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This is how the News of the World hacked phones

  • 12-07-2011 9:27am
    #1
    EricM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 233 ✭✭


    I have seen much misinformation about using two phones, faking caller id which is all false.

    Here is how they really did it and it really works.

    1. Take a number such as 087-123-4567 and add a 5 after the prefix.
    The number becomes 087-5-123-4567.

    2. Call the number and you will hear the voicemail greeting "leave a message after the beep" or whatever.
    The receivers phone will not ring and will not be aware of this, you will be connected directly to voicemail.

    3. Don't let the greeting play to the beep, just immediately dial #0000# as soon as the call is connected.

    4. That's it your in, Press 1 to listen, 4 to change greeting etc..., same as if you had dialed 171 to access your own voicemail.

    Happy hacking.

    I can't believe this still works and the networks haven't blocked it, I figured this out about 10 years ago.

    To prevent this you need to set a voicemail password.
    Many people don't do this because they think the voicemail can only be listened to from their phone and why bother password it, but this is wrong, voicemail can be accessed from any phone.
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