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Remove phone number in ICQ

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Hi,
does anyone have an idea how to remove the phone number in an icq account?
I take any tip, regardless if it is easy, complicated or even illegal.

ICQ help does not provide even a faint hint of help.

Thank you.
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I wish I could help.
Looking at this ICQ wiki might lead to something?
Fascinating the Russians own it, AOL is being bought by Verizon.
Verizon manages the US Defense Departments and other government agencies networks.
This is almost as silly as China Unicom being one of Verizon's preferred trading partners.
Wahoo.

In all silliness - maybe this link Change the number to time or weather or maybe the Kremlin's main phone number. :twisted:
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Thanks.

I found that page too. The only problem is that the shown menu does not exist (anymore) in ICQ.
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Maybe you could use these to find where the menu went.
Used to use them to disassemble Windows and it may help making things more visible.
use Directory Snoop to find related files. . .
. . . and use 010 Hex editor to edit the files making things more visible.
If all this is in the cloud it's unlikely you can mess with it except give up the account.
Maybe some coder for AOL is floating around and can help. It's their fault. ;)
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It is in the cloud ...
Yep, it's always their fault. ;-)
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Was tooling around Google UK and came upon this site Delete your ICQ account
There's a direct link on the page.
Seems to be the trend to dump the accounts. Don't know if it removes the phone number.
ICQ delete account same appears in Google UK

May seem too long in the past but because of the change in ownership you might need the appropriate Cyrillic font and there was a problem with encoding in the past with one bit and two bit Cyrillic characters.
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Well, isn't it absurd to delete an account just to get rid of *one* data in the account?
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Sorry, thought it may have been part of your process. :oops:
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No need for that.
I came to the same conclusion earlier. But there is still hope ...
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Is this what you meant by hope?
Removing Phone Contacts
Q. You wish to delete your phone contacts from your account (after phone book synchronization)
A. Our next version 3.02 (android) and 3.03 (iPhone) both expected to be available in December, will allow you to hide phone contacts
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Have you searched on how to change your phone number? I think you can do that through view --> profile (I used ICQ for about 12 days in 1999). If so, you could change to something like 000-000-0000 or the German equivalent.
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To change your number you have to enter another valid phone number because the security code is sent to the new number.
There is no way to delete it because you have to enter a new one.
In ICQ lite seems to be a menu item but not in "real" ICQ clients.
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If the code is copyable or movable?
What would happen if you bought a cheap $10 flip phone deal, had the security code sent to the flip phone.
Dump the flip phone and move the code to the new phone with a call forwarding setup from the flip phone?
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Definitely a possibility. But until someone really calls it is a bit over the top.
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What would happen if you used a phone number you wished to keep?
Example: Want to remove "a" but want to keep "b,c or d" numbers
Change "a" to "b, c or d" it's a duplicate but it removes the phone number, sends the code to the number specified and allows keeping the others.
Might be something to try.
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