Hospital calling
Im sure many of you have tried to SE the PBX dialup from a hospital. Its a well known fact that most big hospitals have them. This is not a new idea but an old one that is being revived for what its worth. Instead of calling up your local hospital and trying to get the dialup, why not make a call off the operator's lines... sound hard? no its not really that hard.. All you do is call up a hospital and speak to the switchboard attendant. First you might try posing as a Phone Co. official and SE info about her PBX equipment, extensions, what type of lines/trunks they have coming in and out. Then after that is accomplished, call up the hospital as Joe Blow and ask to be transferred to a valid extension in the hospital like X-Ray. Tell whoever answers the phone that your Joe Blow in another valid department like Maternity and say your having trouble with getting an outside line or ask them to look for a non-existent person. In either case they will not be able to help you. Right before you end the conversation, ask them to transfer you back to the operator. Now when you get the operator again, Tell them your Joe Blow in X-ray (because thats what extension will show up) and that you need an outside line because your 9 key will not work or some other good excuse. 9 times out of 10, the operator will give you an outside line if its within her power to do so. after that you can dial any local number or 800 numbers. You wont be able to dial long distance because hospitals and hotels have a special screen code on most IRC's that will not allow them to bill to a hospital or hotel trunk. But you can get around that by saying you want to make a call and bill it to your AT&T calling card or etc.. you might try other local services like 1411 (information) or 0 for operator to accomplish any other task you might wanna perform. The reason you must first transfer extensions is that when you first call, you show up on the incoming line from outside. The PBX attendant knows this and will not give you an outside line. But once your call is bridged to an extension then back again, it doesn't show you as coming from outside the hospital. Please keep in mind that for this trick to work, it will depend on how Advanced the hospital's PBX equipment is.
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