Title: Verizon Ghost Phone Call

Written: 04/01/03

Author: DarkKnight

Summary: Have Verizon and want to mess with someones head in your house by having the phone 
         ringing until picked up? Like your mom or dad or sister or brother? And when picked 
         up, start giving a 'beeeeeeeep' noise?

Warning: This article is useless...it doesnt do anything, but annoy people. If you lost interest
         already, then dont read on.

Disclaimer: DarkKnight cannot get introuble for anything you do with this. This is perfectly 
            legal to do though, I'm just putting it in here out of habbit. However, some schools
             may take action if you get caught when doing this, so look out for that alright?

Article: Making a verizon payphone/house phone ring is as easy as 123. Its also very annoying 
         because the phone does not stop ringing until someone picks it up, which means if 
         you're by like 2,3,etc pay phones, you can have them all ringing and when people walk 
         by them, they will most likely pick them or just walk away thinking "what the hell". 
         Now, enough of the blah blah blah'ing, time for the good stuff. Alright, if you're 
         reading this and are about to do this to your house phone, I recommend using a 
         non-cordless phone because you're going to need to be able to hang up the phone 
         easily and most, if not all, non-cordless phones have a little button (dont know 
         the correct name) that needs to be pressed down by the phone to make it hang up. 
         Its easy using a cordless phone too though, so don't worry if you dont have one.  
         Anyways, dial the following numbers '958' (Note: Don't dial your area code before
         dialing this). After dialing '958', dial the last four digits of your phone number.
         Alright, now to the 'slightly' harder part. Wait until you get a dial tone...after 
         you get one wait about 2 or 3 seconds, then hang up the phone two times, pausing 1 
         second between each hang-up (Note: Leave the phone hung-up so that you dont have to 
         hold down the button if you're using a non-cordless phone). If done correctly the pay 
         phone/home phone that uses verizon as its service, should call back and ring until it 
         gets picked up. If you're doing this to pay phones to annoy people or see if they'll 
         pick em up or some stupid crap, then it is best to do it at a very populated area, like
         a mall or at school (it annoys the janitors and stupid curious students will have the 
         urge to answer the phone). Alright, I have noticed that verizon has some telephones 
         that do not allow the dialing of 958 + the #s. They say crap about needing to insert 
         50 cents (expensive bastards)...well, I havent tried it yet, but if your willing to 
         risk 50 cents to do a stupid trick then try the following. Dial 958 and the last four 
         digits of the pay phone. Hang up twice with intervals of 1 second as usual and press 
         down the little handle thing to get your money back...I'd like to also note that the 
         phone number of the pay phone is usually right below the the hanging up part of the 
         phone, the lever-like part where the speaker part of the phone hangs from. Well, have 
         fun with this useless trick.