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The iPhone is now one of the hottest new phones available today. It is one of Apple’s new top selling products which has greatly increased both their marketshare and stock prices. There are many great uses for iPhones which surpass all other cellphones out there: they are great for listening to music, searching the internet, viewing high-resolution graphics, and most recently viewing porn.

The technological feats of the new iPhones are key to the porn industry. The large high-resolution screen size, speedy Web access, and ease of use make the iPhone more than ideal for looking at porn. The device’s miniaturized version of Apple’s Safari software simplifies mobile access and streamlines the process of tailoring dirty sites for optimal viewing on the go.

“It’s by far the porn-friendliest phone,” says Devan Cypher, representative for San Francisco–based Sin City Entertainment. As evidence of the gadget’s rocketing popularity in California’s porn capital, the San Fernando Valley, numerous iPhone-specific porn sites have been launched in recent months. “There are a few hundred iPhone porn sites now in use,” says Farley Cahen, vice president of business development for AVN Media Network, the adult industry’s trade body. Many others are currently in the works targeting the iPhone 2.0, which goes on sale July 11.

Several leading porn players are getting ready for the 2.0 version of the Apple iPhone. Among them are Penthouse.com, Digital Playground, Pink Visual, and many others. The speed promised by the iPhone 2.0 is much anticipated. Google Trends, which measures Web buzz, shows a sharp increase over the past year in the popularity of the term “iPhone porn.”

Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock says the company doesn’t condone iPhone porn and will ban adult content from official applications, just as it has restricted adult content in the podcast section of the Apple store. But in no way can it prevent customers from accessing porn through the device’s browser.

The industry sees the iPhone 2.0 as having multiple advantages over the first model. For one thing, Apple’s new gadget is nearly twice as fast as its predecessor at loading Web pages, and even faster at running video, which is crucial for the porn industry. About a third of iPhone users watch video on their phone, according to Nielsen Mobile, which is nearly 10 times the number that watch video on other cell phones. Three out of four iPhone users are men with above-average incomes, and iPhone users spend heavily on entertainment. More than a third of iPhone users shell out more than $100 on phone and data charges every month, as compared with just one-fifth of other cell-phone users.

In 2007, the international market for mobile adult content reached $1.7 billion, according to Juniper, but they also estimate that this market will grow to around $13 billion a year after the 2.0 version of the iPhone hits the market.

Want to know if someone is lying to you over the telephone? Great News! There is a new phone card out there called LiarCard made by the same folks that brought you SpoofCard.

This service uses the most advanced voice analysis polygraph technology for personal use available today, accessible from any phone.

LiarCard “listens” to the millisecond changes that occur in the human voice when a sudden process starts in the brain and extract some of the attention needed to process the words.

Unlike other voice stress analysis technologies, LiarCard can analyze different layers in the voice while providing an in-depth view into the subject’s range of emotions.

LiarCard can detect if your subject is excited, confused, stressed, unwillingly sharing information, concentrated, anticipating your responses and even if your friend really likes you… it can also tell when a person is lying with a proven 95% accuracy rate!

LiarCard has over a 95% accuracy rate and uses the same technology developed by the Israeli Intelligence Agency. This was demonstrated on the hit MTV show, Exposed!

LiarCard is easy to use:

- Dial the toll-free access number provided to you.
- Input your personal PIN.
- Input the destination phone number of the party to be analyzed.

Once your call begins, you’ll be able to engage in a natural conversation without the need to ask direct questions like “are you lying?”, remember it’s not what is said, but how it’s said that matters.

During the call, a heartbeat pulse is played in the background which only you will hear. When the called party is stressed about what is said then you’ll hear it beat quicker and then slow down again if they’re being truthful. A buzz is played when the called party is suspected of not telling the truth or is in an extreme state of mind. There is also a web interface which you can watch while you are talking to your subject as seen below.

While on the phone with your subject, sign in to your web-based dashboard to watch the truth indicator move as your subject is speaking.

All calls used by this service are automatically recorded. You can log into the web interface at anytime in the future and review your calls and review the graph as the person speaks to determine exactly when they were lying!

LiarCard sells 30 minute cards for only $10. They also offer a FREE trial call on their site to prove that their service actually works.

I tried out the service and was totally impressed. It’s well worth the cost and this will definitely be helpful in the future.

Just think how much better off you might if you could find out if a particular person was lying to you about something. This card allows you to know the truth! It gives you a certain piece of mind that you can’t get else where!

Back in the 1980s local telephone carriers across the country set aside the telephone prefix, 976, so that companies and individuals could set up premium phone services where they could charge a high per-minute or per-call rate to anyone calling into these numbers.  

