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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Edwin
Andres Pena charged customers more than $1 million to route calls for them,
according to FBI complaints made public with Pena's arrest in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Florida</st1:place></st1:State>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Pena
paid $20,000 to hacker Robert Moore, of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Spokane</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Wash.</st1:State></st1:place>, according to court papers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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least 15 Internet phone companies were victimized, with one suffering as much
as $300,000 in lost fees, prosecutors said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Pena
allegedly was able to secretly route 500,000 calls through a Newark-based
provider identified in the complaint as "N.T.P.," which appears to be
Net2Phone. Messages seeking comment from the company, and its corporate parent,
IDT Corp., were not immediately returned Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-biz-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Mike Taht<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, June 08, 2006 4:58
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Commercial
and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [!! SPAM] Re:
[asterisk-biz] More re VoIP Fraud</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I take it you are on the
asterisk-biz list<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 6/8/06, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Greg
Broiles</span></b> <<a href="mailto:gbroiles@gmail.com">gbroiles@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>See the NY Times article at<br>
<<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/technology/08voice.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/technology/08voice.html</a>>
re two men<br>
charged with reselling more than $1M worth of service stolen from <br>
other VoIP providers, apparently using login credentials obtained<br>
through brute-force searches.<br>
<br>
The original complaints are available at<br>
<<a
href="http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/publicaffairs/NJ_Press/files/pdffiles/penacomplaint.pdf">
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/publicaffairs/NJ_Press/files/pdffiles/penacomplaint.pdf</a>><br>
and <<a
href="http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/publicaffairs/NJ_Press/files/pdffiles/moorecomplaint.pdf">http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nj/publicaffairs/NJ_Press/files/pdffiles/moorecomplaint.pdf
</a>>.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Greg Broiles, JD, LLM Tax, EA<br>
<a href="mailto:gbroiles@gmail.com">gbroiles@gmail.com</a> (Lists only. Not for
confidential communications.)<br>
Law Office of Gregory A. Broiles<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Jose</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State></st1:place><br>
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