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. //_// // //merica .
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. /___/nderground .
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. proudly presents .
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. HACKING GTE TELEMAIL .
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. written by .
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.. MASTER MICRO ..
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WHAT IS TELEMAIL?
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For many years, rich corporate mongers have invested in personal telemail
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boxes for their employees. The generic term for this type of messaging system
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is a "voice mailbox". It's nothing more than an answering machine with a few
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extra frills. The good thing about voice mailbox hacking, is that there are
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1-800 access numbers, which makes it easy for anyone who doesn't feel like
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phreaking to your number, to leave you a message.
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OPERATING GTE TELEMAIL
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To play with any voice mailbox, it is usually necessary to have a touch
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tone fone. This incorporates the standard 0-9 digits and the two function keys.
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The symbol that looks like a tic-tac-toe sign, "#", is called the pound key.
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The other is an asterisk, and is called that, or the "star". You will need to
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be farmiliar with those to use this system.
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GTE Telemail, as like other voice mailoxes are VOICE. IE: You don't use
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your modem for hacking this, it's all manual (pain in the butt, yes, I know).
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If you like, you can try all this out while you are reading the file, just so
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that you get used to the service.
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The phone number for this service is: 1-800-348-6551. When you first dial
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the number, and it answers, you'll hear this: "<Beep><Beep><Beep><Booo> Hello.
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You've reached the telemessages service. The person you are calling is
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presently unavailable. To leave a message, enter the address of the person you
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are calling; or to access your regular message box, enter the pound sign".
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Most of the hacking that you are going to be doing is on the "regular
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message box". This is where the people get the messages that people have sent
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to them. You would dial the pound key after that announcement. To make your
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life easier, you never have to wait for those recordings to finish. You can
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interrupt the lady only after she has begun speaking, but you can dial the
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pound key right after the beeps. After pressing the pound key, you will hear
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another recording: "Please enter your id number". It is here that you would
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enter someone's id number. You will then hear a short "beep". Another recording
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will come on if it is a valid number: "You have XX new messages, and XX saved
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messages". New messages are ones that you haven't heard yet, saved messages are
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the ones that you wanted to keep for later reading, or rereading.
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There are different types of boxes on this service. Some have "Greeting
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Messages" and "Bulletins", some have a strange method of picking up messages. I
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will go over those now:
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If you have messages waiting, you can receive them by dialing "2".
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Sometimes, it won't give you that option, so you will have to dial "011" for
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your new messages, or "012" for your saved messages. When you are listening to
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your messages, you may dial a "2" to pause, and another "2" to continue. A "3"
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will rewind the messages a couple of seconds back, and a "4" will fast forward
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the message. Usually, if you hit the "4" key twice in a row quickly, it will
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jump to the end of the message and beep, giving you a second menu.
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After you have heard the message, you are given these options:
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022: Reply back to the person
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021: Redirect the message
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7: Save the message
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5: Delete the message
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Dialing the asterisk at any point is like an abort command. It usually will
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stop what you are doing and go to the last menu before what you are currently
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doing. If you dial the asterisk at the top menu, "To get your new messages,
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dial 011...etc", you will get a recording that says, "GoodBye", and then be
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hung up.
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HACKING GTE TELEMAIL
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....is a pain, but it works.
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The object when hacking these things is find out as many 6 digit personal
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id codes as possible. You see, to send someone a message, that involves a 7
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digit code. Since the 6 digit code is easier to get, and gives you more
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information, you have to scan through an entire prefix of numbers to get as
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many id codes as possible.
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All you really need is a touch tone fone, and a notebook. It's handy if
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your fone has some kind of memory, and you can recall any number at a single
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touch. Like my fone here, there are 12 extra buttons that you can program
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numbers into.
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First, you have find out a prefix for Texas. You know, a prefix, the first
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three numbers in a seven digit fone number, not counting the area code. There's
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lots of ways to do this. You can either whip out your fone book, or dial
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"1-214-555-1212" or "1-817-555-1212". Most of the time, you can phreak to those
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two numbers from any service. I know that Sprint lets you.
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Tear out a separate piece of paper from the notebook, and draw up a chart
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that looks similar to this:
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0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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4 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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5 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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6 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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7 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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8 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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The chart stands for numbers from 00-99. The first row, represents "00-09",
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the second row would be "10-19" (understand?). To read it, the number on the
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farthest left is the first digit in the number, then you just go from "0-9" on
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the rest of the row for the second digit. It's easier than writing out "00-99"
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in order.
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Now, take the 3 digit prefix in Texas, and add a "0" after it. In other
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words, if the prefix you picked was "123" (No, that's not a real working
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prefix), then you'd have "1230". If you are using the programmable fone that I
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mentioned before, put this four digit number into a key, or somewhere on the
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fone that you can retrieve it easily.
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Dial up the number (1-800-348-6551), and wait for the
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"<beep><beep><beep><boo>", as soon as you hear the last <Boo> sound, hit the
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pound key. As soon as the lady begins to speak, hit the key that has those four
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numbers programmed into it, or manually dial those four numbers. After that,
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dial the two digit number that you get from the chart. This should make 6
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digits in all. If it's an invalid code, you will get this recording: "We're
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sorry, we are unable to process the id you entered, please try again." As soon
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as you hear the lady start to say "We're sorry", hit the asterisk button.