These 976 numbers are exactly like 1-900 numbers except they are generally limited to the local calling area.  So unlike 1-900 numbers which are national these 976 numbers only work within the same area code.  

However these 976 numbers have a big advantage over 1-900 numbers.  The 976 numbers are one easier to dial than 1-900 numbers (both intentionally and accidentally), less people know about 976 numbers and thus don’t realize that they will be charged when they call these numbers, and these 976 numbers appear no different than normal residential or business phone numbers.

So get a 976 number and NOT a 1-900 number, this scam won’t work well with a 1-900 number, but it works great with a 976 number.

Only Still Available in Certain Areas

In some areas 976 numbers are no longer available and have been completely replaced by 1-900 numbers, however these 976 numbers are still available in many local areas.

On the west coast, the 976 service is operated by SBC/Pacific Bell/AT&T Telephone and is known as a ‘local 900 service’.  This service is only offered within the state of California and to California callers.  There is a similar 976 service available in Nevada through Nevada Bell/AT&T Telephone.

In the mid-west, SBC (formerly Ameritech) offers 976 services in Chicago and Detroit.

On the east coast, Verizon operates ‘976′ in a variety of markets. In New York city, Verizon quit the market and ‘976′ transport and billing are operated by smaller private companies in New York Cities.

In the Mid-Atlantic area , Verizon has received permission for the Public Services Commission to cease taking new customers after October 18, 2004. Verizon plans to close 976 operations in Washington, DC and baltimore, MD in June 2005, and in Philadelphia, PA and Pittsburgh, PA in 2006.

Setup the 976 Service

You will need to contact one of the phone companies above and request a 976 number from them.  Setting up this service is no different from setting up a second telephone line.  There is no special equipment required.  It’s normal have a one-time setup fee of around $59-79 depending on your local company and a monthly fee of around $49 which will also give you unlimited local calls.  The charges don’t stop there, they generally also charge you one-third of any of the money that you make from the incoming calls.

Setting up the Per-Call Fees

I prefer charging my callers a per-call fee rather than a per-minute charge.  You need to keep the per-call fee lower than $2 per call.   This is important, don’t be greedy. 

The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) requires all 1-900 numbers and 976 numbers which charge more than $2 per-call to provide a free 20-second message at the beginning of the call describing the service, the name of the company providing the service, and the cost of the call. It also must state that anyone under age 18 needs parental permission to complete the call.  You cannot start charging until 3 seconds after this message has been completed, which would bot call your bluff and give them plenty of opportunity to hang up.

But if you charge under $2 per call you are NOT required to provide this message and can immediately charge them as soon as the connection is made.  I would charge them $1.99 per-call to keep it just under $2 to be safe.  Also people are not likely to dispute or even notice a small charge of $1.99 on their phone bill because it is so small. 

Since you are only charging $1.99 per call you will need a high volume of callers to make it worth your wild.

Getting Tons of Callers

There are three easy ways to get callers.

1) Call up people and hang up or make a prank call.  Most people nowadays have caller id so make sure that your number is not blocked and many of these people will return the call without even thinking about it to see who just called them.  Each of them will be charged $1.99 per-call.

2) Get the yellow pages and call businesses such as doctors offices, dentists, and other businesses after business hours.  You will reach their voicemail, answering machines, or answering services.  Leave them a voice message asking them to return your call and give them your 976 number.  You will be surprised how many of them actually do return your call without even thinking about it.

3) Page or text people and ask them to call you at this number.  Some websites offer text spoofing so you can make it seem like the text messages are being sent from this 976 number causing them to assume that it’s just a cell phone number.

Provide a Service

To meet FTC regulations you must provide some sort of service.  You don’t have to go into details about it or the charges since you are charging less than $2 a call, but you must provide something to them.  I would suggest setting up a simple recorded message on an answering machine giving them useless information or either their daily horoscope, any local auto auctions, or on local real estate.  It can be anything, but you need to provide them with something to stay within FTC guidelines - even though most people will just immediately hang up.

How Much Can You Make

For example if you get 1000 callers in a month, you will get a revenue of $1990 and then the phone company will charge you $670 (one-third of your billings) for the service and a $49 monthly fee.  So you will make a profit of $1271 per thousand callers.  Not bad at all!

So 2000 callers will make you a profit of $2542 and 5000 callers will make you $6355.  So you can make quite a bit from this if you get enough callers.  The cool thing is that you leave voice messages for people to call this 976 number from any phone and it doesn’t have to be from the actual 976 number.

This scheme works really well and it can make great money for you if you pull it off correctly.

