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I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud

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Re: I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud

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Last year I recorded a bunch of calls on a hacked pbx.. I wasn't expecting to hear regular calls of folks who didn't even know they were being routed through a hacked pbx system. https://www.mnxsolutions.com/security/i-accidentally-recorde...

Thank you for this. I had no idea this was possible.

Re: I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud

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I have a related story. I was in North America, looking for an apartment in Australia. At the time I'd buy phone cards for long distance calls, and they'd always work fine. So, I used the phone card, and tried to call someone about an apartment that looked great. According to the advertisement, it was a woman that owned the apartment and she had an extra bedroom she was renting. I called, and a man answered. It went…

I wonder if they've done any research on what sort of recording keeps people on the line the longest.

I would guess fake ringing tones, because the victim would think the phone hasn't been picked up yet. Animal Farm might work once or twice for curiosity's sake, but eventually people will cotton on. With a fake ring tone, they'd keep dialling until someone picks up.

Re: I Dialed a Wrong Number and Stumbled into International Phone Fraud

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Should that have really been your concern? If every company that processes cards has to be fraud detecting experts, then they CC system is totally broken.

As Harry Tuttle said, "We're all in it together." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlCPkmb6cuY Which is why it pisses me off when a company deploys insecure software or hardware, claiming that network security is the customer's responsibility. So my home network should be reasonably secure, so that it doesn't become part of a bot net. Which means that I have to, or should, become at least knowledgeable enough to know…

I get that, but the problem is we all accepted the system into our lives before it was ready and now the key players have, by their own design, no incentive to improve. Who do we submit bugs to in this scenario?
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