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• Phreaking is a multi-billion dollar international fraud by organised crime with links to terrorists - Al Qaeda and the Mumbai bombers - and you’ll be an unwitting accomplice in this fraud.

• Phreakers perpetrate this crime by operating their own telcos and when they strike they’ll use your PABX in their network of phreaked PABXs to carry their illegal phone traffic - and you’ll have to pay for it.

• Phreakers could be “grooming” your PABX right now in preparation for them commissioning it into service whenever they need it to route their illegal call traffic through it - and you won’t even know it.

• Phone fraud is FOUR times bigger than credit card fraud globally.

• The UK is one of the world’s Top 5 countries to be targeted by phreakers.

• Your PABX is one of the most vital assets of your business - and without installed security, its most vulnerable.

• If your PABX is attacked, your phone bill could be up to 20 times higher than normal - and often even more than this - but you won’t know until your phone bill arrives.

• The resident security in your PABX and voicemail, including all your passwords, can be breached by phreakers in milliseconds.

• Once phreakers have access to your PABX, they automatically avoid all your network and internet security and immediately have backdoor access to your PC and data networks.

• Your telco carrier and/or your airtime provider will expect you to pay the bill phreakers make via your PABX which at the very worst and if it’s high enough, could bankrupt your business. Passwords, alerts and regular audits of your PABX will not protect you on any level from phreakers.

• Most phreaking attacks occur after hours or at the weekend when detection is least likely.

• If conventional weapons are used against phreakers, you’ll lose significant functionality of your PABX because the only way to contain them will be to shut down ALL outbound calling access and your voicemail - but this will still not prevent your PABX’s passwords from being breached.

• Control Phreak is the ONLY PABX firewall to provide automatic protection against phreakers - all day, every day - leaving you with access to ALL the features of your PABX and voicemail.

• Control Phreak is the ONLY PABX firewall which can detect and kill diverted calls - the preferred route of phreakers.

Phreaking is a slang term coined to describe the activity of a subculture of people who study, experiment with or explore telecommunication system, such as equipment and systems connected to public telephone networks. As telephone networks have become computerised, phreaking has become closely linked to computer hacking.
PABX is an automatic telephone switching system which is probably the system you are using in your business.

In one case study, BCL, Surrey UK were targeted by PBX Fraud in July 2009.  They were billed £10,817 for calls.  Their usual monthly bill was £500)

For more information on how Abzorb and Control Phreak can help protect you, please contact our expert Justin Russell, on 07554 115522.

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Tel: 01484 405300. Fax: 01484 405301
Email: justin.russell@abzorb.co.uk