Here’s a quick trick to make a few extra dollars by harvesting money from pay phones.  

Find a traditional pay phone like the one pictured above, try to gain access to the phone wiring either through the plastic shroud running down the wall, the junction box, or through the telephone enclosure.   There are two sets of wires coming out the back of the pay phone enclosed in a black insulated casing. 

If you strip the black insulation away from these wires.  You will see four colored wires.  The regular telephone operations are handled by the green wire, “tip”, (electrically positive) and red wire, “ring”, (electrically negative).   The coin mechanism relays and solenoids are powered by the yellow and black wires.

Find a section of the wire where a cut will not be easily seen from outside the telephone box.  Strip off the black insulation off the cord, exposing all four wires. Now cut the black and yellow wires but leave the other two wires intact.  This will disable the coin mechanism, but the phone itself will still be completely functional.

Now conceal the wiring that you cut either by tucking it back into the telephone enclosure and concealing them or by closing the actual telephone box.

Now leave the phone and people will come by and use the phone.  What will happen?  Well, when they put money into the pay phone, it will stay in the coin mechanism until 1 of 2 things happen.

1. They connect their call, talk, and then hangup.  After they hangup, their money goes from the coin mechanism into the collection box.
2. They call a number that doesn’t answer, or get busy signal, or terminate the call before anyone answers, and then hangup. When they hangup, the money goes from the coin mechanism to the coin return.

However, since the black and yellow wires have been cut the coin mechanism is disabled so the money does not go to the coin collection box or the coin return, it just remains in the coin mechanism area.

All you do now is come back a few hours or days later and re-connect the black and yellow wires, pick up the handset and then hang it up.  All the money that was put into the phone that day comes shooting out the coin return.  It’s not unusual to collect between $10-15 per busy pay phone using this method.

I would suggest doing this during the weekend especially on Sunday because some people will call the operator and tell them that the phone took their money and they will dispatch repair people.  I would guess that these repair people work less on the weekends so the phone would most likely not be fixed until Monday.

This trick can only be used to make some extra change, it won’t make you rich or provide any sort of reoccurring income like some of my other scams that I have talked about previously, but it’s a neat little trick.

Go to all the cellphone stores in your area, sign up all the demo phones for your very own premium SMS text service, and make $9.99 per demo phone!  Find out how.

Every now and then I receive a random text message on my cell phone.  Sometimes it’s a horoscope reading, sometimes it’s a random stock pick, sometimes it’s a weather report and other times its just some advertising spam. 

I initially thought that it was just an annoyance so I would simply either ignore or delete the message.  I bet the majority of people have the same type of reaction in this situation.

However sometimes the messages reoccur and other times they do not.

Either way at the end of the month I recieve my cell phone bill only to find that I have an additional $4.99 charge for a “third-party” service!

I call up my cell phone company and ask them what this charge is for and they tell me that’s it either a subscription or one-time text messaging service.  They go on to tell me that I can’t cancel through them or get a refund because these charges are from a third-party company and not my actual cellphone carrier.

They simply tell me to reply to all further text messages with the words: STOP or CANCEL to prevent these text messages from reoccurring.  This will cancel the service from here on out, but it will not refund any current or previous charges.

So what does this mean?  This means that you will still be charged for the initial text message regardless of whether you cancel the service immediately and that this “third-party” company could be getting anywhere between 99 cents and $9.99 for sending you this single text message.

I checked my previous cell phone bills from past months only to find that there were similar charges those months that I did not even notice! 

Initially this made me angry, but once I thought about this ingenious business model, I immediately wanted in! 

I bet that at least 70% of the people who receive these type of text messages don’t even notice that they are being charged for these extra services and just pay their bills. 

Background

This type of service is known as Reverse SMS billing or a premium SMS service where companies can bill a user through an SMS text.  This even goes beyond just charging for text messages.  Services like PayPay or GPay allows people to send and transfer money via SMS. People can also charge money to their cell phone account with similar types of services.

Where this money goes

I did some research on this type of third-party text message billing and found that these companies make between half to a third of what they bill, the cell phone company takes one-third and the payment gateway service also gets one-third.

So if they charge 99 cents per month and bill 30,000 people they will be making approximately $10,000 per month.

If they bump this up to $4.99 per month they will be making over $45,000 per month.

So how do YOU set up this type of service?

Companies like Telemedia and TextMarks allow people to set up their own text messaging services for free.

Textmarks is the easiest service to use and allows people to set up a keyword for use on their short code of 41411.

You could set up the keyword, MakeMoney, and when anyone sends an SMS text with the word, MakeMoney, to 41411. They would be signed up for your premium SMS service for either $4.99 or $9.99 per month depending what you want to charge for your service.

