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Volume 28 : Issue 142 : "text" Format
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eCrime Researchers Summit CFP
Re: FTC builds case against telemarketers
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Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 23:49:55 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: eCrime Researchers Summit CFP
Message-ID: <p0624081dc63e73334283@[10.0.1.4]>
The fourth annual APWG eCrime Researchers Summit will be hosted in
October 2009, in Tacoma, WA.
Original papers on all aspects of electronic crime are solicited for
submission to eCrime '09. Topics of relevance include but are not
limited to:
* Phishing, rogue-AV, pharming, click-fraud, crimeware, extortion
and emerging attacks.
* Technical, legal, political, social and psychological aspects of
fraud and fraud prevention.
* Malware, botnets, ecriminal/phishing gangs and collaboration, or
money laundering.
* Techniques to assess the risks and yields of attacks and the
success rates of countermeasures.
* Delivery techniques, including spam, voice mail and rank
manipulation; and countermeasures.
* Spoofing of different types, and applications to fraud.
* Techniques to avoid detection, tracking and takedown; and ways to
block such techniques.
* Honeypot design, data mining, and forensic aspects of fraud prevention.
* Design and evaluation of user interfaces in the context of fraud
and network security.
* Best practices related to digital forensics tools and techniques,
investigative procedures, and evidence acquisition, handling and
preservation.
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http://www.ecrimeresearch.org/2009/cfp.html
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Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 06:55:35 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
To: redacted@invalid.telecom.csail.mit.edu
Subject: Re: FTC builds case against telemarketers
Message-ID: <gvar17$jtq$1@news.albasani.net>
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>The following article from the Phila Inqr describes some outrageous
>stuff pulled by telemarketers in violation of multiple laws and how
>people fought back. This includes spoofing the caller ID.
>See: http://www.philly.com/philly/business/personal_finance/45231832.html
>Would anyone know if Call Trace (1157) works when a telemarketer
>calls? That is, does Call Trace send the real ANI or the caller-ID to
>the Call Trace Bureau.
Unfortunately, ANI doesn't make it to your switch.
>Unfortunately, the Call Trace Bureau appears to only respond to
>repeated threatening calls, not mere sales calls and now has a high
>fee per use.
In my area, they'll capture the data, but the telephone subscriber must
file a police report before they'll release it.
>They seem to really discourage people from using it.
Yeah. Once upon a time, the Annoyance Call Bureau would go after
companies that set up fax machines to keep retrying your number... which
they had entered incorrectly.
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