How does spydialer.com listen to my voice mail?

[NadCixelsyd]

Go to spydialer.com and enter a cell phone number. In less than a
minute, you can listen to the outgoing voice mail message associated
with that phone. So I put in my cell phone number and listened to my
own message.

BUT ... My cell phone (which was being held in my hand) never rang.
How is it possible to get to my voice mail without actually dialing my
phone>

[Les Albert]

See www.ehow.com/how_7177004_call-directly-someone_s-voicemail.html

Les

[danny burstein]

You didn't quite give enough info in your question for me
to give a definitive answer, but ... in most cellco and many
landline v-mail systems, there's a quasi "backdoor" method
to get to your msgs.

This is so that you can gain access if you're away from your
phone.

In Omnipoint's system, for example, you call the
v-mail entry point at 305-MESSAGE. You then enter
in the phone number whose messages you're checking,
and... and then you have to enter in a password (numeric)
that you've pre-chosen.

your physical phone never rings.

You can check your msgs and also listen to/change
your outgoing msg.

Now.. there is a very, very, annoying and disturbing
security breach on most of these systems.

If you're calling from your own phone to check v-mail,
typically there's a shortcut number _and_ you do NOT
have to enter in a password. The system "recognizes"
(kind of - see below) that you're reaching it from
the owner's phone and thus figures you're entitled
to hear them.

THe problem: Far too many of these systems use "caller id"
to verify who you are. And (not to get too techy about it),
it's pretty trivial for "bad guys" to spoof caller id.

In other words, that number you see "calling you" on your
little screen may, or may not... be the real number
trying to get you. Same for the v-mail system... a Bad Guy
can fake your number.. and that will give him direct access
to your v-mail w/o a password of other real check.


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[Stanley Daniel de Liver]

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:26:47 -0000, NadCixelsyd <nadci...@aol.com>
wrote:

You could ask Rebecca Brooks & colleagues.

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[danny burstein]

In <op.wrnyzdrf5cosae@dell3100> "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <notag...@invalid.org.invalid> writes:

>On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:26:47 -0000, NadCixelsyd <nadci...@aol.com>
>wrote:

>> BUT ... My cell phone (which was being held in my hand) never rang.
>> How is it possible to get to my voice mail without actually dialing my
>> phone>

>You could ask Rebecca Brooks & colleagues.

I wish I could claim credit for this comment:

Doesn't Rebekah (note the spelling) Brooks
look like Medusa?

[Peter Ward]

danny burstein says...

>
> In <op.wrnyzdrf5cosae@dell3100> "Stanley Daniel de Liver" <notag...@invalid.org.invalid> writes:
>
> >On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:26:47 -0000, NadCixelsyd <nadci...@aol.com>
> >wrote:
> >> BUT ... My cell phone (which was being held in my hand) never rang.
> >> How is it possible to get to my voice mail without actually dialing my
> >> phone>
>
> >You could ask Rebecca Brooks & colleagues.
>
> I wish I could claim credit for this comment:
>
> Doesn't Rebekah (note the spelling) Brooks
> look like Medusa?

Your post is offensive to Medusa.

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