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Dialling a code to listen to other people's cell phone converation

This is wild. IOL reports that a person using the Vodacom network can eavesdrop on other people's conversations by dialling a code via the cell company's customer care service.

"After dialling the code, the cellphone will randomly track conversations between people on the Vodacom network within a 15km radius.

Shockingly, the people on the other end of the line will not know that their conversations are being listened to. In addition, the eavesdropper is not charged for the call.

This startling discovery was made during a joint investigation by the Pretoria News and Talk Radio 702 on Thursday.

This was apparently discovered by schoolchildren who regularly tap into people's conversations during their lunch break".

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