The phone has been and remains one of the tools comuincación largest ever created, and its enormous potential vector obviously opened for business from legitimate sources, and for all kinds of scams and tricks . The goal is always the same: Get an extra ticket, or a costly service for free. Television and computers have been used and abused the phone for nefarious objectives, and if you look carefully you'll notice that the trend still exists, although it certainly has changed. Here is an overview of the best known examples, including CD's of some company, but were legal, we did mourn pain.
Once upon a time ...
... in the last years of the decade of 1950. Although the patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell telephone is dated 1876, it is true that in the 50s, the phone still had more luxury than the basic service. There are countless examples in books and movies where someone should go to "Village Store" or a neighbor's farm long ago to make a call. But leaving aside the fiction, at some point in 1957, we met a young man named eight years Josef Carl Jr Engressia ., Who was born being blind. After four years, Engressia became fascinated with the phones. At five, he discovered he could dial numbers "beating" hang switch on phones that had protected the dial or disabled. However, Engressia was gifted with perfect pitch, and seven years found that whistling a tone (2600 Hz) , could trigger automatic switches Bell, and after extensive exploration of the system, find ways to make free telephone. Marked an extraordinary genius for his blindness and abuses suffered child Engressia (who legally adopted the name "Joybubbles") changed the history of telephony, and other titans of the computer as Steve Wozniak, took it as inspiration.
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| Engressia The discovery led to the development of the famous "blue box", which generated 2600 Hz tone and enable the marking. Who did this? None other than Steve Wozniak. (Source: Wikipedia) |
The phenomenon of "phreaking " and the birth of the famous "colored boxes" , maybe it was the original reason why telephone companies open their nuclear silos and began to hunt down all those who practiced in one form or another. Engressia, the famous Captain Crunch (Joe Draper) with the whistle of cereal, and many other experts at the time were arrested and convicted on charges of fraud phone, regardless of the fact that they were "exploring" system and not "exploiting" . For companies were making free phone calls, therefore "stealing" your , when in fact they were our own vulnerabilities of a supposedly secure system that allowed this. At the same time, it also captured much less scrupulous than others made a mess with this knowledge. But Joybubbles ? I just wanted to work for Bell not ruin it.
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| The present value of these whistles exceeds $ 60 on eBay, and growing (Source: TechRadar) |
Numbers "premium"
Of course, phone fraud was far beyond, and was not necessarily the technology side of the fence. The offer "special services" through "premium number" have been with us for decades. Television programs, past and present, have resorted to this kind of numbers for earnings calls. While the premium numbers are technically legal, the issue has been the way in which they have been used. There are cases reported during the 80s in some TV commercials tempted to younger children "play" with the phone, telling them that they should dial a number to start. That was as unsuspecting parents were with astronomical sums on the phone bill, all because there were no restrictions on these kinds of numbers. Even an episode of "The Simpsons" show this, when Lisa has problems with hotline Corey.
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| No explanation needed for this ... |
"Piiiiiii ..."
As some may imagine, the meeting between the phone lines and computers was inevitable. Art history of the modems back to 1920, but the real "explosion" between modems came through the "Smartmodem" introduced in 1981, the year in which, by universal coincidences (or perhaps not so much) , appeared the IBM PC. Improved design, speed increased, there was even a war in the middle protocols ( K56Flex versus X2) , and eventually led to the Internet connection services via dial- -up. " Remember this?
Well, that noise accompanied us for years, but so we had to deal with the famous " dialers." The " dialer" or "marker " is nothing more than a device designed to dial automatically. We have seen a great example in the movie "WarGames" and there is another excellent chapter in "The Simpsons in which Homer is one of these merciless machines and starts nothing less than a telemarketing fraud , another variation of phone fraud . But at the computer, the "dialer" became a very annoying malware. The dialer came disguised as a security program or a "free" (without going any further, pornography, or the same Internet connection) .
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| An example of dialer, real nightmare at the time of 'dial-up' (source: TrendMicro) |
By accepting access, exposing your system user to install a malicious program that automatically configured by default a telephone connection to a number of high cost premium, and there are even copies mute the modem to camouflage your remote connection. A computer could spend hours connected to a premium number "and" long distance, so the amount directly on the ballot was the only tangible clue to the user that something was wrong with your connection. The dialers proved a very complex bugs eradicated, and even today you can find examples beyond the advance of broadband and the decline in the popularity of dial-up .
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| In times that raged dialers, there were other forms of fraud. Telefónica should have annulled the card readers in public phones in some countries due to the use of modified cards. (Source: worldpayphones.com) |
This storm called "America On-Line"
Although this is not within the phone fraud has been a fact that was the limit of patience of millions of users, and defining "commercial abuse" . The nightmare ended in 2006, but before that time, floppy disks initially (approximately July 1993) and CD's at a later stage, full mailboxes, newspapers, stores and basically any place that could be offered. I personally remember that stores sell appliances that were taking their first steps in providing computers, they placed a kind of place where people could take the CD's willingly . With the promise of tens, hundreds or even thousands of hours of free Internet , CD's from America On-Line took by assault the planet. Officials acknowledge that at some point, half of world production of optical discs ended with the logo of America On-Line on its surface.
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| If I see one of these again physically ... I will run. As a coward. |
were basically two problems: People misunderstood the concept of "free" , and the software that came on the CD's was a real mess. to read "1000 hours of free Internet" , there were many who assumed that connect "cost nothing" , when in fact it was free internet access and not the completion of the call. On the software side, well ... I can only say that before writing to arg and other means, my service work was simplified to face dozens of computers reduced to a digital mass poor "nothing" due to dialer owner put AOL in these CD's. "Most disturbing of all? It was a well planned campaign. Steve Case, former CEO of America On-Line at the time, said in Quran that in the early '90s, the goal was to spend up to ten percent of the gain obtained through the average duration of a subscription. This average was twenty-five months, adding about $ 350 profit, therefore, America On-Line estimated to spend about $ 35 for each potential customer . Jan Brandt, another former CEO, offered a number: $ 300 million , something that assume only the United States. The amount of CD's? Conveniently there is no official data on that, but some estimates put the figure in more than one billion records .
Phones and the "neo-fraud"
With the advent of broadband, dialer effectiveness as a tool for fraud is limited to those systems that still rely on a dial to enter the Web . All that remains of "marked" in ADSL is the word (since this is more of a "login") , while the cable modem has nothing to do with it. But with the advance mobile telephony, the forms of fraud have also been adapted. Who has not met with an ad that offers to send poems, love tips, photos of nude celebrities and many other things to your phone, by sending a message? These "services" have very similar performance to premium numbers, with the difference that alter the price (well above the nominal rate) messages. Realizing the deception, the user continues to send messages asking for the floor, feeding back the scam and consuming your credit quickly. I have witnessed several cases where people have seen forced to cancel your phone line and replace it with a different number, because this kind of horror.
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| New forms of fraud and found room between the existing communication platform (Source: vo2.co.nz) |
And this continues . Today I woke up twice with the intention to offer "long distance packages" , and on average I am getting spam SMS per day, even without registering to any service. There is a trend indicating a decrease in the number of phone lines in favor of mobile and IP telephony. Technology changes, but so will the scams and deceptions. There is no other choice but to be vigilant, and that includes anyone who wants to bathe in the spirit of those pioneers of telephony, and decides to find out how the system works. Companies have become relentless, and can detect many disturbances to line. No matter which side of the fence you are, beware .
Source:
http://www.neoteo.com/fraude-telefonico-dialers-e-informatica.neo
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