Voicemail message hacked

christo82 · 27-01-2008 1:30pm #1

My sister pointed it out to me when she tried to leave a voice message on my mobile. Some scumbag kids had been able to record their own message as my voicemail message. How can they do this? My phone doesn't be out of my sight, so it would have to be done remotely. Does anyone know how they did it? I should've had a password protecting my voicemail, which I do now.

watna · 27-01-2008 1:32pm

Did you ever change your voicemail password after you got the phone? If not, the password is set on 0000 and anyone can ring your message minder and record a new message. Change your message and then change your password.

martin84 · 27-01-2008 1:40pm

ya all ya have to do is ring the number putting a 5 after the prefix so 08551234567, press # then if they haven't change the pin, its just 0000

Sherifu · 27-01-2008 1:42pm

Yep, if you didn't change the password it's easy to do from a landline with the 5 before the number.

martin84 · 27-01-2008 1:45pm

I did it once to an ex who did the dirt on me

im such a nerd!!

watna · 27-01-2008 1:48pm

I just tried to do it to my bf cos he didn't believe it's true but it seems he changed his password at some stage but doesn't remember when or to what.

Foiled again, damn him!

Doctor DooM · 27-01-2008 1:52pm

christo82 wrote: »

My sister pointed it out to me when she tried to leave a voice message on my mobile. Some scumbag kids had been able to record their own message as my voicemail message. How can they do this? My phone doesn't be out of my sight, so it would have to be done remotely. Does anyone know how they did it? I should've had a password protecting my voicemail, which I do now.

Someone once complained to the network I worked for about a similar situation. She was an uber powerful business woman. A potential client rang her up and her message minder went straight to the sound of two people getting it on. Rather... explosively.

Apparently, among others, her mother and the japanese business man were both rather suprised.

Pythia · 27-01-2008 2:56pm

Yep, very easy to change/listen to people's vms. Most of the time they haven't changed it from the default.

slipss · 27-01-2008 3:00pm

Oldest trick in the book, to be fair. I remember doing this when I was 13.

Collie D · 27-01-2008 3:02pm

Yeah, it's easily done. I remember some psycho was sending my mother nasty texts and ringing giving her grief so I changed her vocemail message saying it was an escort ageny. Possibly childish but all is fair in love and war

Karoma · 27-01-2008 3:24pm

Moved from AH.

Terrontress · 28-01-2008 9:43am

One time I changed a friend's as a practical joke. He had returned from a year in Australia and was looking for a job, going to recruitment agencies etc.

I changed his vm to me introducing myself as him then saying something rather crude.

I then got a girl from the office to phone 0875... and leave a message saying she phoned about the job and he has a peculiar message.

So he gets a text to say he has a vm. He phones up to check his messages, curious he phones to hear his message.

Once he heard it he phoned the recruitment agency right away and repeated to the woman what was on the vm.

I hadn't intended it to go that far!

Voicemail message hacked

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