"Intercepting" phone calls?

[spaz]

How is it possible to intercept a call? Like how they do in the prank section for the Pizza, and Theatre. I love those pranks, and would like to do a few of my own. Do I need some sort of device? Software/hardware? How can this be done? How was it done on the sites prank?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

[onetwofive]

a few different ways... two off the top of my head; police scanner (go to radio shack) and beige box (go to home depot, and the dollar store).

[Zan]

How is it possible to intercept a call? Like how they do in the prank section for the Pizza, and Theatre. I love those pranks, and would like to do a few of my own. Do I need some sort of device? Software/hardware? How can this be done? How was it done on the sites prank?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

You're talking about testing the security of your own home/business phone right? 1st step: Research. 2nd step: Study. 3rd step: Go out into the world. Prerequisite: Not asking someone to take the time out of his/her life to show you how to do something illegal. That's just plain rude.

[frog]

The pizza section wasn't "intercepted." Arbie and "STACY" and Murd0c were in the pizza place, as far as I know, as employees. But I might be wrong.

The other "interception" is called beige-boxing. We've talked about this a lot here, so all I can tell you is to either scan the forums for some information or check out this article in the UPL.

[MattGSX]

How is it possible to intercept a call? Like how they do in the prank section for the Pizza, and Theatre. I love those pranks, and would like to do a few of my own. Do I need some sort of device? Software/hardware? How can this be done? How was it done on the sites prank?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

You're talking about testing the security of your own home/business phone right? 1st step: Research. 2nd step: Study. 3rd step: Go out into the world. Prerequisite: Not asking someone to take the time out of his/her life to show you how to do something illegal. That's just plain rude.

Glad to see the philosophy that the new school is employing when churning out new "free-thinkers".


spaz, those pranks (if I'm not mistaken) were done with beige boxing and/or call forwarding. It's fairly illegal, and can be pretty dangerous (if you're beiging from a public location). It's not that hard to learn to beige, so you need to learn something more important: being inconspicuous and looking like you belong. That's not something someone can teach you. It sounds pretty lame, but the way I learned how to do that was crashing parties and fitting in without people noticing I don't really belong there.

[rbcp]

The Pizza thing was easy.  We ran into the pizza place with machine guns, jumped up on the counter and screamed at everyone to get in the cooler.  As the police negotiated with Eddie, we answered the phones out of boredom.  It's all explained on the pizza page.  With the movie theater one, murd0c and I were in the dumpster behind the theater with an extension phone hooked to their TNI box.  Some guy got shot over that one and I felt kinda bad.

[MattGSX]

Dude, you make it sound so EASY!


I WORSHIP YOU!!!!!!!!!!!

[fullfull]

  it's so easy ??

[hosh_spicer]

The Pizza thing was easy.  We ran into the pizza place with machine guns, jumped up on the counter and screamed at everyone to get in the cooler.  As the police negotiated with Eddie, we answered the phones out of boredom.  It's all explained on the pizza page.  With the movie theater one, murd0c and I were in the dumpster behind the theater with an extension phone hooked to their TNI box.  Some guy got shot over that one and I felt kinda bad.

I agree, you 0wn...cactus?

[MIB]

]Some guy got shot over that one and I felt kinda bad.

Heh? What's the story behind that incident?

MIB

[FireFish]

I'm sorry, this is a noobish question, but I noticed on the PLA given frequencies for cordless phones, it lists channels.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't channel numbers just a place for storage?  I reprogrammed my scanner anyways, to the frequencies and proper channels, but it's been completley dead.  Is there a newer list, I cant imagine phones are all that outdated.

[immabadspellor_]

Channel numbers in your scanner are arbitrary.  They correlate to whatever you program to correlate to.  Other channel numbers do have meaning.  For example, TV channel 6 is the same frequency all over North America, 87.75MHz aural.  FRS channel 1 is always 462.5625MHz.  Channels 1-25 of the old 46/49MHz cordless phones were like this as well.  You could put them in memory 483 if you wanted to.  It doesn't matter.  Not many people have 46/49 MHz phones anymore.  900MHz phones are still common.  It is best to scan to find these.  Use wide FM mode, at 10kHz steps.  They're generally spaced at 30kHz but since it differs on the phone model, it's best to use 10 if you have it.  Scan between 902-928MHz.  You won't be able to pick up digital phones.  2.4GHz analog phones are quite common these days.  You either need a fancy scanner or a downconverter to hear these.  5.8GHz analog phones aren't very common and take very pricey equipment to listen to.  You can't listen to anything digital spread spectrum.

Some older phones use analog voice scrambling.  It sounds like donald duck and a high pitch carrier.  This is voice inversion and can be decoded with a sound card program on the web. 

Only do this to test your own phone with you on it unless you live in an area where it is legal to listen to others phone conversations ;-)

[silentneep]

Only do this to test your own phone with you on it unless you live in an area where it is legal to listen to others phone conversations ;-)

Just for the record... it's not legal anywhere in the U.S.  YMMV in other countries.