Message-ID: <20210828180328.CA75379B@telecom2018.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2021 18:03:28 +0000 (UTC)
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Miami Man Pleads Guilty in Lucrative Fraud Scheme involving
Cell Phones
PITTSBURGH - A resident of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty in federal
court to charges of conspiring to commit wire fraud and money
laundering, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced
today.
Samuel T. Johnson pleaded guilty to two counts before United States
District Judge W. Scott Hardy.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/miami-man-pleads-guilty-lucrative-fraud-scheme-involving-cell-phones
Message-ID: <B12A7B3D-0B89-405B-BB10-12984B3726F8@roscom.com>
Date: 25 Aug 2021 22:14:46 -0400
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: UK to Hang Up on Landline Phones in 2025
The traditional landline phone will be consigned to the rubbish bin by
2025, at least as far as telephone companies in the United Kingdom are
concerned.
The move comes as the telecommunications industry wants to no longer
have to maintain the cooper wires and switching gear required for
landline phones and also wants to be able to offer more robust
Internet services.
Telecommunication companies in Britain have told customers that they
won't need to get new phones or change their number, and that the
changes will largely take place behind the scenes. They did however
say that people might need to plug their phone into their Internet
router to keep using it and basic Internet service would be required
for the phone to work.
http://www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com/2021/08/uk-to-hang-up-on-landline-phones-in-2025/
Message-ID: <6A2F30FC-FD38-46DE-B10B-17B910C1FA99@roscom.com>
Date: 26 Aug 2021 10:14:29 -0400
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: FCC seeks $5M fine for robocalls telling Black people
that voting helps "the man"
Robocalls claimed mail-in voting is used to track down warrants,
collect unpaid debt.
By Jon Brodkin
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday proposed a $5.1
million fine against two right-wing political operatives accused of
making over 1,100 illegal robocalls. The calls were an attempt to
convince people not to vote.
The recorded messages sent before the November 2020 election "told
potential voters that if they voted by mail, their 'personal
information will be part of a public database that will be used by
police departments to track down old warrants and be used by credit
card companies to collect outstanding debts,'" the FCC said. Those
messages were apparently targeted at Black voters and told them,
"don't be finessed into giving your private information to the man."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/fcc-seeks-5m-fine-for-robocalls-telling-black-people-that-voting-helps-the-man/
Message-ID: <7EC20F1F-249E-44CD-82C7-9FBE301CD87D@roscom.com>
Date: 28 Aug 2021 01:22:37 -0400
From: "Monty Solomon" <monty@roscom.com>
Subject: Here's How I Tracked Down the People Selling My Data, Then
Stopped Them
By Shubham Agarwal
Keeping your data private online often feels like walking through a
minefield. One wrong step and BOOM! -- heaps of your personal
information are suddenly in the wrong hands. For this reason, most of
us go the extra mile to ensure our data doesn't get compromised. We
dial up privacy settings to the max, block web trackers, and maybe
even browse in incognito mode. But I hate to break it to you: You've
likely blown up all of that minefield a while ago.
The harsh truth is that there's a good chance that shady "data
brokers" are already trading your identity for pennies on the web,
even if you've been super-careful online in the past, like me. I
consider myself more privacy-minded than most, but despite all my
years of treading softly on the web and locking down my data beneath
layers of authentication, I recently discovered that many of my
personal details were being collected and traded.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/how-to-stop-data-brokers/
