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- Big Secrets Volume #1
- by: The Wyvern
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- In big secrets volume one we will be talking about credit cards, the lie
- detector test & fingerprints with alarms.
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- (> Credit Cards <)
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- Well when they made the credit card they put three things on it, which were
- supposed to be top secret, they did not want a person to know what they did or
- what was behind them. The three things I'm talking about are: the account
- number, the signature panel, and the magnetic strip.
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- Well let's see here, most things I have seen have 6-10 digits right? Yet
- credit cards have around 20 digits, why? Well its not necessary of course for
- a credit card to have that many, but it does! Each card holder must have a
- unique number of course though. Visa has maybe 70 million card holders at this
- time, Mastercard too. Which leads us to 70 million available numbers!
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- There are one hundred million possible combinations of eight digits, from
- 00000000 to 99999999. So eight digits would be enuf. To allow for future
- growth, Visa could have 9 digits-enuf for one billion different numbers!
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- In fact, a Visa card has 13 digits and sometimes even more. And American
- Express has 15 digits. Diners Club cards have 14. Carte Blanche has 10. They
- are obviously not expecting billions of card owners with those digits. But all
- the extra ones are only a security device. I mean if they were 4 digits each
- most people would have no problem getting themselves 3232 fake credit cards!
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- Say your Visa number is 4321 876 132 564. Each purchase must be entered from
- a sales slip. The account number tags your purchase to your account.
- Sometimes the sales people get bored and enter the wrong number. There are 10
- trillion possible 13 digit Visa numbers. Only about 65 million of those are
- working accounts! Which means it is very hard to find one. Those are slim
- odds to find the number you could fill up a book full of 13 digit numbers.
- Still you would not duplicate a Visa account number.
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- Then we have Mastercard of the quadrillion possible combos only about 11
- million are active accounts. Among other things, that makes it possible for
- them TV, radio and other ads to invite card holders to call up and order. How
- can they be sure the guy even has a card?
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- They must base there confidence on the security of the credit carding system.
- If someone calls up even making sure to use the right number of digits the
- number will surely not exist. To be practical the only way to get a credit
- card number is to get it right off the plastic card.
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- So how do I get the credit card numbers you ask? There are two very easy ways
- that you can use anytime, one is getting it off the old copy that was run off
- in the store, so if they don't throw the copies away pick them up and it's
- yours..then you can also do this very simple trick over the phone:
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- You: This is bank 1. We are calling to tell you that the credit limit on your
- Mastercard has been raised to twelve hundred dollars.
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- Person: but my limit has always been 10,000 dollars!!!
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- You: Hmmm.. There must be some error or problem in the computers. Do you have
- your card handy? Could you read off the number?
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- Right there the person is very worried and wants his limit back so of course he
- gives you the number.
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- The signature panel and magnetic strip will be covered in later volumes.
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- (> Alarms and Fingerprints <)
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- Lets make this fast so we can get to the lie detector part. This trick is
- quite simple. You walk into a big business office that has it so you must
- enter a certain number of digits before you can enter. Then it will open the
- door for you. So you go over and clean off the panel and wipe out all the
- fingerprints, stand outside the door and wait for a guy to go in. He will
- punch the numbers and go in. Take out sum fingerprint dust and you will see
- the digits. Write them down....you now know that those digits in some kind of
- order open the door!
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- (> The Lie Detector Test <)
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- I'm sorry but because of my rush to start typing: How to Write an Adventure
- Tutorial section I will have to cover this in a coming up volume.
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- .....be looking for it in volume 2.....
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- Yes the lie detector test! The signature panel on credit cards the void pop-up
- a little metal slip is fun.
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- ))) lato! The Wyvern/300 (lub (((
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