Most phone phreaks either don’t bother to set up a callback number or don’t know how. They try to get away with some lamebrained excuse like "I’m just going into a meeting." But Bruce was hip to all of that, and he wasn’t going to get conned again. So before my call, I had convinced a Pacific Bell employee that I was a company engineer who’d been sent to LA to tackle a technical problem and needed a temporary local phone number. Once that was set up, I put it on call forwarding to my cloned cell phone number of the day. When Bruce called back to the legitimate internal phone number I had given him, it rang through to my cell phone.