Sending SMS Messages

People post pictures of their SMS messages on Flickr. Really.My friend Will was in meetings all day Friday, and there are few better times to have SMS messaging than in meetings. Thing is, I didn’t want to type on my phone’s numeric keypad when I had my computer in front of me, so I went looking for the details of this old hint that describes how to send SMS messages with iChat (would also work with any AIM client).

But there are other solutions. Slipstick lists the email addresses for various networks’ email to SMS gateways. And, obviously, most networks have web forms to send SMSs. Here’s Verizon’s.

This leads to a few questions. In these days of number portability, how can a person identify the carrier for a particular phone number based on the number alone? Will these web and email to SMS gateways work for off-network numbers (i.e. will Nextel’s gateway send SMS to Sprint?)? Is there another network agnostic gateway besides the AIM service identified above?

About the picture: there are a number of entertaining sms-tagged photos on Flickr.

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44 Comments

  1. Comment by kris on June 28, 2005 2:57 pm

    Funny…I just spent a few hours last week writing a very ugly VBS script to send SMS messages easily without requiring me to open Thunderbird or a web browser.

    Services like Yahoo! Mobile and Backpack’s reminders can send SMS messages, but as far as I know, they’re just using the same email addresses that Verizon, et. al. expose to everyone. A quick search on Google turns up all kinds of commercial SMS gateways, but all of the ones in the top 20 results want some sort of subscription.

    There is at least one FreeBSD licensed WAP/SMS Gateway, and a few commerical versions that might be capable of sending carrier agnostic messages. But, with such a high probability of the service being abused, who would want to set that up on a publically available server?

  2. Comment by Joe Maddalone on September 5, 2006 8:46 pm

    Not sure if this helps…

    I wrote a small ASP.NET script to send SMS over email from our server - mostly for friends to use and since my cell service is such crap.

    Benn trying to figure out how to handle the whole from name, S:, M: issues - but I have a feeling those may only be appearing on my POs phone…

    http://www.text-send.com

    [tags]SMS, Email, .NET[/tags]

  3. Comment by ddgajjar on August 17, 2007 4:01 am

    content of switch of sms

  4. Comment by joshua on September 4, 2007 12:25 am

    If you got a spare phone, you can try hooking up using a data cable to this freeware SMS Sender software: sms software…. Hope it helps. :)

  5. Comment by srikanth on October 22, 2007 5:04 am

    tell me how to send fake sms to my friends us

  6. Comment by Bob on November 12, 2007 2:36 pm

    I think my gf is cheating on me. Is there away to see her texts? She guards that phone like a pit bull…

  7. Comment by michelle on November 13, 2007 9:46 am

    Im writing in reference to Bob’s post wondering if I can check my husbands texts. I think he talks to my girlfriens. He probably thinks he’s smooth. Any help?

  8. Comment by mp on December 10, 2007 12:18 am

    Bob, did anyone offer you any info on checking out someones text messages? would appreciate if you have any tips. Thanks. MP

  9. Comment by mike on December 12, 2007 10:18 pm

    My girlfriend does the same thing, hack their voicemail

  10. Comment by aditya on January 10, 2008 11:43 am

    can neone tell me from where can i send a fake sms using some one else number . i need to send a message to my xgalfrds coz she ditched me badly n now i want her to suffer.. so plz pals .. give me some site from where i can send free sms using a fake number

  11. Comment by aditya on January 11, 2008 9:33 am

    hey guys plz help me wit this plz give me some websites from where i can send a fake sms with some other mobile number.. my galfds cheating on me …so i just wanna check.. plz mail me if any one can.. thanks adi:)

  12. Comment by docmaxs on February 2, 2008 12:39 am

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  13. Comment by docmaxs on February 2, 2008 12:41 am

    Free fake sms

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  15. Comment by jen on February 7, 2008 2:09 pm

    Hey… I need help checking text messages too.

  16. Comment by Worriedgrl on February 11, 2008 12:35 pm

    Someone sent my boyfriend a message saying that I was dumping him and it showed up under ny phone number like I sent it from my phone. Can someone tell me how this can be and if I can find out who did this

  17. Comment by Josh on March 3, 2008 1:43 am

    Is there any way to intercept or cc yourself to someone elses phone text msgs? Any way of retrieving text msgs sent to someone elses phone?

  18. Comment by dorena on April 7, 2008 6:29 pm

    I’m in the middle of a legal matter and my x-husbands girlfriend is saying that i’m texting her with alot of horrible things she supposedly showed police her phone(palm treo 700) and it showed up as my number, but how is that possible when I never did!!! Please help!!!!! I have a LG Rumor

  19. Comment by zaman on April 9, 2008 3:37 am

    Hi;
    how i can hack others mobil via sms and get their information such as(theirs sms,…)?

  20. Comment by docmaxs on April 16, 2008 7:43 am

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  21. Comment by joel on May 12, 2008 12:03 pm

    need help asap!!
    need to check my gf text messagess

  22. Comment by pam on May 30, 2008 3:35 am

    Hi ,

    Please let me know how i can hack my girl firend’s sms. She is using
    Sony erricson handset. Your help is required urgently dude. I think i have
    beeen cheated by her.

