GizmoPasswords, over at Blogspot.com seems to think so. He says he used to be a SunRocket user and has posted the Hacks to break into the Linksys SPA2102-R, ViaTalk’s AC-211, the AC-211-SR and other routers so that you don’t have to get a new voip router from your new broadband phone company. (This makes it cheaper and gives you the option of not having to sign a contract in most cases.)

One of his readers, Julian, doesn’t buy it, and I’m not real keen on the idea of a 2-3 day old company being for real either, but I’ll try to hold my tongue.

I emailed Bill Fogg, who is listed in the whois for Teleblend.com, but haven’t received an answer yet, so I’m still in the dark too.

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I was discussing the previous post with a friend, and he brought up an interesting point. What if this is just a really cool phishing project?

Since SunRocket closed their doors on Monday, the place has been deserted, right? what if someone hacked their servers and pulled their customer database? Or, what if an angry employee grabbed the database and sold it, or decided to use it themselves for a retirement plan?

If the email from “SunRocket” is a phishing expedition, it is a really good one. You have an email from a company going under, offering 2 alternative plans to their old customers. If you look at both plans, you see that one is $24.99 (Packet8) and the other plan is only $12.95 for the same thing (Teleblend). Which plan would you sign up for?

Now let’s do the math. If 1% of SunRocket’s 200,000 customers sign up for the Teleblend plan, and Teleblend.com is Phishing, then that gives Teleblend credit card numbers from 2,000 customers. If they get a 10% signup rate, then they get the credit card numbers from 20,000 SunRocket customers. If they charged each card $100.00, they would make a quick haul of between $200,000 and $2,000,000. Dang, I wish I was crooked and had thought of this….

I wonder if the FBI is looking into this? If any of you have any hard facts that this is indead a really good phishing expedition, then please contact the FBI’s Internet Crimes Division and file a complaint at: http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/. If it’s not, drop me a line so I’ll shut the heck up and leave honest voip companies alone.

Spiderman

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A VoIP company called Teleblend, that no one has ever heard of, has been contacting SunRocket customers today. I saw this first over at GigaOM where a user had posted a comment that they had an email from SunRocket that they had an option of going with Packet8 or Teleblend.

Since no one has ever heard of Teleblend, and their website, www.teleblend.com does an automatic redirect to www.myteleblend.net, that was just registered 2 days ago with Godaddy.com, I have a feeling that all is not right here. (more…)

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