I am not sure if this is feasible for someone to do easily so I do not bother 
you too much... but does anyone have a spreadsheet of the nanp npa-nxx(s) you 
keep a very close eye on for fraud? I am not sure how well we keep an eye on 
such things here. I would like to explore it more. Naturally we keep an very 
close watch on international and brute force attacks.

Matthew Yaklin
Network Engineer
FirstLight
359 Corporate Drive │ Portsmouth, NH 03801
Mobile 603-845-5031
myak...@firstlight.net | www.firstlight.net
This email may contain FirstLight confidential and/or privileged information. 
If you are not the intended recipient, you are directed
not to read, disclose or otherwise use this transmission and to immediately 
delete same. Delivery of this message is not intended
to waive any applicable privileges.

________________________________
From: VoiceOps <voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org> on behalf of Robert Dawson 
<rdaw...@alliedtelecom.net>
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 7:18:43 PM
To: Paul Timmins; Paul Timmins; voiceops@voiceops.org
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] 605-562 - Arbitrage scam?


Interesting that you haven’t really seen that much domestic . . . I’d say that 
domestic fraud accounts for at least 40% of the attempts we have seen over the 
last year or so, with another 40% to NANP “island” destinations (DR in 
particular) and the remaining to international. Definitely different than a few 
years back when almost everything was to African destinations.



The fraudsters are very smart and evolve over time, always have to be vigilant!



From: Paul Timmins <ptimm...@clearrate.com>
Date: Monday, June 17, 2019 at 6:48 PM
To: Robert Dawson <rdaw...@alliedtelecom.net>, Paul Timmins <p...@timmins.net>, 
"voiceops@voiceops.org" <voiceops@voiceops.org>
Subject: RE: [VoiceOps] 605-562 - Arbitrage scam?



I can just augment my existing one we developed in house easily enough. But the 
new behavior that's concerning is hacked endpoints calling the numbers. I'm 
used to "traffic pumping" being  free services people actually want leveraging 
arbitrage, but attracting fraudulent traffic from hacked handsets isn't 
something I've ever seen on domestic traffic before.



Bold, since it implies there's revenue share, and federal law can reach a tribe 
in a way that the usual banana republic telco fraud in the 3rd world can't.



-Paul





________________________________

From: VoiceOps [voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org] on behalf of Robert Dawson 
[rdaw...@alliedtelecom.net]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 6:25 PM
To: Paul Timmins; voiceops@voiceops.org
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] 605-562 - Arbitrage scam?

Jumping in on this one late – Pine Ridge is most well-known for the Ogala 
Lakota reservation that is located there. Numbers are in fact owned by Native 
American Telecom which is tribally owned and has had traffic pumping charges 
levelled against them as someone else mentioned. Payday lenders have used 
tribal law for years to get around usury laws, there was one company that was 
charging something like 900% effective interest. Repayment on a $10k loan was 
something like $75k. Wondering if they can somehow skirt Federal telecom law 
too?



Paul, you are 100% correct – any fraud detection system that is only looking at 
International destinations would not pick it up . . . you definitely need 
something that can, at a minimum, be configured to look at call velocity and 
volume to US destinations. I can make a recommendation if you are interested.



Rob



From: VoiceOps <voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org> on behalf of Paul Timmins 
<p...@timmins.net>
Date: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 4:54 PM
To: Matthew Yaklin <myak...@firstlight.net>, "voiceops@voiceops.org" 
<voiceops@voiceops.org>
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] 605-562 - Arbitrage scam?



Yeah, what makes it notable in this case is it seems like it's dead air calls 
and hacked phones like traditional international fraud, not free conference 
call services.



On 5/29/19 4:16 PM, Matthew Yaklin wrote:

Nevermind.. you meant interstate calling fraud detection systems I assume. 
Sorry. Please ignore me. I just reread again.



Matthew Yaklin

Network Engineer

FirstLight

359 Corporate Drive │ Portsmouth, NH 03801

Mobile 603-845-5031

myak...@firstlight.net<mailto:myak...@firstlight.net> | 
www.firstlight.net<http://www.firstlight.net>

This email may contain FirstLight confidential and/or privileged information. 
If you are not the intended recipient, you are directed

not to read, disclose or otherwise use this transmission and to immediately 
delete same. Delivery of this message is not intended

to waive any applicable privileges.



________________________________

From: VoiceOps 
<voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org><mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org> on behalf 
of Matthew Yaklin <myak...@firstlight.net><mailto:myak...@firstlight.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 4:14:02 PM
To: Paul Timmins; voiceops@voiceops.org<mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org>
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] 605-562 - Arbitrage scam?



Paul,



Why do you mention international toll fraud when that is an area code and 
exchange for

Pine Ridge South Dakota?



And just imagining how small that company must be wouldn't a logical guess be 
more like they just messed up in some fashion?



But in your defense that telecom company is fishy and Sprint tried to sue them. 
I am not sure what ended up happening. Typical crap with free conf stuff and 
having traffic sent to a high cost area...







Matthew Yaklin

Network Engineer

FirstLight

359 Corporate Drive │ Portsmouth, NH 03801

Mobile 603-845-5031

myak...@firstlight.net<mailto:myak...@firstlight.net> | 
www.firstlight.net<http://www.firstlight.net>

This email may contain FirstLight confidential and/or privileged information. 
If you are not the intended recipient, you are directed

not to read, disclose or otherwise use this transmission and to immediately 
delete same. Delivery of this message is not intended

to waive any applicable privileges.



________________________________

From: VoiceOps 
<voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org><mailto:voiceops-boun...@voiceops.org> on behalf 
of Paul Timmins <p...@timmins.net><mailto:p...@timmins.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 3:50:35 PM
To: voiceops@voiceops.org<mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org>
Subject: [VoiceOps] 605-562 - Arbitrage scam?



Is anyone else seeing lots of long duration calls to the 605-562
exchange that when you dial the respective number, it supervises to dead
air?

Seems like a new kind of toll fraud that international fraud detection
systems won't catch.

-Paul

_______________________________________________
VoiceOps mailing list
VoiceOps@voiceops.org<mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org>
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops


_______________________________________________
VoiceOps mailing list
VoiceOps@voiceops.org
https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops

Reply via email to