VMB's: How to Hack and Where to Hack
N.A.R.C. Information File #10
VMB's
How to Hack and Where to Hack
By Alexis Machine
An official NARC Publication
Infofile #10 - Yahoo! Double Digits! hehe
What it is
A VMB stands for a Voice Mail Box, similar to an answering machine, but can only be used remotely. You can call them up, leave a short to long greeting, enter your security code, and read your messages. And for your gain, you can hack these out and use them for your personal use.
What to use it for
You can run a codeline, leave it as you voice number for those who you're not sure you can trust with your home phone #, or leave it on BBS in place of your #, or to fake people into thinking that it your #( credit card co's, stores, etc.) There are many more ways to use them, just be creative
Where to find them
These are either local #'s of business, afterhours # for stores, radio stations. They are also 800's or Local areas. To find them, you can either scan, look in the yellow pages, or ripoff a bunch of business cards from stores or restaurants & hotels that have lottery drawings. There are thousands of systems and you can find them on, you just have to look. By experience, the business card deal works best.
How to hack them
VMB systems have very different setups. They can be a single #, there you enter the vmb #, and seperate dialups for each vmb. Ok to hack these out you can be a loser and randomly try different passcodes all day (hit #, *,or 0 are common ways to get into vmbs). You want your own virgin system s had no past experience with hackers, or you'll never get a vmb. You can also get a semi-automatic vmb hacker, and try that. But some systems have vacant boxes that have a pattern to them. You always want open boxes beacause the operators won't notice anything, and lamers won't leave stupid messages, and there will nobody to steal your box.
Patterns
Easy. They always make simple patterns for vacant vmb's until the real owner receives their new box. These patterns are very simple. Usually, they are just the box #, on none at all. Others have formulas where you can add/subtract #'s to find different passcodes. These will only work on vacant boxes, real ones have the passcodes personalized. You can tell because there will be no greeting, or a mechanized greeting. I have found that systems like to use 5XXX, 3XXXX, 1XXXX,6XXXX,9XXXX. But they can be anything, it's just some people like them organized. If you can't get any boxes, move to another system because they must have had hacker encounters of the 3rd kind (hheh).
Operation
They always havmenu's, so that's self explanatory. just push the letter of the function on the fone (if you don't have #'s on yer fone, get one).
That about sums it up, follow these steps and you'll have a vmb all to yourself. For any questions, call Nuclear Wasteland and most other elite boards and leave me a message.
Also call:
High Intensity BBS
(512) 447-4530
USR Dual Standard
650 megz
9600+ only, free files
or
Perpetual Commotion
(512) 339-1983
2400, 85 megz
I'm co on both, so just say you saw my article..
YO to all NARC members, and Oxidizer..
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