  23. Comment by sachin on May 31, 2008 2:25 pm

    hi,

    Please let me know how i can hack my girl firend’s sms. She is using
    Sony erricson w810i handset. I think i have
    beeen cheated by her.your help is needed very badly

  24. Comment by cavin on May 31, 2008 2:26 pm

    hi,

    Please let me know how i can hack my girl firend’s sms. She is using
    Sony erricson w810i handset. I think i have
    beeen cheated by her.your help is needed very badly guys….

  25. Comment by Shwetha on June 6, 2008 2:09 am

    plz help me in hacking my boyfrnd’s sms.hez been getting msgs from his x-girlfrnd but not telling me..help me plz..

  26. Comment by raj on June 26, 2008 5:44 am

    I have been thrown out of my job because a girl showed the authorities that i have sent her dirty smses from my mobile number whereas i haven’t send her these smses.But no-one is willing to believe me.Can any1 help me by tips and tricks how my mobile could have been hacked?Both the mobiles I am talking about are nokia Multimedia mobiles.

  27. Comment by necey on July 6, 2008 12:57 am

    Does anyone know how to hack into a ATT cellphone account?

  28. Comment by necey on July 6, 2008 12:57 am

    Does anyone know how to hack into a ATT cellphone account?

  29. Comment by JR on July 11, 2008 7:08 am

    Is there any software that can be installed “virtualy” in someones metro pcs cel phone that will record phone calls, incoming and outgoing numbers, conversations, txt messages with forwarding service to an email address or a foreign cel phone?

  30. Comment by JR on July 11, 2008 7:09 am

    Does anyone know how to hack into a ATT IPHONE?
    THE GOAL: record phone calls, incoming and outgoing numbers, conversations, txt messages with forwarding service to an email address.
    THANKS

  31. Comment by REmo on July 15, 2008 1:21 am

    How to hack a mobile device via sms using software? Does the bluetooth function need to be enabled on a phone for it to be hacked? N E up 4 hire?

  32. Comment by REmo on July 15, 2008 1:21 am

    How to hack a mobile device via sms using software? Does the bluetooth function need to be enabled on a phone for it to be hacked? N E up 4 hire?

  33. Comment by The Impossinle on July 23, 2008 11:33 am

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  35. Comment by fred on October 21, 2008 3:13 am

    i have become the victim of 2 issues
    1. recieving nasty sms
    2.a business partner recieving sms from some of my old numbers as well as from numbers associated with me
    these sms have made me slightly paranoid as well as destroying a most special friendship.
    my questions ar
    1. How and who is able to do this could it be originating from someone who works for the cell provider
    2.how can i find out who it is

  36. Comment by aarif on December 18, 2008 9:55 am

    hi,

    Please let me know how i can hack my girl firend’s sms. She is using
    Sony erricson w810i handset. I think i have
    beeen cheated by her.your help is needed very badly guys….

  37. Comment by nikos on January 5, 2009 10:28 pm

    i want to spy my sisters mobile phone via sms i cannot have the phone to install directly a software and i must send her an sms with software to spy their sms send and receive i need any informations you have for making this spy by sms please give me any solution!!!! i have the imei

    nikos

  38. Comment by raj on February 9, 2009 4:31 pm

    i want to hack sms of my frnds num can u help me.or wat can i do for tht…………../?

  39. Comment by pam on March 9, 2009 11:06 pm

    How do you stop a person from hacking into your sms text messages?

  40. Comment by abbey26 on April 18, 2009 5:42 pm

    hey guys..i badly need help..i am from india and need to locate a person and his/her details like name , place and so on….if there is any such soft which can hack other mobile by simply sending an sms then it will be great help..or else kindly help me find details of this number +919892416823..this is the cellphone number and the operator is Airtel please send me the details if possible…

  41. Comment by ravi on April 20, 2009 5:45 am

    i want to send sms from my friend1’s mobile to friend2.

  42. Comment by sunny on May 5, 2009 4:18 pm

    hi plz tell me how can i hack my girl friend mobile sms she is using tataindicom hand set

  43. Comment by ed roland on June 13, 2009 8:28 am

    Hey all you kids, come over here and listen a minute. You got your problems, I know, I been there. What I got now I need you little ones to help with. My wife had been seeing someone since before we even began dating (which would have been really cool with me to point out when I met her instead of when I found her texting pics of herself 3 years later.) And she’s a prof, he’s on the board and I was just an MBA student - which one of those got to roll on outta B’ton.? All I have is some bank accts, decent text records and phone, but they of course don’t have the content. Do any of these ATT features I never heard of work where I could get some more info about what has been up? Like M2MC and M2M Text and sometimes his says ‘other” instead of text, like she’s downloading him some secret off the internet and sending it. I can’t get to her phone, her computer, anything. Been trying all that. Best I got is no money - figuring out where she was spending it is making me less worried about court, though; I got 2 1/2 years of cell phone and text message records (BUT I can’t figuree out how not to PAY $15!!) everytime I run across a cell number reverse search. I took enough of your time. It’s Saturday morning. Go watch some cartoons and then get outside and play. And then let me know what I can learn from these codes and things like 602/Follow Me and such.
    GBY
    ER

  44. Comment by AVI on June 14, 2009 4:17 pm

    hi
    can you plzz let me know how to hack my girlfriends sms…

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