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Other Stuff That Has Little To Do With PLA => Techinical Shit => Phreaking, Hacking, Social Engineering, Lock Picking => Topic started by: rbcp on August 15, 2007, 07:58:03 AM
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Skype caller ID has always shown something like "0000123456" to people. For those with ANI, they see some 202 number. Or maybe it's 212. Anyway, Skype is somewhat anonymous, which is nice. But yesterday I was on the phone with some business in South Carolina and the lady chuckles, "Your number shows the weirdest thing on my caller ID. It says phonelosers.org!"
Phonelosers.org is my Skype username. How is Skype passing this along? Is this happening for everyone now? I called my cell phone from Skype and it says Unavailable. The caller ID on my home phone is being screwy so I can't call that to try it out. But WTF. Even if Skype did display my real Skype phone number, it shouldn't display my username too. Should it?
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Maybe that business was using Skype to save money or some other form of digital service (if that makes any sense at all)? If it's possible to send text as a caller ID over a POTS line then I'm a bit pissed off at all the spoofing companies for not allowing it.
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yeah it will show your user name sometimes, ive noticed that too. I remember the first person to notice that on BinRev forums, he got flamed so bad he had to take a picture of it. I hate BinRev. PLA FTW. Ethermine and I broke down and finally split a spoofcard from spoofcard.com, OMG its nice!
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I mentioned this back in November of last year ;)
http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=839
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This is awesome because Skype is now a foolproof caller id spoofer. Something tells me VISA Credential Verification is going to be a sought after username. ;)
naw, i think they cover their asses by saving your IP, and infoz you use to purchase the service.. And i THINK it is a 212 number.. Skype is so nice, but when i make calls across state lines theres a lag sometimes thats annoying when you are trying to act important. :)
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I mentioned this back in November of last year ;)
http://www.phonelosers.org/forums/index.php?topic=839
Hmm, your incident happened with Centurytel. Mine was with Hargray telephone. Both independent telephone companies.
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This is awesome because Skype is now a foolproof caller id spoofer. Something tells me VISA Credential Verification is going to be a sought after username. ;)
naw, i think they cover their asses by saving your IP, and infoz you use to purchase the service.. And i THINK it is a 212 number.. Skype is so nice, but when i make calls across state lines theres a lag sometimes thats annoying when you are trying to act important. :)
Why not just spoof your IP?
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Why not just spoof your IP?
Because spoofing two way communication is a b*tch.
Skype has proxy support anyway.
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This is awesome because Skype is now a foolproof caller id spoofer. Something tells me VISA Credential Verification is going to be a sought after username. ;)
naw, i think they cover their asses by saving your IP, and infoz you use to purchase the service.. And i THINK it is a 212 number.. Skype is so nice, but when i make calls across state lines theres a lag sometimes thats annoying when you are trying to act important. :)
Why not just spoof your IP?
No offense but wouldn't that increase the afforementioned lag? I always get lag whilst spoofing. I see where you're going though. But I would think that they would get your IP every time you connected and not just when you signed up. So wouldn't you have to spoof your IP every time you connected? If I'm wrong please correct me.
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Yeah lag sucks. What would be ideal is if you could just use public wifi or somebody else's.
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Yeah, or get your hands on one of those meat IP's.
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Where is MeatphoneUSA lately anyway? Did Murd0c finally have enough of him?
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dude, he was banned like 3 weeks ago :D
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Damn shame. I was just starting to like him too.
And by like I mean loathe, despise and hate.
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Oh okay so that must have been when I was on vacation then. Is he still harassing the bridge or is it safe to go back there too?
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I don't get much chance to lurk on the bridge anymore but in the few times I've managed it in the past couple weeks I haven't heard him. Shakalakabubu was on the other day though. I thought he was a sixteen year old girl.
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When I first became a Skype subscriber a year ago, I noticed the id always showed unavailable or 0123456. I was curious as to when they were going to correctly show caller id data. They always had the usual "we're working on it" response. I guess they really were working on it! http://share.skype.com/sites/en/2007/05/caller_identification_for_skyp.html
Notice how they don't mention the United States at all in this article. I assume this has something with your incident. And on the ANI, I work in a call center and when I call and harass my co-workers using Skype and a software based voice changer (Screaming Bee) it shows up from a 202 area code.
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On last night's Phone Show, about 15 minutes before the show I called up some number that my friend Jessica gave me to prank and the person answering kept hanging up and threatening to call the police before I could even say anything. The next day, she gets an email from this guy.
"My phone starts blowing up literally 3 days after Stacy spilled this all on me. My home phone is getting blown up from a site called phonelosers.org. When you look up the site it is linked with cactiradio which is also part of that Fucking phone show. It went off 15 times last night during the hours of the phone show. So if Brad is doing this Shit tell him to stop."
We couldn't figure out how he made the link between a call where I barely said a word to his wife and phonelosers.org. We finally figured out that this guy's caller ID was showing him phonelosers.org as the name. Jammie, who uses the same cable company as these people for their phone service, was able to confirm for me that when I call her with Skype, it shows her phonelosers.org.
So that's weird. I don't understand how they're able to see phonelosers.org as the name, when the number still shows up as 0000123456. Isn't the caller ID name always associated with a phone number? I have the option with Skype to display my caller ID and I choose not to, so my 505-796-4020 number never displays for anyone. As I mentioned in the first post in this thread, ANI will show people a completely different phone number. Lately it's always in the 213 area code.
I think I'm going to change my Skype name from phonelosers.org to something else. Something a little more cryptic. Like cactus.cactus.cactus or something. Anyone have any ideas?
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seems very strange to me...
from what i understand about caller ID the person who you are calling telephone company uses the CPN to obtain the name of the caller...
does this only happen when calling lines serviced by cable companies?
wonder if everyone thinking that skype is "untraceable" is the reason for this happening... or perhaps skype calls are now required to do this somehow by CALEA or some other law...
i think something that would make people answer the phone quickly or confused would be a good idea, perhaps something using a law enforcement agency like police.emergency or something... or something stalkerish... or perhaps serial.killer or something... escaped.felon....
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Now this makes me curious, is this the display name showing up or the skype username? If it's the display name, this could be an advantage because that is quickly and easily changed. Experiment. It could be a great way to spoof a number for free or a business name.
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Now this makes me curious, is this the display name showing up or the skype username? If it's the display name, this could be an advantage because that is quickly and easily changed. Experiment. It could be a great way to spoof a number for free or a business name.
It's my Skype username, which is phonelosers.org. I didn't know there was an option to change the display name. I called Jammie at home again today and she said nothing showed up on caller ID this time. So I guess it's not always going to work.
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Very odd. Skype has a node setup, so when you place a call it's actually going through a number of other connections, most of which reside on other people's personal PC's. I'm wondering if this has something to do with whether the connection is relayed through a certain data path in relation to the telco giving the caller id service to the customer or not.
It's against the EULA to mess with this stuff, but that doesn't mean it couldn't be possible. I would think it'd be easy to block a certain range of IP's from accessing skype when calling a certain area. I have no idea, this is just a theory, but I'll try to play with it.
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I think I'm going to change my Skype name from phonelosers.org to something else. Something a little more cryptic. Like cactus.cactus.cactus or something. Anyone have any ideas?
"Unavailable."