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- > Preface <
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- In Big Secrets Volume 2 we will be talking about: The Void Pop Up, The Magnetic
- Strip on credit cards, and the Post Office.
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- > The Void Pop Up <
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- What happens if you Xerox something you're not supposed to? Like money, stock
- certificate, or coupons... Well the copy usually comes out all yucky huh?
- But...if you use a good color copier you can usually produce a good, convincing
- counterfeit.
-
- The void pop up is what tries to stop all this from being done. It's a secret
- gimmick made to waste all us counterfeiters. When the document is copied that
- contains this gimmick a big 'VOID' will pop up. The void is hard to see, but
- the people who use it think that it must take a lot more guts to pass around it
- even with a hard to see void then without it.
-
- The American Bank Note Company invented this void pop up deal, but they didn't
- patent it. So everyone decided to use it themselves. It's become a common
- security device for most mediums...like Kentucky Fried Chicken, banks and other
- things.
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- The void pop up uses a screen - some dots that only appear as a grey pastel
- shade. The only thing that shows a difference is how dark the grey is. But it
- depends, the bigger the area the 'void' pop up covers the darker the grey.
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- Two screens could look different from the human eye, only because they grey was
- put on top of another color or by another color.
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- One of the screen prints the 'void' and the other makes the background for the
- letters to show up on.
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- See, a Xerox machine sees differently then a human eye does. One of the
- screens is chosen so the configuration. Dots will bleed together when copied.
- The screen comes out darker and in differ quality, leaving the 'VOID' visible.
-
- But wait, the system is not foolproof, because copiers vary. So the void is
- shown clearly on some machines and hardly noticeable on others.
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- Occasionally you can see a faint void on the original. So the poor people who
- don't even know about it can get in trouble for not even doing anything. There
- are some screen attachments for some copiers which will defeat the void pop up
- system, they will make a clean copy. This is bad for the people that use the
- void pop up technique, because in the future the copiers will just get better
- and better which means they will probably have to come up with a new idea to
- defeat them. Ha! There are other ways too so they are not in trouble they can
- still find ways to stop illicit photo copying. The 'prospects/new book news'
- is a New York newsletter, it is printed on red paper. Red shows up nearly
- black on black-and-white photo copiers so it would be quite hard to read huh?
- But 'prospects' could be copied on a color copier, and the black-n-white
- machines that have red filters.
-
- A light blue will not show up on copiers though so in a lot of publications
- they will now use a type of light blue pen to write in.
-
- Here is what computer world said about the light blue print:
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- The Diners Club, whose accounting system has been attacked by people trying to
- keep their accounts straight has found away to keep the complaint level down --
- especially the kind that are copied to various federal and state authorities.
- It won't stop the complaints entirely but will reduce the effectiveness in many
- cases.
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- What the Diners Club did was redesign the forms, printing much of the data in a
- non-reproducing blue. As a result, after it was stuck in the copy machine the
- output is unreadable, and certainly not very easy to read by the people who
- want to!
-
- But according to he Diners Club the light blue was just a coincidence, the logo
- was blue.
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- > The Post Office <
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- Did you realize that the post office is now run by computers, not all of it but
- a lot of parts. Computers now check to make sure a stamp is there, they do the
- stamping and all that..terrible huh?
-
- Well no, its actually very good for us, see the computer here only knows how
- many stamps should be put on the package or letter by how much it weighs, so
- you say big deal?! Well see that is * all * it knows, which means you can put
- a once cent stamp on your letter and be sure to drop it directly into a U.S.
- Mail Box, the guy will come and pick them up and drop them in the letter
- bin...there they are weighed and sent down into the computer and that will
- stamp them and all that. Well the computer does not know the difference
- between a 5 cent stamp, 1 cent stamp, or 20 cent stamp, it just makes sure one
- is there and if so stamps it.
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- So just think if the entire P.O. is someday run by computers how easy it will
- be to get your letters places.
-
- But for the time being you can use that technique and here are a few others:
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- 1) Putting the return address of the person you are mailing it to as I mean on
- the return address thing in the top corner, then make up a address for the send
- to: part, don't put a stamp on it drop it in a U.S. Box and the person who had
- their return address their will get it.
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- 2) Putting a coat of thin glue or something like that over the stamp will make
- it reusable, when stamped it will hit the glue, wash it off with warm water and
- poof! A new stamp.
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- 3) This is the slowest way of all but it works, our government has made a deal
- with the handicapped that they will send their letters 3rd class for free, and
- they do that! Just put 'MATTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED' or something where the
- stamp belongs.
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- > The Credit Care - Magnetic Strip <
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- Here is one more of the security devices on a credit card, the magnetic strip.
- Most people think there are all these personal details and stuff on the
- magnetic strip. But the magnetic has no more information then a blank tape.
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- The strip need not contain any information except for the account number or
- similar ID. With the account number the computer can just be called up and
- information be taken out...so there is no need to put it on the strip.
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- Also, the expiration date is on the strip. Expired cards are 'eaten' by
- auto-teller machines even when the expired card has the same account # and name
- as its replacement card. Credit limit, address, phone #, employer, etc.. Must
- not be indicated in the strip, for banks do not give out new cards just because
- this information changes. Many tellers have a special secret thing where if
- the wrong number is entered more then 3 times the card is 'eaten' by the teller
- machine, because it thinks the guy is a crook.
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- It is possible to scramble the information on the back of the card by rubbing a
- magnet over it.
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