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WHAT IS TELEMAIL?
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For many years, rich corporate mongers have invested in personal telemail
boxes for their employees. The generic term for this type of messaging system
is a "voice mailbox". It's nothing more than an answering machine with a few
extra frills. The good thing about voice mailbox hacking, is that there are
1-800 access numbers, which makes it easy for anyone who doesn't feel like
phreaking to your number, to leave you a message.
OPERATING GTE TELEMAIL
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To play with any voice mailbox, it is usually necessary to have a touch
tone fone. This incorporates the standard 0-9 digits and the two function keys.
The symbol that looks like a tic-tac-toe sign, "#", is called the pound key.
The other is an asterisk, and is called that, or the "star". You will need to
be farmiliar with those to use this system.
GTE Telemail, as like other voice mailoxes are VOICE. IE: You don't use
your modem for hacking this, it's all manual (pain in the butt, yes, I know).
If you like, you can try all this out while you are reading the file, just so
that you get used to the service.
The phone number for this service is: 1-800-348-6551. When you first dial
the number, and it answers, you'll hear this: "<Beep><Beep><Beep><Booo> Hello.
You've reached the telemessages service. The person you are calling is
presently unavailable. To leave a message, enter the address of the person you
are calling; or to access your regular message box, enter the pound sign".
Most of the hacking that you are going to be doing is on the "regular
message box". This is where the people get the messages that people have sent
to them. You would dial the pound key after that announcement. To make your
life easier, you never have to wait for those recordings to finish. You can
interrupt the lady only after she has begun speaking, but you can dial the
pound key right after the beeps. After pressing the pound key, you will hear
another recording: "Please enter your id number". It is here that you would
enter someone's id number. You will then hear a short "beep". Another recording
will come on if it is a valid number: "You have XX new messages, and XX saved
messages". New messages are ones that you haven't heard yet, saved messages are
the ones that you wanted to keep for later reading, or rereading.
There are different types of boxes on this service. Some have "Greeting
Messages" and "Bulletins", some have a strange method of picking up messages. I
will go over those now:
If you have messages waiting, you can receive them by dialing "2".
Sometimes, it won't give you that option, so you will have to dial "011" for
your new messages, or "012" for your saved messages. When you are listening to
your messages, you may dial a "2" to pause, and another "2" to continue. A "3"
will rewind the messages a couple of seconds back, and a "4" will fast forward
the message. Usually, if you hit the "4" key twice in a row quickly, it will
jump to the end of the message and beep, giving you a second menu.
After you have heard the message, you are given these options:
022: Reply back to the person
021: Redirect the message
7: Save the message
5: Delete the message
Dialing the asterisk at any point is like an abort command. It usually will
stop what you are doing and go to the last menu before what you are currently
doing. If you dial the asterisk at the top menu, "To get your new messages,
dial 011...etc", you will get a recording that says, "GoodBye", and then be
hung up.
HACKING GTE TELEMAIL
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....is a pain, but it works.
The object when hacking these things is find out as many 6 digit personal
id codes as possible. You see, to send someone a message, that involves a 7
digit code. Since the 6 digit code is easier to get, and gives you more
information, you have to scan through an entire prefix of numbers to get as
many id codes as possible.
All you really need is a touch tone fone, and a notebook. It's handy if
your fone has some kind of memory, and you can recall any number at a single
touch. Like my fone here, there are 12 extra buttons that you can program
numbers into.
First, you have find out a prefix for Texas. You know, a prefix, the first
three numbers in a seven digit fone number, not counting the area code. There's
lots of ways to do this. You can either whip out your fone book, or dial
"1-214-555-1212" or "1-817-555-1212". Most of the time, you can phreak to those
two numbers from any service. I know that Sprint lets you.
Tear out a separate piece of paper from the notebook, and draw up a chart
that looks similar to this:
0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
4 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
5 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
8 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
The chart stands for numbers from 00-99. The first row, represents "00-09",
the second row would be "10-19" (understand?). To read it, the number on the
farthest left is the first digit in the number, then you just go from "0-9" on
the rest of the row for the second digit. It's easier than writing out "00-99"
in order.
Now, take the 3 digit prefix in Texas, and add a "0" after it. In other
words, if the prefix you picked was "123" (No, that's not a real working
prefix), then you'd have "1230". If you are using the programmable fone that I
mentioned before, put this four digit number into a key, or somewhere on the
fone that you can retrieve it easily.
Dial up the number (1-800-348-6551), and wait for the
"<beep><beep><beep><boo>", as soon as you hear the last <Boo> sound, hit the
pound key. As soon as the lady begins to speak, hit the key that has those four
numbers programmed into it, or manually dial those four numbers. After that,
dial the two digit number that you get from the chart. This should make 6
digits in all. If it's an invalid code, you will get this recording: "We're
sorry, we are unable to process the id you entered, please try again." As soon
as you hear the lady start to say "We're sorry", hit the asterisk button.
You'll hear two quick beeps. Cross out the number on the chart that didn't
work. For example: You just began the dialing, you picked "123" for a prefix,
and added the "0" on to get "1230". You were starting from the first line of
your chart, which looks like this:
0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
You would dial the number and everything, press the pound sign, and hit the key
that had the "1230" on it, or if you didn't have that kind of fone, you would
dial the "1230" manually. You would then dial a "00". If that was invalid, and
the recording began saying "We're sorry....", you hit the