http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/first-pretextin.html By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com January 09, 2009 Prosecutors have filed "pretexting" charges in the first cases brought under a federal law passed in 2006 in the wake of the Hewlett-Packard spying scandal. Pretexting is a method in which a perpetrator poses as a phone-company customer, or someone else, in order to request records of the customer's phone calls. Authorities in Ohio filed an indictment last month against 28-year-old Vaden Anderson alleging that the defendant used pretexting to obtain confidential phone records from Sprint/Nextel. According to the indictment, Anderson served the phone company with a fake U.S. District Court civil subpoena to obtain the records. If convicted, Anderson faces a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a $250,000 fine. [...] _______________________________________________ Please help InfoSecNews.org with a donation! http://www.infosecnews.org/donate.htmlReceived on Sun Jan 11 2009 - 23:10:56 PST
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