The Official Shoplifting Thread

[AgentNixon]

Welcome to the Official Retail Expropriation Thread. Please actually read the thread before you dump a remedial question here
(Moved from Zoklet) I want to get this up before Zoklet shuts down. I will be finishing, updating, editing this forum later when I'm not on my mobile. Can not finish till maximum word limit is removed
How To Make a S3 Key

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You need four of these magnets to make a S3 key.
http://www.kjmagnetics.com/proddetai...84-N52&cat=168

Be careful with the magnets. When magnets crack they can't be reassembled because those that cracked have their own polarity and will be repelled where it originally was. Wrap with a few layers electrical tape so they don't flip or break & to make handling easier. For extra durability you can also add a thin metal bracket onto one side.

Magnet FAQs

Magnet Polarity:
If you align the magnetically up correctly all 4 will go right into place perfectly and hold its shape as is. Just make sure you dont bump it to make the magnets flip on you before you get the electrical tape around it.
There are several simple methods that can be used to identify the (Scientific) North and South poles of neodymium magnets.
1) The easiest way is to use another magnet that is already marked. The North pole of the marked magnet will be attracted to the South pole of the unmarked magnet.
2) If you take an even number of magnets and pinch a string in the middle of the stack and dangle the magnets so they can freely rotate on the string, the North pole of the magnets will eventually settle pointing North. This actually contradicts the "opposites attract" rule of magnetism, but the naming convention of the poles is a carry over from the old days when the poles were called the "North-seeking" and "South-seeking" poles. These were shortened over time to the "North" and "South" poles that we know them as.
3) If you have a compass handy, the end of the needle that normally points North will be attracted to the South pole of the neodymium magnet.

For the homemade S3 key, you want to align the magnets in this configuration:
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Security Devices And How To Remove Them

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Note: Pictures will open in a separate window.

Items you need:

Hook Vinni is a trusted seller Tutorial on using a hook
Superloc detacher Vinni is a trusted seller
Neodymium magnets
Boxcutter or X-acto knife
Pliers (6 in)
Needle
Rubber bands
Clear tape (for sealing up boxes)
S3 key

Websites:
Alpha: http://www.alphaworld.com/index.asp
Sensormatic: http://www.sensormatic.com/
Checkpoint: http://www.checkpointsystems.com/

Alpha Products: Require a S3 key for removal.
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Hard Tag .………...…... Picture
Security Hook …...…… Picture
Alpha S3 Key …....…… Picture
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Hard Tag .………...…... Picture
Security Hook …...…… Picture
Alpha S3 Key …....…… Picture

Soft AM Tag Picture
Sticker tag. Deactivate them by simply bending it or puncturing a small hole through it.

SuperTag 3 Picture
Hard tag. Smaller than supertag 2. Requires a hook for removal.

SuperTag 2 Picture
Hard tag. Requires a hook for removal.

SuperTag 1 Picture
Hard tag. Smaller than other supertags, no hole for a hook. You need neodymium magnets to remove this tag. You can buy them at Ace Hardware: Magnet Link You want the ones that come in a 3 pack. Buy 2 of the 3 packs & stick the 6 magnets together. This tag can also be removed with a superloc detacher.

Alarming SuperTag Picture
Hard tag. Requires a hook for removal. If you pull on this tag too much it'll go off.

SuperTag Ink Picture
Hard tag. Requires a hook for removal.

Ink Tags Picture
Hard tag. Requires a superloc detacher for removal.

Styles / Pencil Tag Picture
Hard tag. Requires a superloc detacher for removal.

Sewn in clothing Soft tags Picture
Tag that is sewn into the garment, look for tags that say remove before wearing. To disable take a needle & poke it through tag but don't poke it through to the other side. You want the needle inside the tag & poke it all around to shred the metal threads. If the tag doesn't need to look untampered with, you can shred the tag with a blade which is much quicker. Another option to disable is cutting the tag with scissors.

Sewn in clothing RF tags Picture
Tag that is sewn into the garment, look for tags that say remove before wearing. To disable slice through the tag with a blade.