Now the difficulty is advertising and getting people to sign up for your keyword.  Unless you want to go the spamming route like many companies do.

Bulk SMS messaging

There are services out there like ClickaTell which allows users to send bulk SMS messages to thousands or perhaps millions of cellphone users.

You could also write a web-based application to do bulk PC-to-Phone SMS texting. 

To stop the use of spamming some of the premium SMS services requires all potential subscribers to reply with a “Y” indicating that they actually understand the charges and want to subscribe to the service.  However, this could potentially be countered and defeated with SMS text spoofing or by writing a web-based application to sign people up for your text service regardless of whether or not they have actually willingly subscribed.

Signing tens-of-thousands of people up for your premium SMS service requires a bit work however it could be highly rewarding and bring in thousands of dollars per month.  However there is an easier way to make a couple hundred per month with much less time and work involved.

Bill the Cellphone Companies Back

Go to all the cellphone stores in your area and sign up all the demo phones for your premium SMS text service! 

In my immediate area there are 3 Sprint/Nextel Stores, 4 AT&T stores, 4 Verizon stores, 3 T-Mobile Stores, and 1 Helio Store.  These 15 cell phone stores had a total of 328 active demo phones that I was able to sign up for my $9.99 a month service.

After the cellphone companies take their cut (~33%) and the premium SMS billing gateways take their cut (~33%).  I am left with $3.00 per subscriber, not too bad, but not great.  Better than nothing though!  So with 328 subscribers at $3.00 per month I am making an easy $984.00 per month.  That’s a decent car payment (this may even cover rent for some people)! 

The Process:
1) Sign up for a shortcode keyword.
2) Set your keyword for premium billing (either $4.99 or $9.99 per month).
3) Go to your local cellphone store and use all the demo phones to text your keyword to their 41411 short code.
4) Clear out all inboxed and sent text messages from phones.
5) Repeat this process at more cellphone stores.
6) Wait for them to mail you a check for approx $1.50 per subscriber ($4.99) or $3.00 per subscriber ($9.99). The more subscribers you have the more you make!

I am billing the cellphone companies back and they are paying for it!  I got my
first check last month.

And things are just getting started…

If I head further into the bay area there are hundreds of cell phone stores with thousands of demo phones so my subscriber list is sure to increase!  I can sign up more phones at my leisure.

Also, the cellphone companies get new phones every few months so this would allow me to return to these stores and sign up all their new phones for my premium service.  Things are just getting better and better!

So what is your take on these premium SMS scam ideas?

Today I am trying to devise a system which would allow me to be able to make unlimited cellphone calls for just $39.99 a month.

To put this system into action I need the following:
- ($39.99/month) A basic cellphone plan with unlimited calls to/from one or more phone number.
- ($49.99 for kit) ApogeeKits telephone remote control electronic set.
- ($32.99/month or $9 month) A landline with unlimited nationwide calling and 3-way calling.

Basic Cellphone Plan

Several cell phone companies offer plans that allow their subscribers to make unlimited calls to their most frequently called number(s), for example:

Sprint - offers a Basic Cell Phone Plan for $34.99 a month and you can add on Unlimited PCS to Home Calls for $5 more a month, making this total plan amount $39.99 a month. This plan would allow you to make or receive unlimited calls to/from your home number for no additional charge.

T-Mobile - has the favorite 5 plan where you can make or receive unlimited calls to up to 5 different numbers for $39.99 a month.

ApogeeKits Telephone Remote Control

ApogeeKits makes a remote control via telephone electronic kit which allows a person to use a telephone to turn up to three devices on or off, adjust a thermostat, enable and disable an alarm system or activate a combination lock remotely over the phone line. They sell this kit for only $49.99.

Landline with Unlimited Nationwide Calling

I currently have unlimited nationwide calling on my homephone line through Trinsic that I pay $32.99 a month and this plan includes 3-way calling, caller id, call forwarding, call waiting, voicemail, etc. AT&T offers a similar unlimited landline phone package for $39.99 a month.

You could also use a VoIP or similar type of service like Vonage ($24.99/month), Comcast Digital Voice ($33.99/month), TelaSIP ($9/month), or ViaTalk($8.29/month) and pay even less.

My Plan

My plan is to wire this kit to my home telephone so that I can call into my home phone number from my cellphone, press a command *3 and have my home phone flash over to 3-way calling, which would create a dial tone from my phone line, I would then be able to enter the number that I wanted to call (using the combination lock feature) and the call would be made from my landline instead of my cellphone. Doing this would use zero of my actual cellphone minutes and I would thus be able to make unlimited outgoing calls without being charged any additional usage.

