The dial-through fraudsters using VoIP to outwit detectives
26 April 2007
At around 6.30 on a Friday evening in February the phones in the head office of Manchester-based tool distribution company, Joseph Gleave & Son, started to give an occasional ping. The company was under a sustained and well-orchestrated attack from fraudsters who were hacking into its phone system.
At around 6.30 on a Friday evening in February the phones in the head office of Manchester-based tool distribution company, Joseph Gleave & Son, started to give an occasional ping. The company was under a sustained and well-orchestrated attack from fraudsters who were hacking into its phone system.
Over the weekend they ran up a bill of £2,100 in illegal overseas calls to 19 countries - including Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Ecuador, Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Sudan, Serbia and the Republic of Yemen. The biggest single item was £71 on one call to Afghanistan, where local call termination charges are among the highest in the world.
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