RF Embedded Price / Logo Tags Picture Picture Picture Picture
Tags with an embedded security tag. To disable slice through the tag with a blade.

Gator Tag Picture Picture
Hard tag. You can use a rubber band to remove these tags. By twisting the rubber band around the pin until it pops off. You could also use two pair of pliers by holding onto each side of the flaps by the pin and bending. You cannot use a magnet to remove a gator tag. It requires a lot of pulling but you can pull the tag off the pin.

Soft RF Tag Picture
Sticker tag. Deactivate by slicing through the sticker.

Dome Tag Picture
Hard tag. Requires a superloc detacher for removal.

Napoleon Tag Picture
Hard tag. Requires a superloc detacher for removal.

Square Tag Picture
Hard tag. Requires a superloc detacher for removal.

SuperMax security tag Picture Picture
Hard tag. To remove, you need to unscrew the Superloc detacher and touch the flat side to the tag.
http://www.vitag.com.au/products/premier-tags
Post with details about this tag: http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/showpost.p...postcount=2460

Posts about altering the detacher:
http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/showpost.p...postcount=2459

http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/showpost.p...postcount=2466

http://www.zoklet.net/bbs/showpost.p...postcount=2505

Boxguard Spider Wraps Picture
Requires a superloc detacher for removal.

Tutorial on using a hook: http://i43.tinypic.com/qp5k5z.jpg

Video showing how to remove a supertag with a hook:

Sensormatic Hook Detacher - PERFECT for removing security tags - YouTube
Video: click to display

Information on EAS Towers/Door Alarms

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Security experts say the most effective anti-shoplifting tools these days are CCTV and the tag-and-alarm systems, better known as electronic article surveillance (EAS) systems. Separately, these are good options. Used together, experts say, they're almost unbeatable. EAS is a technology used to identify articles as they pass through a gated area in a store. This identification is used to alert someone that unauthorized removal of items is being attempted. According to the Association of Automated Identification Manufacturers, over 800,000 EAS systems have been installed worldwide, primarily in the retail arena. EAS systems are useful anywhere there is an opportunity for theft of items of any size. Using an EAS system enables the retailer to display popular items on the floor, where they can be seen, rather than putting them in locked cases or behind the counter.

Loss prevention expert Robert L. DiLonardo, says new EAS technologies are being produced -- not only to reduce shoplifting -- but also to help increase sales, lower labor costs, speed inventory, improve stockroom logistics and, one day, to replace inventory record-keeping. But for now, we'll stick to the role of EAS in battling shoplifting in your imaginary store!

Three types of EAS systems dominate the retail industry. In each case, an EAS tag or label is attached to an item. The tag is then deactivated, or taken from an active state where it will alarm an EAS system to an inactive state where it will not flag the alarm. If the tag is a hard, reusable tag, a detacher is used to remove it when a customer purchases the item it's attached to. If it's a disposable, paper tag, it can be deactivated by swiping it over a pad or with a handheld scanner that "tells" the tag it's been authorized to leave the store. If the item has not been deactivated or detached by the clerk, when it is carried through the gates, an alarm will sound.

The use of EAS systems does not completely eliminate shoplifting. However, experts say, theft can be reduced by 60 percent or more when a reliable system is used. Even when a shoplifter manages to leave the store with a tagged item, the tag still must be removed -- something that is no longer as easy as it once was. For example, some EAS tags contain special ink capsules, which will damage the stolen item when forcibly, and illegally, removed. (This type of device is known in the industry as benefit denial -- we'll discuss it more later!). Other popular EAS components today include source tagging, whereby an inexpensive label is integrated into the product or its packaging by the manufacturer.

The type of EAS system dictates how wide the exit/entrance aisle may be, and the physics of a particular EAS tag and technology determines which frequency range is used to create a surveillance area. EAS systems range from very low frequencies through the radio frequency range (see How Radio Scanners Work). These EAS systems operate on different principles, are not compatible and have specific benefits and disadvantages. That's why the Consumer Products Manufacturers Association is encouraging a "tower-centric" EAS approach that can "read" multiple tag technologies rather than the "tag-centric" models that exist today.

