some kids in his truck, wearing jeans and sneakers.. (general, go-nowhere discription) Those are a few of my best, that I think should be released to the public at large, I'm a nice guy. Feel free to modernize them in 20 years if this phile exists then! Anyhow, until later, WildMan out Captain! END: 92/10/18 01:34:40