The number you have reached has been disconnected?from reality.
SpoofCard.com, a company that provides the privacy-inclined with fake caller
ID numbers and voicemail service, announced Tuesday that it had dropped about 50
people--including Paris Hilton--from its client roster after it was discovered
that the mailboxes of Lindsay Lohan and other "well known celebrities" had been
hacked.
Which, in light of tabloid reports that the two are feuding (over men, party
circuit status--whatever), led to the idea that Hilton was the one who had
messed with Lohan's account.
When questioned about it by TMZ.com, SpoofCard attorney Mark Del Bianco
stated that "Paris was entering unauthorized mailboxes," but when it came to
Lohan, "a number of the 50 persons [whose service was canceled] were making
unauthorized entrances to Miss Lohan's voicemail."
Meanwhile, Hilton's rep, Elliot Mintz, told E! Online that what Del Bianco
said with regard to his client "just didn't happen" and, at this point, he can't
confirm whether the "Stars Are Blind" singer--who has been in Japan promoting
her new album, Paris--is aware that she has a SpoofCard.com account at all.
"There are so many variables," Mintz said, adding that even if there is
an account in Hilton's name, it doesn't necessarily mean she uses it or that she
even opened it herself.
"I think that is what is being suggested here is that someone may have
accessed Lindsay's outgoing message [what you hear when you dial Lohan's
number]. However, if you just go to the press release from the company, if you
read it closely, you will see that Paris is not accused of doing that. And
that's where it gets just a little confusing and ambiguous."
SpoofCard did not make a direct connection between Hilton's alleged
misdialing and Lohan's invaded privacy, but just confirmed that Hilton's service
had been axed and Lohan's mailbox messed with. The company said it came across
the telephonic breaking-and-entering while reviewing customer records for
evidence of fraud or other wrongdoing and has since added software controls to
prevent further tampering.
"In this case, [SpoofCard] will cooperate with any law enforcement inquiry
into possible violations of the Federal Stored Wire and Electronic
Communications Act involving unauthorized access to voicemail boxes," a
statement on the company's Website said.
Lohan's rep, Leslie Sloane Zelnick, couldn't be reached for comment but had
previously told TMZ.com that she "has turned this matter over to Lindsay's
lawyers."
Mintz expressed his sympathy for Lohan's plight, having watched Hilton deal
with getting her T-Mobile Sidekick hacked into in February of last year. The
contact info for a bunch of the Simple Life star's famous pals, including Lohan,
ended up posted on the Internet, leading to a surge in requests for unpublicized
unlisted numbers.
"No one has been a greater victim of the hacking world than Paris has," he
said. "And she knows firsthand how embarrassing and disturbing that sort of
stuff can be."
Zelnick told the New York Post's Page Six last month that someone had stolen
her client's BlackBerry password and sent Lohan's friends "disgusting and very
mean messages that everyone thought were coming from Lindsay. They weren't. We
now have her lawyers looking into it. Some people think Paris may have been
involved because the wording of the messages sounds very familiar." (As in,
"that's hot"?)
Lohan also aired her grievances in Elle recently, telling the magazine that
she had been getting prank calls, and dropping a clue as to her feelings about a
certain blond hotel heiress.
"[The callers would] be screaming and saying stuff that was said in the
firecrotch video"--the video making the Internet rounds featuring heir-head
Brandon Davis yelling out something rather graphic about Lohan, with Hilton
smiling in the background.
"Obviously Paris is very comfortable making videos," Lohan said.
