CHEATING THE TELEPHONE.
CALL BOX FRAUDS. Telephone cheats have been very active in the Went Riding of Yorkshire, lately, Imt a Post Office engineer states that following the receipt of many complaints, the mechanism of tho prepayment call kiosks lias been satisfactorily altered to put a slop to this trickery.
As soon as the caller hears the voice of the person he has dialled he must press button 41 A ' to drop tho call money itiio the box. Certain persons, however, have avoided this by speaking down the receiver and then replacing it to the gear to get a reply. Afterwards they Have pressed button '• B" and got their pennies back.
" In the old coin boxes," tho, engineer added, " hairpins wero used to deceive tho operators into thinking money had been put in. This was done by pressing tlie hairpin on tho buzzer inside and sometimes tho dodger even went so far as to rnako the uoise himself with his mouth."
Tho authorities first became aware of these cheats through a bookmaker's agent boasting about his success at the game in a hostelry when a plain-clothes detective was present.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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189CHEATING THE TELEPHONE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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