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JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel
01-07-2006, 04:14 AM
Suspect your girlfriend is cheating on you? Looking to spot a mole at your company? Thanks to an underground service on the web, you can get access to anyone's cell phone or land line call records.

Seem like a scam? Unfortunately, it's not. The FBI ordered a list from locatecell.com, and it worked! $160 and 3 hours later, the FBI had a call list log that matched one of their agents.

So that's the price of someone's privacy? Only $130? Sure is cheaper than a than hiring an investigator to find out if your girl / wife is cheating on you.

How do they obtain the records? One of the most common methods for obtaining cell phone records is "pretexting." Pretexting is when a data broker pretends to be a phone's owner and dupes the phone company into providing the information.

It is currently not illegal to pretext for phone records. However, in July the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission seeking an end to the sale of telephone records.



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brickcitybrother
01-07-2006, 04:33 AM
Yea ... I remember an article about them early last year. I find it hard to believe they got an information on an official 'FBI phone' but a private one used by a special agent - that seems logistically feasible.

The best way to protect yourself is to separate your 'personal' data from your 'financial' data. That way someone with knowledge of one cannot easily obtain or establish a right to obtain the other. This thwarts pre-texting is done properly.