[RKDinOKC]

Be best one I pulled by far was on a friend. We were connecting our computers back and forth with modems working on the coding to write modem software for his computer. It was a Timex Sinclair 1000.

During one such call I disconnected my number and re-connected in with an anonymous service number. Then I started sending terminal commands to reconnect with the terminal on his computer and locked out the keyboard so he couldn't type or even turn his computer off. Then I sent a file that filled his screen with the following text over and over...

ATTENTION ATTENTION **** THIS DATA CONNECTION WAS INTERRUPTED DUE TO VIOLATION OF FCC STANDARDS. THE NUMBER IS BEING TRACED. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DISCONNECT ***** ...
After a couple of screens I sent...

***** TRACE SUCCESSFUL. NUMBER IS 405 755 2534 YOU WILL BE CONTACTED BY THE FCC. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ESTABLISH DATA CONNECTIONS ON THIS LINE. *****

Then I sent the codes to turn off his computer, then his modem.

Waited a couple of minutes then tried to call a couple of times with my modem. His phone answered but not his modem. So I called voice and asked what was going on. He was freaked out and wanted to know if I got a message or anything. I said his computer just hung up and wouldn't reconnect. He said he was going to have to hang up because he was expecting a call from the FCC. Told him if he hung up he couldn't hear me laughing. Then he said "Oh man, you (expletives deleted)" and slammed the phone down.

Would LOVE to do some of that kind of stuff to those phone scammers.

At the time we where both Machinists on night shift were I work. Being on-line meant you had a Compuserve account. He went from that Timex Sinclair to a PC, then a Mac and enjoyed helping co-workers set up their home computers. He moved into the IT department and became the company Help Desk. He passed away about a year after i started working from home.