http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/03/28/1552713/miami-dade-inmates-collect-call.html By David Ovalle MiamiHerald.com 03.29.10 Hacking their way into home fax lines, inmates in Miami-Dade jails are racking up tens of thousands of dollars in collect calls billed to unsuspecting citizens. Recent victims include a South Florida federal judge, a Miami Herald columnist and the county architect who helped design a Miami-Dade jail. Corrections officials say the inmates, with help from accomplices on the outside, have figured out how to forward collect calls through AT&T from a victim's fax line to the inmates' girlfriends, pals or relatives -- who accept the calls but don't have to foot the bill. Alabama-based Global Tel*Link, which operates jail collect- and prepaid-call systems nationwide, has reimbursed customers nearly $200,000 for bogus calls over the past two years, almost all in Miami-Dade. The Miami-Dade Corrections department and GTL say they can do little to stop the scam because the call forwarding is done through AT&T. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Register now for HITBSecConf2010 - Dubai, the premier deep-knowledge network security event in the GCC, featuring keynote speakers John Viega and Matt Watchinski! http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2010dxb/Received on Tue Mar 30 2010 - 23:01:15 PDT
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