On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere <[email protected]> wrote: <snipped> > > >> (BTW Sierra Leone is in West Africa, not the Middle East.) >> > > True ;) Most of the calls were Iraq, UAE, Lebanon... Found another one > today that was 2.5 DAYS long to Chile. Bizarre. > > j >
Not bizarre at all. You being in the Virgin Islands should know what that is probably about. http://www.snopes.com/fraud/telephone/809.asp I have a general questionnaire prior to planning the installation. One question is about international calls and using a PIN (Authenticate(1234356)), totally blocking, having a few phones in a separate context that can dial international. Usually, I will explain the nature of an IP PBX and the dangers of fraud, then go over what they "NEED". If you do this along with locking things down, hopefully you won't run into any more fraud, but as you have seen first hand, there is big money to be made, so assume you are defending against an international crime ring with lots of time and knowledge. Once you do your bit and cover your bases, then if there is fraud, you save face and provide guidance rather than damage control. http://www.infiltrated.net/asterisk-ips.html found that link while looking googling for Nufone. It appears there is may be more to the story than I knew. I know JerJer claimed to have received a bill for $500k due to fraud. I am not sure what happened after that but I am seeing information about charges against him for mail fraud. Thanks, Steve T -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- New to Asterisk? Join us for a live introductory webinar every Thurs: http://www.asterisk.org/hello asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