Radio Frequency Systems

Radio Frequency (RF) Systems are the most widely used systems in the United States today and RF tags and labels are getting smaller all the time. As you can see in the drawing at the right, the RF EAS system works like this: A label -- basically a miniature, disposable electronic circuit and antenna -- attached to a product responds to a specific frequency emitted by a transmitter antenna (usually one pedestal of the entry/exit gate). The response from the label is then picked up by an adjacent receiver antenna (the other pedestal). This processes the label response signal and will trigger an alarm when it matches specific criteria. The distance between the two gates, or pedestals, can be up to 80 inches wide. Operating frequencies for RF systems generally range from 2 to 10 MHz (millions of cycles per second); this has become standard in many countries. Most of the time, RF systems use a frequency sweep technique in order to deal with different label frequencies.

Sometimes both the transmitter and receiver are combined in one antenna frame -- these are called mono systems and they can apply pulse or continuous sweep techniques or a combination of both. According to Tag Point Ltd. experts, mono systems could be effective for you if your store's entry is small. The mono system is used with hard labels, which are slightly more expensive than paper labels used with RF sweep techniques.

Sensors (gates/pedestals) made by Checkpoint Systems, one of the largest manufacturers of EAS products, emit a low-energy RF pulse, which "listens" for the tag. This technology, known as digital signal processing, actually "learns" about its surroundings so that it can accurately distinguish between the tag signal and extraneous noise. Store employees love this because it virtually eliminates false alarms! (Store owners often ask why there are no invisible sensors. Cross Point experts say it is technically possible to create an invisible system by, for example, installing an antenna loop around a store's door. However, tests have shown that the preventive value of a visible system is greater and results in decreased theft.)

There are many different ways to implement an RF system. The basic idea is that the tag has a helical antenna etched from thin aluminum bonded to a piece of paper. At the end of the antenna is a small diode or RC network that causes the tag to emit a radio signal in response to the radio signal it receives. To disarm the tag, a strong RF pulse (much stronger than the gates emit) blasts the tag and burns out the diode or RC components. Between the gates a burned out tag does not emit a signal, so the gates let it pass without an alarm.

Electromagnetic System

The Electromagnetic (EM) system, which is dominant in Europe, is used by many retail chain stores, supermarkets and libraries around the world. In this technology, a magnetic, iron-containing strip with an adhesive layer is attached to the merchandise. This strip is not removed at checkout -- it's simply deactivated by a scanner that uses a specific highly intense magnetic field. (One of the advantages of the EM strip is that it can be re-activated and used at a low cost.)

What most people refer to as an electromagnetic tag is actually a metal wire or ribbon that has high permeability, making it easy for magnetic signals to flow through it, according to Sensormatic's EAS Product Co. CTO Hap Patterson. "When we drive the tag, flux is being allowed to flow through the tag until it's saturated," he says. "When it's saturated, from a magnetic perspective, it begins to look like air. Saturation occurs abruptly and is an important part of the design of the tag."

Look at the figure showing the EM system with its receive coil and transmitter on either side and tag in the middle. When the tag goes from active to saturated, the receiver detects the change in the amount of the signal picked up from the transmitter. "If you look at the receiver signal, you'll see a bump when saturation occurs," Patterson says. Saturation occurs twice each cycle-once on the transmitter's positive cycle and once on its negative cycle. What is happening is the system is checking for the special material used to make the tag. (In scientific terms, the permeability of steel is much lower than the metal used to make the tag. In addition, when steel goes to saturation, it tends to do so slowly, not abruptly. So the EM system uses these differences to differentiate between a still-active tagged item leaving the store and a wrench in someone's pocket.)

A magnetized piece of semi-hard magnetic material (basically, a weak magnet) is put up next to the active material to deactivate it. When you magnetize the semi-hard material, it saturates the tag and puts it in its inactive saturated state.

That same kind of tag is often used in the library, where it can be reactivated by demagnetizing the semi-hard magnetic material.

