Man Carged With Selling Hacked VoIP Services

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Ingenious, but (obviously, and needless to say) illegal.

Via InfoWorld.

[snip]

A Miami man was charged Wednesday with stealing more than 10 million minutes of VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) 
telephone service and then selling them to unsuspecting customers for as little as US$0.004 per minute.

Edwin Pena paid a Washington State computer hacker named Robert Moore about $20,000 to help him illegally route 
Internet telephone calls through the networks of more than 15 unnamed VOIP companies, according to criminal complaints 
made available by the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Pena presented himself as a legitimate telecommunications wholesaler, while at the same time using hacking techniques 
to steal networking services valued at as much as $300,000 from each of the carriers.

"They had hoped they had engineered a brilliant toll-free calling network for themselves," said Newark FBI Special 
Agent Charge Leslie Wiser Jr. in the statement. "They hoped wrong."

[snip]

More:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/07/79053_HNvoiphack_1.html

- ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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