[VoiceOps] SIP Credential Strength / Domestic Fraud

[Alex Balashov]

Well, traditional end-office access charges are mostly not a thing anymore, so it has got a bit complicated to follow the money. An intermediate tandem of sorts used by the good country people’s salt-of-earth RLECs is sometimes involved, which is expressly what 19-94 targets. 

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> On Dec 13, 2019, at 1:56 PM, Mark Wiles <mwiles at akabis.com> wrote:
> 
> What's the famous line?
> 
> "Follow the money"
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: VoiceOps <voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org> On Behalf Of John Levine
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2019 1:48 PM
> To: voiceops at voiceops.org
> Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] SIP Credential Strength / Domestic Fraud
> 
> In article <20191213175459.GD1788 at tlaquepaque.localdomain> you write:
>> A crude analysis of wholesale termination decks for +1 641-741[1] 
>> reveals prices in the range of $0.019/min to $0.22/min, so yeah, termination arbitrage.
> 
>>> In article <CAEu0Vi0Z9ki+TYq-7AkSYGf+-4pNE-m_-jfjk+jy0vRAV4oeSA at mail.gmail.com> you write:
>>>> Arbitrage scam, that's still one of those local monopolies most likely.
>>> 
>>> Killduff Telephone has one switch with two prefixes so, yeah, termination arbitrage.
> 
> Does that mean that someone in Killduff is in on the scam, or do they do routing tricks so the calls don't actually go there?
> 
> R's,
> John
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