The EM system works by applying intensive low frequency magnetic fields generated by the transmitter antenna. When the strip passes through the gate, it will transmit a unique frequency pattern. This pattern is, in turn, being picked up by an adjacent receiver antenna. The small signal is processed and will trigger the alarm when the specific pattern is recognized. Because of the weak response of the strip and the low frequency (typically between 70 Hz and 1 kHz) and intensive field required by the EM system, EM antennas are larger than those used by most other EAS systems, and the maximum distance between entry pedestals is 40 inches. Also, because of the low frequency here, the strips can be directly attached to metal surfaces. That's why EM systems are popular with hardware, book and record stores.

Acousto-magnetic System

The newer acousto-magnetic system, which has the ability to protect wide exits and allows for high-speed label application, uses a transmitter to create a surveillance area where tags and labels are detected. The transmitter sends a radio frequency signal (of about 58 kHz) in pulses, which energize a tag in the surveillance zone. When the pulse ends, the tag responds, emitting a single frequency signal like a tuning fork. While the transmitter is off between pulses, the tag signal is detected by a receiver. A microcomputer checks the tag signal detected by the receiver to ensure it is at the right frequency, is time-synchronized to the transmitter, at the proper level and at the correct repetition rate. If all these criteria are met, the alarm occurs.

AM material is highly magnetostrictive, which means that when you put the tag material in a magnetic field, it physically shrinks. The higher the magnetic field strength the smaller the metal becomes. The metal actually shrinks about one-thousandth of an inch over its full 1.50 inch length.

As a result of driving the tag with a magnetic field, the tag is physically getting smaller and larger. So if it is driven at a mechanically resonant frequency, it works like a tuning fork, absorbing energy and beginning to ring.

This tag also requires bias magnet material in addition to active element material. The active material will shrink no matter which direction the magnetic field is placed upon it. If the tag is driven with Frequency, F, it gets smaller as the magnetic field increases and larger as it's driven towards zero. This means that while it is being driven at F, the tag is trying to work at 2F, because at both positive and negative halves of the drive signal, the tag is getting smaller. To get the tag to work at F, a bias field is required. The bias is provided by a semi-hard magnetic element in the label. When magnetized, the bias prevents the active element from ever being in a zero field condition. So for an entire half of the drive signal, the tag shrinks. Then it expands for the other half. This results in an F response.

When you walk through the gate with a tag, the transmitter in the gate energizes the material and causes it to resonate at F. The transmitter then stops. The tag will continue to "ring" at F for a short period of time, and the receiver listens for that frequency. If it hears it, it knows there is a tag and sounds the alarm.

When the AM tag is demagnetized, it is deactivated. When it's magnetized, it is activated. (This is the opposite of how the deactivation of EM tags works.)

(Home Depot began using acousto-magnetic tags from Sensormatic Electronics Corp. because the tags work well when they're close to metal and the stores use metal shopping carts -- not all systems work well with metal objects.)

Other EAS technologies include the microwave system, one of the oldest anti-shoplifting systems and judged by experts to be only about 80 percent accurate, is still around in some stores. Security experts also caution retailers that this system is not compatible with increasingly popular source tagging options.

[shadylady]

If I can help in anyway just pm me

Shady x

[bling bling]

hi how can i shoplift paint cans without cops towing me??

[shadylady]

hi how can i shoplift paint cans without cops towing me??

Deep Baggie pants like niggas wear

[millionsofdeadcats]

I'll probably be posting in here as well, I did in zoklet BI from time to time.  I haven't done this stuff since the 20th century but I do know a little.

[bling bling]

hi how can i shoplift paint cans without cops towing me??

Deep Baggie pants like niggas wear

not enough room nub

do you think walking in with a holdall is suscpicious

i can just slide cans in???

[shadylady]

hi how can i shoplift paint cans without cops towing me??

Deep Baggie pants like niggas wear

not enough room nub

do you think walking in with a holdall is suscpicious

i can just slide cans in???

Box stuffing is your friend

[bling bling]

hi how can i shoplift paint cans without cops towing me??

Deep Baggie pants like niggas wear

not enough room nub

do you think walking in with a holdall is suscpicious

i can just slide cans in???

Box stuffing is your friend

nah u cant do that man

[shadylady]

hi how can i shoplift paint cans without cops towing me??

