Quote Originally Posted by sparkyadam View Post
your making this out to sound like some underhanded fraudulent exercise when its blatently not...
Well, it blatently could be, or it blatently might not be. Still sounds a bit fishy to me.

As far as I know, you don't have to tap into the sim socket to pull SMS data or anything else stored on the card (except the actual identification information, PINS, etc).
Hook up to the phone thru the appropriate connector and pull the data with a PC.

anyhow it will be soldered to the phones sim card socket
Doesn't sound like a good idea either. At the speeds these cards run at these days, they're made to go on a socket for a reason. Go adding in extra wiring, solder, and so on, and you might ruin the electrical characteristics of the connection itself, thereby rendering the whole thing useless because of those disturbances. Probably didn't matter much 'back in the day' when things didn't run so fast...matters a lot more nowadays.