The MBTA has officially started slinging out higher-priced fines to anyone who skips paying the fare, but it isn’t stopping one group of protesters from trying to teach riders how to avoid putting cash towards a trip on the transit agency’s buses and trains.

This Friday, Boston Fare Strike, a coalition of activists that describe themselves as “individuals that came together this Spring to meet the July 1 fare hikes with a fare strike,” has plans to let a plentiful amount of passengers pass through various T gates without purchasing a ticket.

“We are going to go to multiple stations and potentially also try and leave them open in some way,” said one of the group’s members, who goes by the name of Julie Almond.

Almond has invited the general public to participate in the “direct action,” and said the group will teach T users how to hitch a free ride, following a march on the city's streets.

But those who join in risk some hefty backlash.

According to T officials, on July 2, Transit Police officers started writing citations with new increased fines attached.

Four days after they began giving out the citations with stricter penalties, a 53-year-old Dorchester man that was issued a ticket by transit officials mailed the very first $50 fine back to the agency.

Fare evasion fines increased to $50 for a first offense, $100 for a second offense and $300 for a third offense.

In addition, the new law requires that the violator pay the fine or request a hearing to fight the fee with-in 30 days of issuance.

The increases in fines came at a time when the T's fare prices went up, on average, by 23 percent.

However, Almond said already, the group of activists has helped more than 150 people find a way to avoid digging in their pockets to pay the fares.

On June 17, following an “Anti-Austerity” march against the impending increases, a group of 50 rallied at Park Street, where they plan on meeting this Friday, and held the doors open so people could shuffle through for free.

Then, on July 1, members of Boston Fare Strike met in Copley Square to teach riders various fare-evading tactics, before letting roughly 100 people through the gates at no cost.

In both instances, members of the group said no one was ticketed or arrested.

When asked if the T police would increase security in anticipation of the fare evasion tactics expected to happen this week, MBTA Spokesman Joe Pesaturo said “as a general rule, the MBTA does not publicly discuss specific police patrol strategies.”

While members of Boston Fare Strike may get away with not paying,  Pesaturo said “their foolish tactics are misguided.”

“[They] serve to do nothing more than worsen the T’s already fragile financial condition,” he said.

Almond said she expected such a response from the T.

“They have to try and belittle [the action]. But from what we have seen, their system doesn’t fix the issues,” she said.

According to Almond, asking the legislature to do something to stop fare increases through the democratic process didn’t work, “so to gain results” they have turned to “collective direct action.”

“We will keep asserting our right to use the T together,” she said.

The group outlined five ways a rider can skip paying the fare to prepare for Friday’s event:

1. Join other fare strikers this Friday: The best way to learn all the tactics is to join with other folks who are also evading fares. Also, this is the lowest risk because together, with a crowd of people, you are much safer from the police.

2. Piggy-backing: Have one person pay, and then get close together and walk through.

3. Use an article of clothing or newspaper: Trigger the sensors on the other side of the gate so that they think someone is coming out of the doors, and then they will open.

4. Jump: If you want to get really acrobatic about it and are agile enough, you can jump on to the turnstyle and land on the other side.

5. Talk to the workers:  See if they sympathize with you. Tell them how you feel it’s outrageous that they are raising the fares in the middle of the recession. The MBTA has been mismanaged for years and is attempting to balance its books on the most vulnerable.