Dozens of minor celebrities have abandoned their Twitter accounts and are giving their voicemail codes to News of the World hackers instead.

As controversy continues to rage around allegations that the tabloid paid spies to tap the mobile phones of the rich and famous for sleazy details, demand for low security voicemail accounts has soared.

Publicity guru Max Clifford has established Famous for Five Minutes, an agency that introduces nobodies to hackers for a small fee.

Long-forgotten Big Brother evictee Sauvignon Blank said: “It’s brilliant. Nobody ever followed me on Twitter but I got three new mobiles today and I gave the numbers to Famous for Five Minutes and I’ve been talking dirty on all of them. The lads mags are queueing up.”

Other ‘celeb-nonentities’ have discovered that even if they have nothing worth saying, people pay attention if they think they are not meant to listen, according to Clifford.

But an un-named hacker who has worked for the News of the World says that the success of the conspiracy has been exaggerated.

He admitted: “We couldn’t make head nor tail of John Prescott’s voicemail at all. He seems to have some kind of scrambler encryption on it that mixes all the words up so they don’t make sense. Cunning bastard.”

Last word from Sauvignon Blank: “Have you got a camera? Shall I get my tits out? I brought them all with me just in case, yeah?”

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