[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Anonymous phone calls
Trei, Peter wrote:
>
> Bill Stewart [SMTP:[email protected]] wrote:
>
> >At 05:49 PM 8/2/98 -0700, scoops wrote:
> >>Would some one be kind enough to suggest anonymous phone
> >>call services?
> >>I know about some supposedly untraceable 900# at $3.95 per
> >>minute. What about an anonymous prepaid service 800# or a
> >>calling card.
>
> >Sure - there's a much cheaper, easier approach. Go buy a
> >phone card. There are some phone cards that insist on being
> >recharged by credit card, but there are lots that you can
> >buy at your local convenience store that don't insist on it,
> >and the ones at ethnic grocery stores which let you call
> >Mexico or China at moderately outrageous rates are more
> >likely to be cash-only. Or you can go to your airport (if
> >you're not too paranoid about Them watching you :-) and buy
> >phone cards like The Official San Francisco Phone Card, in
> >return for US$20 bills.
>
> At about the same effort, you can be even more secure. Use
> cash. Change your $20 bill for a couple rolls of quarters
> and walk up to any pay phone that takes coins. Put in a
> quarter, and dial your number. You'll hear something like
> 'Please insert $3.50 for the first three minutes.' Shove in
> the coins, and talk. Works fine for long distance as well as
> local calls. Much cheaper than the 900#.
>
> If you use a calling card for more than a single call, those
> calls can be linked to each other. It may also be possible
> to trace where the card was sold.
>
> Peter Trei
> [email protected]
Also, even the private-switch operations selling cash-paid calling cards
have records of the calls made on their systems, though those records
might not be in a form that makes them readily linkable to the orginator
of a given call--it all depends on how much it's worth to the pursuer to
pursue you.
Richard Storey