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You'll hear two quick beeps. Cross out the number on the chart that didn't
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work. For example: You just began the dialing, you picked "123" for a prefix,
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and added the "0" on to get "1230". You were starting from the first line of
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your chart, which looks like this:
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0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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You would dial the number and everything, press the pound sign, and hit the key
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that had the "1230" on it, or if you didn't have that kind of fone, you would
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dial the "1230" manually. You would then dial a "00". If that was invalid, and
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the recording began saying "We're sorry....", you hit the asterisk, and then
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cross out the zero (not the farthest one on the left).
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If the code didn't work, you would go on to the next number. In the
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example, you would be dialing "01". If the "123001" didn't work, you'd cross
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out the "1" and go onto "02".
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GTE Telemail only gives you three tries at getting an id code. On the third
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try, you will get this kind of recording (which, by the way, you can abort, and
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hit "*" where it will just hang up on you): "We are still unable to process
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your id. For assistance, please call 800-527-1149. Thank You" <click>.
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Now, let's say that you didn't get one of these recordings, but you heard a
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short beep after you entered in the whole id. That means you got a working id
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code! On your chart, don't cross out the number, but circle it. In the
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notebook, write out the entire 6 digit id code.
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If there are no messages on the box, just hit the asterisk until you hear
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"good-bye", and go onto the next number on your chart. If there ARE messages,
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you want to read them without the owner knowing. In some situations, that's
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impossible, but just don't kill anybody's messages.
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You want to try to keep all NEW messages NEW, so that if the original owner
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of the box calls up, he will still have the same messeage. GTE operators throw
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a pissy fit if the messages aren't going through, and they order all of these
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conferences with their customers. Anyhow, if there is only 1 new message, after
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you've listened to it, press the "*" button, and that will keep the message
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new. If there are more than one, press "7" to put the message into the "saved
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messages bank" after you have listened to them, except for the last message,
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which you can still keep as new by hitting the asterisk.
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Reading saved messages is easier because nobody has to know that you did
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it. Usually after reading your new messages, the system will say, "beginning
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saved messages" if there are any. Otherwise, just dial "012" from the main menu
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for the saved messages. Remember to save all of these messages with the "7"
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button.
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Now, the object here, when listening to all of these messages is to find
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out as much information as possible about the owner of that id code, and the
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people that are sending the message to that box. Let's say you are listening to
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a message, and you hear this: "John, this is Michael". That's great, you would
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scratch down "John - Michael" in your notebook right after where you wrote down
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that box's id number. This will remind you that John owns that box, and Michael
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sent the message to him.
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If you EVER hear them giving out the 7 digit address codes over a
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telemessagenger, be sure to write that down too. Any other information is
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handy, too.
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Now, what on earth are you going to do with all of this information? You're
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going to set up your own boxes! Or at least take over other people's boxes. The
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first method is called "Read and Reply". Let's say, for example, you had one
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box, and a message was sent that said, "Hello John, this is Michael.", and on
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another box, you heard a message that said, "Hello Michael, this is Judy", you
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might have a match. You see, since you now know Michael's box number, and
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Michael sent a message to this John dude, all you have to do is go to the first
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box and reply to the message that Michael sent, and it will be sent back to
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Michael's box.
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So, this is exactly what you must do if you think you have a match (I will
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use the example above for references to make this easier):
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Ex.:
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Id Code: 123000 had a message to John, from Michael
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Id Code: 123050 had a message to Micahael, from Bubba.
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Ok, so you think that you have a match. You would go to the box that had the
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message >FROM< the guy who's box you know. In other words, you would dial
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"12300", and listen to the John/Michael message again. Press the "4" button to
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fast forward through the message, until you hear the beep. Dial a "022" to
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reply to the message. You would then dial a "1" to begin your message
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recording, where you would say the last 3 digits into the phone (in this case,
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you would say "000"), and press "5" to end the recording. It will then say "You
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reply has been sent. You may now dial 022 to reply...etc". Just press the
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asterisk until it says "good-bye", and call back. When you get on, get onto
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the id number 123050, because that's the id that you think is the same that
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sent that John dude a message. If there is a new message, with your voice
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saying "000" into it, you got it! More on this in a second.
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Don't cry if the boxes don't match up and the message doesn't go through.
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There is still a chance that there are other people with the same name. Just
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set them up the same way. Now, if, when you first listened to the messages on a
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box, heard your voice saying three digits, but you never tried matching them up, then you just got a box! Write down the two numbers together somewhere.
