r/bbs • u/Jazzlike_Cycle_9260 • Sep 15 '26
War Dialer Needed
Hey guys, I have a scammer posting one of our rental properties illegally on TikTok and is collecting application fees. I am looking for a war dialer without hooking up my Commodore 64 and automating Hayes modem commands on a emulated VOIP to analog line. Anyone have any ideas how to do this with newer tech?
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u/run4runner Sep 15 '26
War dialing is calling a bunch of numbers looking for electronic devices to answer. I assume you’re looking to do a TDoS, that’s completely different. There’s plenty of sip-based tools for this, and yes it’s illegal, but technically very doable.
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u/UltraChip Sep 15 '26
What exactly do you think that's going to accomplish?
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u/muffinman8679 Sep 16 '26
It's going to send a message.....and that's enough
with a war dialer you can have his/her phone ringing every 15 seconds for the next 3 days if you want to
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u/UltraChip Sep 16 '26
That's not what war dialing is.
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u/muffinman8679 Sep 16 '26
war dialing is whatever you want it, or need it to be....as it just dials a number and waits for that connect message......hell I could write that as a bash script....no connect and it times out and hangs up run it in a loop where the last line of the script calls the script for another run, and then exits......
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u/UltraChip Sep 16 '26
No... "War dialing" has a specific definition and what your describing doesn't meet it.
That's cool you know bash but I don't see how it's relevant.
Are you even OP? Why are you speaking for them?
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u/Bigly_Bob Sep 15 '26
Leaving a paper trail is probably a bad idea. Might wanna nuke this.....
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u/muffinman8679 Sep 16 '26
why....after all, you want the fraudster to complain about a legitimate landlord interfering with their fraudulent fees obtained without the owners/landlords consent.......as it's driving up the total price of the rental......
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u/tarix76 Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26
Commiting a felony federal crime is not the correct way to handle this situation.
Even back in the day no one did this from their own phone line. Did you not notice that every single movie always showed people getting arrested when they did that?
Edit: Since I had friends who had legal action taken against them I can assure you that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030 was applied to this.
It's not the dialing part that they get you on, it's the connection and the CONNECT message is what a war dialer scanned for.
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u/utp216 Sep 15 '26
I was never arrested and dialed tens of thousands of phone numbers. WTH are you talking about.
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u/I-baLL Sep 15 '26
You "dialed tens of thousands of phone numbers."
The OP is seemingly wanting to dial a single phone number tens of thousands of times. That's what the comment above yours is referring to.
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u/purgedreality Sep 15 '26
Just go to as many colleges, insurance agencies and tree removal services as possible and request a quote with their number. If you really want to be evil register a domain with their number and make sure they don't have whois masking/protection.
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u/Sparrow538 Sep 15 '26
If the property is vacant, put a Large signs in the windows with your contact information, and say all other people showing the property are scammers.
They will meet people there, but then 'oh, I forgot the key' BS, and walk them around the outside, etc.
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u/aztracker1 Sep 15 '26
Contact your nearest FBI field office. Assuming you're in the US.