That list is so fucking old.. I remember that from the grade school days when we'd use the recorder tape thing to play to a payphone to get it to make free calls anywhere, or the shit with the payphones where you dial a certain REALLY long distance phone number (which turned out to be some boat that was permanently docked in west bumblefuck) and cost $30/min or something ridiculous like that, and you call it, let it ring once, and then hang up, call the operator and tell her you just called that number, where the phone booth you were calling from was at, and how much you lost on the call. They would usually give you some excuses like "can we send a technician to your location?" and you just tell them no, because you have to leave. So they'd jot down your name and address, etc, and send you a check in the mail. But the real scam and beauty of it was that they never actually submitted the report, because there was no report. It was easier for them to just mail you a check for what you claimed you had lost than to ever get a technician over there or bother to investigate or fix it because so few people ever reported it. But yeah, the real beauty was that you could do it from the same phone 5-10 times in a row, and always get a different operator, and just go to the next public payphone on the block, and do the saaaaame shit again, over and over and over.. and they NEVER caught on nor did any operator EVER question it or say "hey didn't you just call us?" or "we have you down for a check already" -- it would just ALWAYS work, hahaha. A buddy of mine from school and some of his internet pals made a living doing it all throughout school.
Ahh those were definitely fun days..
