Can phones be tampered with to phone wrong person?

Is this a cell phone ?

What country is this phone in ?

Yes, but it will cost lots of money.

Ask your local government spy/law enforcment office.

They have the money.

donald

Sure, just glue different numbers onto the buttons.

Actually, most phones nowadays have a microprocessor in them, so doing what you ask is just a little software mod.

For something like a cell phone, it'd be difficult, although certainly doable if you're, e.g., the FBI. The easiest way for the average person to do it would be if the called number were already on someone's "speed dial" list -- you'd just reprogram where that speed dial entry went to. This, of course, is in no way "hidden" from the end user, but realistically it'd probably work a couple of times before the end user caught on.

For a regular landline, there is all much simpler and most electronic designers could readily build a device that provides a false dialtone, captures the dialed number, and substitutes its own before dialing "for real" if a certain number is detected.

More interesting is that you might be able to hack the phone switches themselves to redirect numbers. Accustations along these lines have been going on for decades in Las Vegas; see, e.g.,

Within some limitations. You could swap the leads on the keypad so (for example) 123 becomes 456. the pad is a simple 3x4 matrix combining 2 tones (a horizontal row combined with a vertical row) to dial. If you are talking about intercepting it at the central office level, it is trivial to reroute a number. A frame hop can easily do that by accident and with electronic switching it can be done at the console. Of course a cable splicer has the keys to the kingdom. On purpose or by accident he can virtually connect anything to anythig if it is in that cable..

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Not the 'phone itself - they are quite stupid - but with access to the exchange (or the PABX) it is easy to do.

If you have call forwarding at the destination end, you can make your own phone ring another line, otherwise, you'd have to break into the phone co's main switching whaddayacallit and reroute them, like they do on NCIS. ;-)

Good Luck! Rich

Only if you work at the company's main switching office.

Sorry. Rich

Or you can establish call forwarding.