Brokers of Phone Records Targeted
Aamer Madhani, Liam Ford, and John Chase write in The Chicago Tribune:
News that rogue Internet operators are selling private cell phone records for a fee has spurred an avalanche of federal legislation to criminalize the business as well as promises from law enforcement officials to investigate how these brokers get their hands on phone logs.
On Friday, Illinois Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan sued a Florida-based company, 1st Source, charging it was using illegal means to access cell phone and land-line records.
The complaint alleges that agents for 1st Source, which operates www.locatecell.com, misrepresented themselves to telecommunications companies to obtain phone records by posing as the customers or employees of the cell phone company and then selling the records online. The suit also contends that 1st Source agents hacked into customers' online accounts to get the phone logs.
posted by Fergie @ 1/23/2006 12:50:00 PM
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