Deep Baggie pants like niggas wear

not enough room nub

do you think walking in with a holdall is suscpicious

i can just slide cans in???

Box stuffing is your friend

nah u cant do that man

Magic bag if all else fails magic mushrooms

[bling bling]

hi how can i shoplift paint cans without cops towing me??

Deep Baggie pants like niggas wear

not enough room nub

do you think walking in with a holdall is suscpicious

i can just slide cans in???

Box stuffing is your friend

nah u cant do that man

Magic bag if all else fails magic mushrooms

last time i tried shrooms i ordered like 7g but the thing what came was this big syringe thingy??

i thought he was hooking me up with pure psyclobin (you cuold even see the pure psclybon microdots suspended in teh liquid) so i tried mainlining it but nothing happened??


but anway i check out this store and they have the bomb ass UNI-PAINT px20/px30 (maybe even th one with the chisel tip omg)

but dam thy dont put alot out bcause of ppl like me coppin too many every day and just stomping them outside the door of the store so there was all this epic oil based silver and gold and white paint all over the door front and the people were treading it in and the ppl came so i had to bounce

[AgentNixon]

Lol Shady Lady! You wrote 90% of that thread. Unfortunately there is a 2000 word limit. I pm'd Arnox and he sounds like he might change that. If he does then I delete this one and post the full one. Until then we might have to break it into parts.

[millionsofdeadcats]

I was going to look for some of my shoplifting posts at zoklet, but they are scattered among so many threads that I cannot even find one.  Here is a quick one I wrote half jokingly to Soso0 here in the 'can of corn' thread, but it does work for some gas money if you run short during the week.

go to a food bank or a fucking soup kitchen.  dress shitty. they will give you pasta and meat and shit so your not eating corn and tobasco out of the fucking can.

Or, get your ass up, get dressed in some work clothes, get a 44. oz cup with a lid and straw, and head to the nearest hardware store.  When you go in there, bring the cup, empty, but with the lid on like you have pop in it.  Get a cart.

Go to the section that has copper/brass fittings, and there should be some thick copper fittings about an inch long, the thickest they have.  Sometimes they are in plastic bags, 10 count.  Put a bunch of fittings in the cart.  Go to a section of the store where there is less traffic and not many expensive items, like the gardening chemicals section or some shit.  Fill your pockets and the cup with as many fittings as you can without looking like your pockets are full of shit. Abandon the cart and leave, sipping from your 'drink' as you stroll through the door.  Repeat at as many hardware stores as you can. 

Go to a metal recycler and sell the fittings.  If you are paranoid about bringing in pounds of gleaming, brand new copper fittings, throw them in a fire for a bit and let them get all dirty and burned-looking, then you can say you found them in a burnpile or something like that. 

Now you have grocery money for the week.

[AgentNixon]

How much do you usually get from this. What is usually the price per pound for that kind of metal?

[millionsofdeadcats]

How much do you usually get from this. What is usually the price per pound for that kind of metal?

Nothing, because I quit doing this sort of thing.  I make more money with less effort with other bad ideas.  But when I was active, I wouldn't even bother if it was less than 3$ a lb.  Just not worth the time.  If I couldn't make at least 100$ in an hour I didn't fuck with it.

[millionsofdeadcats]

Magic bag if all else fails magic mushrooms

I used to get a trash can off the shelf and then go get a big plant in a pot, go to an empty aisle like the chip aisle or like paper towels and shit, and quickly and smoothly empty most of the soil into the trash can.  Then I would put items underneath the plant rootball, replace the plant, and on my way to the registers, I would put the trash can on a shelf somewhere out of the way.  I would go up to the registers, buy the plant, and leave.  The plants are sort of expensive though, so make whatever you put in there count. 

5 minutes in and out, if you do it right fuck the cameras.  Until facial recognition is commonplace, the camera footage is mostly just used as 'evidence' if you get caught, i.e. leverage to get you to plead.  You won't get caught if you are half decent, as long as you don't become a familiar face at a particular store.  Don't get casual about it, or one day you will walk into a store thinking stealing is a breeze, and end up having your day ruined.