nitzanPremium,VIP
join:2008-02-27
kudos:2 | Blah blah blah. The FBI this and that. Cry cry cry. I read the full report from the agent - he had *way* more than reasonable doubt to suspect ALL the equipment in the suite belongs to or involved Faulkner's illegal activities. This isn't a raid on an entire data center - their raided a specific suite in the data center!
Did Faulkner have a few legitimate customers renting colo space from him? unlikely - but possible. It is unfortunate if any of them got caught up with this - but I don't think the FBI was wrong in this case. We're talking about a network of individuals who's crimes range from scam to spam, to forging financial documents, to cheating other companies to the tune of millions of dollars. How much do you want to bet they are also responsible for millions of voice spam ("your car warranty is expiring") minutes? This isn't just some script kid with a server in his basement - this is a number of individuals who knowingly and with full intention routinely established service from other carriers and vendors to resell to their own customers - and routinely did not pay for such services. In my world that is theft - pure and simple.
The sad thing is - it took them going big and trying to defraud AT&T and Verizon for the FBI to actually do something about this. These jerks have been out there defrauding other companies for years until now.
The VoIP world is a little safer with guys like these out of the picture. |