I could also forward this landline to my cellphone so that I could also receive unlimited calls, but I will need to somehow utilize caller id to prevent any calls made from my cellphone from being immediately forwarded.  I am still working on adding a caller id circuit into the system.

This kit also enables you to set up a 4-digit pin code to protect your line from unauthorized use.

I could even set up an 800 or 866 number on my home line that would allow me to make unlimited calls from any payphone or any other phone, however getting your own toll free number can get expensive, so I will probably skip doing this.

I am really surprised that no-one else has thought of doing this. One guy set up an Asterisk@Home Linux Phone Server to do something similar, but I want to build a simple electronic kit that can be placed inside an actual landline telephone so anyone without any technical knowledge, can simply plug this special phone into a regular home phone jack and be ready to take advantage of this trick.

If all goes well I will make special phone which will look like an ordinary home phone with a built-in answering machine which can be simply plugged into any home phone jack.

One-Time Set Up:

The user could set up a pin code, by lifting the receiver and entering command #29, they would hear a beep and they could enter any 4-digit pin that would protect the phone line from unauthorized use. There would be a switch on the side of the phone which would determine if the home line would ring once or three times before being forwarded to the cellphone. You would need to forward your homephone to your cell phone using your landline phone service. You are now ready to make or receive FREE unlimited phone calls.

To make a FREE outgoing call from your cell:
- Call your home phone number.
- Press *3, you will hear a reset and then a dial tone.
- Dial the number you wish to call.

I have not worked with regular analog telephone systems for years. Phreaking and telephonry went out in the early 90s, everyone now focuses on cellular phones and these old telephone remote controls are not often used anymore.

If I can get this to work I may one day sell these phones. However, the cell phone companies may one day offer unlimited calling for a reasonable rate and this would make a system like this obsolete, however I doubt that this will happen anytime soon because they make way too much money on the per-minute over usage charges.

I am still working a few issues out in getting this to work well, I will write back in a week or so and report on any progress and provide more details on how to do this. 

Spoofcard offers you the ability to change or spoof what someone sees on their caller ID display when they receive a phone call. 

You can use this service to MAKE ANY PHONE NUMBER APPEAR on the caller id of the person you are calling, CHANGE YOUR VOICE, record your calls, and even GAIN ACCESS TO OTHER PEOPLE’S VOICEMAIL!

To make a call, you call into a toll-free number that they provide to you and then enter your access pin number. They will ask you to provide the 10-digit number of the person you wish to call and ask you to provide the 10-digit number that you would like to appear on the caller id.

You also have the option of digitally changing your voice to sound different, or making your voice sound like a deep pitched man or a high pitched woman. You can also record and review any calls made through the system.

With this service your calls are totally untraceable because the calls are actually made from the Spoofcard servers independently from the phone you are using.

You can get 60 minutes of talk time for only $10!

Spoofcard’s purchase page is very straight forward - select your purchase amount, either $10, $20, $40, or $80 worth of call time, enter your email address and your done. Your account is activated instantly and your PIN number and toll free access number are delivered to the email address you entered on buy page.

MAIN TRICK:

You can fool your friends or other people with this service by using this to make calls that appear to be have been made from THEIR phone number. Everyone will think that THEY made the call because THEIR number will appear on the caller id.

SECONDARY TRICKS:

Use the voice changer to mess with people and record the call.

BONUS TRICK:

If you want to break into someone’s voicemail you can simply enter their phone number as the number you wish to call and provide the exact same number as the number you wish to appear on the caller id. Their voicemail system will think that the call is being made from the home phone number or from their cellphone handset and pass you directly into the voicemail without verifying a passcode.

It makes it seem like you are trying to call the same number that you are calling from and this is usually enough to gain access to most voicemail systems!

This works especially well on cellphone voicemail systems. Both the Cingular Wireless and T-Mobile USA telephone networks use Caller ID to identify voicemail users without requiring passwords. So users on either network are totally vulnerable to this trick.

IN THE NEWS

There was even an article a while back talking about how Paris Hilton got into trouble for using this service to break into Lindsay Lohan’s voicemail. Paris also made harassing calls and made them appear to be made from Lindsay’s cellphone.

Read this article by clicking here.

Key Benefits:

- Make calls truly private and untraceable.
- Ability to record calls.
- Change your voice.
- Pretend to be someone else.
- Get access to someone else’s voicemail.
- Use their service to block your number from toll-free numbers which cannot be blocked using *67 because they have ANI (Automatic Number Identification) technology that cannot be blocked.

Click HERE to be brought to Spoofcard’s website.