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ICQ Spoofing Question (or second dumb question of the day)


From: Leon Rosenstein <l_rosenstein () MONTELSHOW COM>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:29:18 -0400

Mandatory opening statement; I am not sure if this is meant for this list
but I have feeling it is.  Please flame me in private ;)

Is it possible (with any OS, or ICQ Clone) to spoof being a random chatter?
What I mean is this; if you set yourself up for random chat sometimes
someone will see your profile and message you.  On your ICQ client it comes
up with a subdivision that says random.  I am wondering if this is
spoofable.  For example if I know someone’s ICQ number and I want to pretend
to be a totally random person can I fake this (for social engineering
purposes)?  Again I would be curious if the answer is yes as to what
platform and what client (I guess what client is probably only *ix
specific.)


Thanks again.

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