Camophone: Caller ID spoofing 2.0, now for the public
posted October 28th 2004 12:19PM
We're definitely not so sure how we feel about subverting the caller ID system, but whereas before it was a cool
hack for jerks like creditors and PIs, now Camophone (get it?) is readying the service for primetime general use. They
are set to offer their caller ID spoofing service to anyone with a PayPal account, which'll buy you pre-paid blocks of
spoofed-call minutes at a five dollar, 100-minute minimum (that'd be five cents per minute). But this time around the
company's owner is choosing to remain anonymous (remember what happened
last time?), especially what with all the new security
concerns we'll have to deal with. Like, for example, access to T-Mobile voicemail boxes that are set to read caller ID
and grant access without a password. Hooray.
[Via TechDirt]
thats awesome
OMG, if you want to remain anonymous just use a calling card! It will be much cheaper than this service, plus you'll get cheap long distance, lol.
Hooty, with this you can make sure that they will actually pick up the phone, though. See, you just put in the number of someone who you know they will answer for and voila! Payphones or any other number they dont recognize they will probably just ignore.
I just tried this service..and it has let me down both times...
either shows unavailable or some 425 area code number..and its sratchy..tons of interference noise...
blah oh well only $5 to piss around with
I got it. It works and it works well. Call back *69 will give the number that you put as the caller id. It works on cell phones and landlines. Every # I tried worked. Very fun when messing with friends.
I just tried to use the service to access my brothers T-Mobile voicemail (with his permission of course) but it did not work. Instead I ended up leaving a message on my own VM.
His VM is setup to accept calls from his number without a password. I wonder if T-Mobile has implemented something that keeps this from working with a spoofed caller ID.
It was working fine all weekend, but it's down now.
Can someone PLEAE answer this question. I heard that a group of people, MIT grads, came up with a similar technology. However, the way theirs works is that your number will be made private which anyone can do anyhow with *67. However, this system makes it so if the call is traced, then the supposed number is fake as well. I asked a friend in law enforcement about this. He said he heard of a case in Florida where someone was getting harassing calls, the calls were traced, and the system kept showing the number to the police department. So in other words, this system allows you to frame people for calls when they are traced. However, I have asked other law enforcement friends and they say that they have not heard of it. Anyone hear about this????
Freak Phone
Are you saying that if I trace private calls to my home or cell and they give me a number, someone could have made it appear to be that number? Does the supposedly traced nuber hide behind the private number? Is this over VOIP? Do you have any idea how many lines of code would be needed for such a program? I hearrd about this technology bout 18 months ago but could not find anything on it and the whole phone jam/freak/hacking community is not helping me. I think that they think I am the police!!!!! I had also heard that the program comes from Indian students at MIT. American companies sending software and high tech work over there and look what they come up with!!!!!
I just got Camophone last week. This is amazing and fun. I called a credit agency that had been calling me for weeks and said I was the attorney general and that they were breaking the law calling past a certain time! Guess who stopped calling me????
I called my ex and made it seem like his new wife was calling him, called my work and made it seem i was calling from the hospital and called a friend to make him think he was in a big legal mess! Cheap, easy, and lots of laughs.
Yeah I continue to use one of these caller ID spoof cards. This one is great! You can even change your voice! Man becomes the voice of a woman or kid... you get the picture. Here is it: http://www.encrypt-the-planet.com/anonymousphonecalls.htm
FREAK PHONE
Yes there is that underground technology. Trace calls with the phone company, forwarder that reads numbers, or cell company and the number they say has been pranking you, might not be the actual person. The reason why there is not a lot of info on this is because all the major phone carriers would lose big $$$ on call trace and caller ID services because no one would use them anymore. I bet it was the phone companies that threatened the life of the *38 or *37 inventor, not the hacking community. The technology, I have heard, comes from Russia, not India.
WHERE CAN I GET THE PRIVATE NUMBER AND TRACE BACK TO A FAKE NUMBER THING? Willing to pay lot's o' money! Would love to screw my man's ex he is just a little too nice to her and she is a little too Ms. Perfect! Any high-tech suggestions to ruin her life, she needs to be out of the way???
Hooty
calling cards can read your number and sometimes send it to the person you are caling, even if your phone is blocked or you use *69
that is how they caught the guy who was calling fast food restaurants pretending to be the police. search about the wendy's hoax and you might find some info.
jazmine
The technology behind camophone and the "underground" private and fake traced number technology has been around for at least 18 months. Camophone is about 60-80 lines of code, the fake call trace and private tech is about 100-120. Works over VOIP and has something to do with ANI. I personally find these technologies dangerous and cruel, you can really mess with people and play with their heads. Remember KARMA!!!!!
We are victims of this technology. Someone is calling phone numbers all over the US, several times a day using our caller ID. When they answer they get a hang up. For four months we have been getting calls daily from people who are mad as heck and want to know who we are and what we want. The phone company repair department isn't even AWARE that this technology exists and are of no help at all.
Personally, this technology stinks.
CAn i do that for free by myself
when using a spoofing service and going through your computer to spoof calls, if the person your are fooling has "CALL TRACE" what number will show up? my landline # connected to my computer? or the "fake" number?
anyone know? I am reading very different things about this.
when using a spoofing service and going through your computer to spoof calls, if the person your are fooling has "CALL TRACE" what number will show up? my landline # connected to my computer? or the "fake" number?
anyone know? I am reading very different things about this.
I have had a terrible experience with these caller id spoofing programs. Over a year ago, someone found a way to check my voicemail messages, by "spoofing" their caller id, and show they were calling from "my number." At the time, I had my cell phone set up where I didn't have to enter my passcode when calling from my phone. I could just go straight into my voicemail.........and - so could this person who had nothing better to do than invade my privacy. Not only would they listen to all my personal messages, they also obtained all my friends phone numbers who left me messages....... and guess what ? Within hours after my friends called me, they were being harassed from "my number." I've lost several good friends, because they refused to believe Caller ID Spoofing Exists. They just think I've lost my mind. Not only have they accessed my voicemail up to 20 times a day, they have also changed my passcode and changed my outgoing message. And, I can't even access my account.
But, that's not all......... it gets worse. Last week I was served with a Restraining Order, and I have had harassment charges filed against me by SOMEONE I HAVE NEVER EVEN MET. I have had to hire a defense attorney to represent me in court, which is costing me several thousand. (There goes the money I was saving for my kids Christmas Presents!) :-(
Who ever said, "Innocent until Proven Guilty?? " I am being treated like I am "Guilty until Proven Innocent." If I can't prove my innocence during the trial, I am looking at a FELONY HARASSMENT CHARGE in addition to doing time in jail for something I had absolutely nothing to do with.
I am totally freaked out over this. My only "brush with the law" was receiving one speeding ticket about 10 years ago.
In my opinion, I think these Caller ID Spoofing Programs should be ILLEGAL !!!