Making Money From Telus -Scribed By Lord Narayana                       1997
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A number available, and published in several skan lists already, by 2600,
by the Jolly Roger, by BTR, and a few others, provides you with an operator
recorded greeting with a request of $0.25! It's great for hours of fun, if
you want to disturb operators. Call them up from your home phone, and tell
them you have inserted quarter after quarter, but the call just is not going
through.. Oddly enough, they do not catch on to that you are at your home 
phone, and not at a payphone. (of course, this will work much better, if you
bounce operators.) If they do ask if you are at a payphone, then just tell 
them you aren't, and either give them your number as the payphone number, if 
they request it, or just say you don't know what it is, as someone usually
scratches out the number on the front of the payphone.

This recording, you might realize, can be used for collecting on overpayments
of a telephone call... Just dial the operator, preferably from a payphone,
and tell them that you put in quite a bit of money, but the call is not going
through. If they place the call for you, then it will be quite the surprise
for them.. Ask if they can insert a quarter for you. After a bit of searching
around, they will take your name, address, and send you money in the mail.

Often times, they offer to reimburse your telephone account. The way around
this - if you do not want to surprise your parents by paying off their phone
bill - is that you politely explain that you do not have an account, and
that is the reason why you were using a payphone to place this call.

There are a few things you should do before calling the operator.

This is calling the number from a payphone, directly. If you are on a 
Millenium payphone (with digital display), then a recorded voice will tell 
you to deposit $2.50. On the older payphones, a live operator will request 
that you deposit $2.50. The reason for this, is so that you can sound as if 
you were trying to place the call. If they ask for how much you deposited, 
and and you do not know the initial amount, then you might not seem to be 
authentic in your request for a refund. After telling them you inserted 
$2.50 as the recording requested, make it a point that the recording began 
requesting another coin, which you faithfully deposited. Tell them that you 
deposited another $2.50, because you thought you had to pay for the long 
distance time, ahead of time. Of course, it asked for more coins, so you 
inserted another dollar into the payphone before giving up, realizing that 
something was wrong with the payphone. You then phoned the operator.

The operator will become rather confused, but ask her to see if she can
connect with the number, just to make sure. She will, and will likely 
follow up with some sort of investigation for the number, attempting to
find out what the number is to, for, and who owns it. If she asks for
a name to who the number belongs to, then make something up. Tell her
that it is a number to a guy you met over the internet, named Sam Lewis,
and you aren't sure what state the number is in either.. Of course, when 
she phones the inward operators in Texas, or Arizona, and the operators 
there cannot come up with an answer, then she will come back and explain 
the entire situation to you, and give you your refund.

So if you follow the suggested plan, you can make six dollars, in a few 
minutes. It's probably higher than some of you are getting paid, if any
of you are working. If you don't believe that this can be done, leave me 
your name, address, and/or phone number and I'll have Telus provide you
with a full reimbursement for an overpayment at a telephone.

What do you recieve from Telus? No letter, just a piece of hard Telus
paper, with coins taped to it's holes... It's great that no questions are
asked. It makes our life a lot easier.