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[PJ]

Does anyone remember a rip-off company called 'Development Products' based in Newport, Gwent - who advertised these items regularly in the Daily Sport:-

1. 'Amazing RF Jammer' - gives UNLIMITED CREDITS on fruit machines, fag machines, vending machines, etc - useless plastic box costing £250!;

2. 'Jackpot Bible' - how to play to best advantage, also how to turn 10p into 50p (as far as the machine can tell - you know the old foil trick), along with circuit diagrams for the RF Jammer and 'Coinmaster' (makes a machine go so mad it throws money at you) - none of these worked - totally useless!;

3. 'Free Phone Calls' - turned out to be just a manual dialler for listening to your own answerphone messages remotely;

4. 'Whopper Chopper' - penis enlargement device - didn't work at all, erm, so I heard...ahem;


...I could go on - I've heard the guys who ran this scam are up to their old tricks again, this time with horseracing 'advice'...be warned!

[RB]

re arrange the following words into a well known phrase or saying....


money soon parted his fool and a are......

What was the combined cost of learning the hardway???


LMAO

RB

[barcrest]

Well your not quite right. The old 10p with one side covered in the silver plumbers tape did make it read as a 50p in phone boxes, vending machines and the like. However i got this information for free from a guy at colledge so i didn't pay for it and i only used it once in a call box to see if it worked and it did. The other stuff is basically usless tat.

There was also a free phone call trick that involved finding a payphone with the volume controls on it. Put in £1 and then dial 99* and the £1 dropped out but still left you £1 calling credit. That one didn't last long either LOL but i never paid for that either, a mate who's dad was a BT engineer told us that one.

[Protocol]

I used that pound trick to phone my relatives in Hong Kong lol. Another thing i used to do back then was the filiment trick out of some lighter and click it on the machine, but it used to just reset the thing, and the only machine it affected was Big Bucks, when u sparked it on metal part around the buttons. lol....and this reminds me of them preset reset buttons that used to work...using the hold combinations something like 1,2,3,1,3,1,3,2. anyone know the button combinations that work on the newer £25 machines?

[RB]

the only fruit machine con i can remember using was the old metal stilletto comb into the coinmech to rack up credits....and a good pair of running shoes....

As for emptiers and guides...the original reel guide by Mr Hamilton £1.95 from W H Smiths...


RB

[barcrest]

I remeber a hold button trick to turn off all the lights on a machine called Nudge Buster or Nudge Banker or somthing like that. There were apparently lots of these codes back then simular to using a refill key to check the percentage etc so a guy told me who showed me the light trick. I'm sure there is a lights off tick for phsycho cash beast but don't quote me on that as it was a while ago and i never paid much attention to him.

[PJ]

What was the combined cost of learning the hardway???

Didn't cost me a thing as I didn't fall for it (well, the truth is, the scammers had already done a runner from their premises in Wales owing thou's in rent before I got tempted in any way...), but a few old friends of mine were done quite badly, mind you, the bloke who paid £250 for a plastic box with half-the-insides-of-a-portable-radio was earning £52k a year as a network designer at the time, therefore it didn't hurt him all that much, so I can LOL about it...

[f00n]

Clickers worked on.....

Banker (old 2p/£1.50JP ver)
Top the Lot
Top Take


Probably more too but thats the kind of area in a timeline your looking for.


Foil round a 10p (old ones not the recent smaller ones) did work for a while on many machines....as did lead quids


The phonebox scams are many....
My personal fav was when they changed form red phoneboxes to the newer ones you could put your money in, ring someone till the pips went then get them to hang up and you whack the panel underneath the numbers to retrieve your coin.
This sometimes took a hefty kick to do as they tried to bring the panel forward a bit to make it more difficult to do with your hands.
For real phone scams see google + phreaking or 2600.com



I personally can't wait to see what scams come out for the new £1,000,000 link machines they are about to put in casinos when they modernise Blackpool's gambling arena (also called the Golden Mile...or as I like to say ....the Green mile as you know you is gonna be broke )

Wireless networking you say?
Node routing ahoy is it?
data interception for dummies?

[Zoltar]

I used to have a 16 digit prefix number that I dialled before entering a phone number at a BT phone box that would render the call free. Someone put it out on eBay and it was stopped within a week or so. Telecoms engineers back then had it easy.

There was a mobile phone number too that displayed 'SIM CLOCK LOCKED' on a NOKIA phone and gave the user a 15 second window to make a free call. Again, it went public and was engineered out.

Compost

[buzzin_nutta]

Thats quite pointless anyway, by the time they answer the phone you could only say hello and hang up

[Zoltar]

Thats quite pointless anyway, by the time they answer the phone you could only say hello and hang up

lol, you had 15 seconds to dial the number, not make the complete call.

[PJ]

There was a mobile phone number too that displayed 'SIM CLOCK LOCKED' on a NOKIA phone and gave the user a 15 second window to make a free call. Again, it went public and was engineered out.

Does that mean it just won't work on newer phones?

[impact]

*#746025625* there u go ave it!

[PJ]

*#746025625* there u go ave it!

Yeh, I've already got that one, but will it still work on my 8210?

[jamiedotcom]

talking of phone boxes

then bt bought out the ring back when engaded serivce (press 5 if the line was busy and the phone would ring to tell u the line is now clear)

It also worked in phone boxes so free calls were to be had.

[FastGuy]

You used to be able to spin a 10p into the 50p slot on a video game in my local stations buffet back in the early 80s and it would register as a 50p Shame I never got it to work on a fruit machine.

I believe it was piezo electric lighters that were supposed to make fruit machines do funny things back then as well, but I never had one to try it out.

[ell-ess-dee]

Sorry to bring up, just read while doing a search..

You used to be able to spin a 10p into the 50p slot on a video game in my local stations buffet back in the early 80s and it would register as a 50p Shame I never got it to work on a fruit machine.

This is how i became a master on Out Run, an excellent trick.. Another good one was the old style space invaders games without a 'flip - door' on the return coin slot. If you put your finger underneath you could feel 2-3 slots - get a tuppence and flick it upwards through one of the slots and you got credit as if 10p was being inserted..

[nails]

1980`s barclays cash dispensers.. withdraw £5 and keep the flap open, insert your card again and withdraw £20 (this would use notes other than just fivers). While it is counting, squirt in a syringe full of sugary water. The notes all stick together, and it ends up giving you a wad of money, insted of £20.

phat

[jamesb99_1999]

Around 11 years ago I worked somewhere with a candy/snack machine with the turnaround coin nobs and the spiral payout. With these type of machine you just put newspaper or tissue in (instead of a coin/ or aswell as a coin) and if you have done it tight enough you can just keep turning until you have emptied the machine. It still works on the little sweet dispensing machines like the M&M ones you get around. Just put a penny wrapped in paper in and it works!!!