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If you have two matches, this is what you do... I am going to use the
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examples above with the 123000 and 123050 boxes. Ok, now you have two boxes
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that are "linked" through messages. Your next mission is to get both boxes to
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have messages from one another that have YOUR voice on it, and to kill all
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other messages. In this example, this is what you would do: Get onto the 123000
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box and reply to the "from michael" message. For your message, don't say
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anything, just have about 7 seconds of silence, and then finally hit "5" to
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finish the message. Next, you would go to the 123050 box, and would listen to
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the 7 seconds of silence message that you just sent. Reply back to this, and do
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the same thing. So now, both boxes have these "7 seconds of silence" or "blank"
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messages in their boxes. Next, you would go to both boxes and kill all of the
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other messages in the box. Everything, even the "michael" message goes.
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You have now siezed the box, and it is at your will. You must pick one box
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to be your "update" box, and the other to be your "pickup" box. The "Update"
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box is the one that will have your greeting message on it, like "You've dialed
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Master Micro's box, to send him a message, dial 022 after the tone." The
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"Pickup" line is the box that will be used for only YOU, where you read
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messages that other phreaks have left you. To set these up, do the following:
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Go to the box you picked as your "pickup" line. Read the blank message and reply to it. For the message, say whatever, like "This is so-and-so's box, dial
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022 after the beep to reply". You then dial up the update line, read the
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welcome message that you just sent, and hit "7" after listening to it to save
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it. You'll hear the blank message somewhere, either as your new or your saved
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message. Kill the blank message on the update line. Now, if you ever wanted to
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change your greeting message, go to the pickup line, record a new message by
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replying to the blank one; go to the update line, and kill the old greeting
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that you don't want, and save the new one.
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Once you have your box set up, all you have to do is give all your phreak
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phriends the address and instructions to the update line. Tell them to save the
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messages when they read it, and to reply to it using 022 if they want to send
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you a message. Occassionally, check your pickup line for new messages, and kill
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them after you have read them just in case the owner of the box catches on and
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changes his id code.
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The other method to set up boxes is used mainly for setting up codelines, or
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other kinds of boxes where you don't want replies, or it is not totally
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necessary to have replies. A codeline is a voice box that you have devoted to
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telling your phriends new codes, and any other new info. Setting these up are
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easy as hell, and you can make as many as you want, but there is a catch. You
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must have figured out both the 7 digit address code, and the 6 digit id code
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for the same box. Let's say there was a dude named Frank, and his address code
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(the number you dial as soon as you get on, instead of dialing the pound key
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and id number, to send the guy a message) was "1234567", and his id code was
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"098765". First, to find out if the address and the id code are the same, you
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do the same method of matching up first names. Call up the telemail service,
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and instead of dialing the pound key and everything, dial the 7 digit address
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code, and send a message saying something like, "yess umm.. <click>" and hit 5.
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They'll think it's a screwed up message that didn't go through if the address
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and the id code aren't for the same box. Anyways, after you send the message,
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you'll be hung up on by GTE. Just call back, and this time enter the pound and
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the 6 digit id code (in this case, 098765). If there is a message that says,
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"yess umm.. ", then you go it! Then next thing you do is jump up and down and
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pop yourself open a brewski.
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After you've popped open your brewski, make sure you are still coherent
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enough to set up a codeline, or whatever else you want to set up. I was gonna
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set up those 1-212-970-XXXX phone sex recordings on a few, because you can set
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up as many as you want; just to amuse the kiddies, and show them your power.
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Anyhow, whip out your notebook, and pick a box that has no messages in it. If
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you don't have any, then pick a box, and go to it, and kill off all of the
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messages. Go to that box, and after the recording tells you that you have no
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new and no saved messages, you will be given a menu. Dial the address code of
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the box that you have the id and address to (in this case, 1234567). Enter a
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message, that says anything you want -- if you can't think of anything, just do
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the 'ole blank message. Save it and everything. You then dial the asterisk
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until you get hung up, and then call back again. This time, enter the id code
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of the box that you have both the addr and id to. When you hear the message
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that you just sent from the other box, reply to it, and in that message, put
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whatever you want into it. After you are done, just kill the message you just
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heard, so there is nothing on the box that you have both info for. Now, you can
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screw around with the other box that you set up, but try not to have any
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messages, or anything screwy on the both you have both things for. If you do,
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you're just going to wind up having it dead, so that's my warning. Tell people,
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when you give out the other box number, the one you just set up, not to reply
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to send you messages.
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Ok, now, going back to near the beginning of the file, about talk of the
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chart, let's say you went from 00 to 99, and you've filled out your chart. The
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prefix you were using was: 1230. You would then change that "0" to a "1". So
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your new four number prefix would be 1231. Keep doing this until you are bored,
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or you have gone up to 1239. Then, you have to pick a new Texan prefix, and
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start with 0 again. Now, that's a lot of numbers...
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Also, that 1-800 number is not the only one in the country. There are
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several others. There is probably a GTE in lots of the major states. If you
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find any new numbers, look for prefixes for THAT state and not Texas. Shit, I
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don't even live in Texas. I live in Russia.
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"This is Master Micro for the Underground America Codeline............."
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Thank You for your support.
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Special Thanks to Mr. Xerox - who if I didn't blow school for that day, and he
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didn't blow work, would have never found out the formats for GTE Telemail.
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Also, because of his board, him and I started hacking and phreaking again, and
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without Underground America, I wouldn't be typing this file right now.
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