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MASTER MICRO              ..             ...      ========================       ...             .....                                 .....             ...........................................WHAT IS TELEMAIL?=================    For many years, rich corporate mongers have invested in personal telemailboxes for their employees. The generic term for this type of messaging systemis a "voice mailbox". It's nothing more than an answering machine with a fewextra frills. The good thing about voice mailbox hacking, is that there are1-800 access numbers, which makes it easy for anyone who doesn't feel likephreaking to your number, to leave you a message.OPERATING GTE TELEMAIL======================    To play with any voice mailbox, it is usually necessary to have a touchtone fone. This incorporates the standard 0-9 digits and the two function keys.The symbol that looks like a tic-tac-toe sign, "#", is called the pound key.The other is an asterisk, and is called that, or the "star". You will need tobe farmiliar with those to use this system.    GTE Telemail, as like other voice mailoxes are VOICE. IE: You don't useyour modem for hacking this, it's all manual (pain in the butt, yes, I know).If you like, you can try all this out while you are reading the file, just sothat you get used to the service.    The phone number for this service is: 1-800-348-6551. When you first dialthe number, and it answers, you'll hear this: "<Beep><Beep><Beep><Booo> Hello.You've reached the telemessages service. The person you are calling ispresently unavailable. To leave a message, enter the address of the person youare calling; or to access your regular message box, enter the pound sign".    Most of the hacking that you are going to be doing is on the "regularmessage box". This is where the people get the messages that people have sentto them. You would dial the pound key after that announcement. To make yourlife easier, you never have to wait for those recordings to finish. You caninterrupt the lady only after she has begun speaking, but you can dial thepound key right after the beeps. After pressing the pound key, you will hearanother recording: "Please enter your id number". It is here that you wouldenter someone's id number. You will then hear a short "beep". Another recordingwill come on if it is a valid number: "You have XX new messages, and XX savedmessages". New messages are ones that you haven't heard yet, saved messages arethe ones that you wanted to keep for later reading, or rereading.    There are different types of boxes on this service. Some have "GreetingMessages" and "Bulletins", some have a strange method of picking up messages. Iwill go over those now:    If you have messages waiting, you can receive them by dialing "2".Sometimes, it won't give you that option, so you will have to dial "011" foryour new messages, or "012" for your saved messages. When you are listening toyour messages, you may dial a "2" to pause, and another "2" to continue. A "3"will rewind the messages a couple of seconds back, and a "4" will fast forwardthe message. Usually, if you hit the "4" key twice in a row quickly, it willjump to the end of the message and beep, giving you a second menu.    After you have heard the message, you are given these options:        022: Reply back to the person        021: Redirect the message          7: Save the message          5: Delete the message    Dialing the asterisk at any point is like an abort command. It usually willstop what you are doing and go to the last menu before what you are currentlydoing. If you dial the asterisk at the top menu, "To get your new messages,dial 011...etc", you will get a recording that says, "GoodBye", and then behung up.HACKING GTE TELEMAIL====================    ....is a pain, but it works.    The object when hacking these things is find out as many 6 digit personalid codes as possible. You see, to send someone a message, that involves a 7digit code. Since the 6 digit code is easier to get, and gives you moreinformation, you have to scan through an entire prefix of numbers to get asmany id codes as possible.    All you really need is a touch tone fone, and a notebook. It's handy ifyour fone has some kind of memory, and you can recall any number at a singletouch. Like my fone here, there are 12 extra buttons that you can programnumbers into.    First, you have find out a prefix for Texas. You know, a prefix, the firstthree numbers in a seven digit fone number, not counting the area code. There'slots of ways to do this. You can either whip out your fone book, or dial"1-214-555-1212" or "1-817-555-1212". Most of the time, you can phreak to thosetwo numbers from any service. I know that Sprint lets you.    Tear out a separate piece of paper from the notebook, and draw up a chartthat looks similar to this:           0    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9           1    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9           2    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9           3    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9           4    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9           5    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9           6    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9           7    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9           8    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9           9    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9    The chart stands for numbers from 00-99. The first row, represents "00-09",the second row would be "10-19" (understand?). To read it, the number on thefarthest left is the first digit in the number, then you just go from "0-9" onthe rest of the row for the second digit. It's easier than writing out "00-99"in order.    Now, take the 3 digit prefix in Texas, and add a "0" after it. In otherwords, if the prefix you picked was "123" (No, that's not a real workingprefix), then you'd have "1230". If you are using the programmable fone that Imentioned before, put this four digit number into a key, or somewhere on thefone that you can retrieve it easily.    Dial up the number (1-800-348-6551), and wait for the"<beep><beep><beep><boo>", as soon as you hear the last <Boo> sound, hit thepound key. As soon as the lady begins to speak, hit the key that has those fournumbers programmed into it, or manually dial those four numbers. After that,dial the two digit number that you get from the chart. This should make 6digits in all. If it's an invalid code, you will get this recording: "We'resorry, we are unable to process the id you entered, please try again." As soonas you hear the lady start to say "We're sorry", hit the asterisk button.You'll hear two quick beeps. Cross out the number on the chart that didn'twork. For example:  You just began the dialing, you picked "123" for a prefix,and added the "0" on to get "1230". You were starting from the first line ofyour chart, which looks like this:        0    0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9You would dial the number and everything, press the pound sign, and hit the keythat had the "1230" on it, or if you didn't have that kind of fone, you woulddial the "1230" manually. You would then dial a "00". If that was invalid, andthe recording began saying "We're sorry....", you hit the asterisk, and thencross out the zero (not the farthest one on the left).    If the code didn't work, you would go on to the next number. In theexample, you would be dialing "01". If the "123001" didn't work, you'd crossout the "1" and go onto "02".    GTE Telemail only gives you three tries at getting an id code. On the thirdtry, you will get this kind of recording (which, by the way, you can abort, andhit "*" where it will just hang up on you): "We are still unable to processyour id. For assistance, please call 800-527-1149. Thank You" <click>.    Now, let's say that you didn't get one of these recordings, but you heard ashort beep after you entered in the whole id. That means you got a working idcode! On your chart, don't cross out the number, but circle it. In thenotebook, write out the entire 6 digit id code.    If there are no messages on the box, just hit the asterisk until you hear"good-bye", and go onto the next number on your chart. If there ARE messages,you want to read them without the owner knowing. In some situations, that'simpossible, but just don't kill anybody's messages.    You want to try to keep all NEW messages NEW, so that if the original owner