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.

Spiderman

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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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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.

following the line of reasoning that says “SunRocket isn’t sending out emails, and if they did, would they pick a company that’s only 2 days old”, I’m thinking scam. Here’s a link to a post over at Blogspot from a person who also saw something wrong with this whole scenario too.

On that note, here is the whois information for

Teleblend.com
Registrant:
UnCommUm
5 Bragdon Lane
Kennebunk, Maine 04043
United States

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.PREXAR.COM
NS2.PREXAR.COM

Here is the Registrars information for:

myteleblend.net
Registrant:
Network Operations
520 E Zarragossa Street
Pensacola, Florida 32502
United States

Domain servers in listed order:
NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM


Note: This was added later in the day.
I just went to godaddy.com, since that was where this domain was purchased, and it was actually purchased by the guy who has Teleblend.com, so now it doesn’t look quite so sinister. also, if you look into the past, Prexar, the main company associated with this used to be a CLEC (Local Exchange Carrier). If you do a search for Prexar on google, you come up with old telecom stuff telated to Prexar’s sale to USA Telecom (United Systems Access Telecom). Google search of Prexar.

Registrant:
TeleBlend

Domain servers in listed order:
NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM


When I tried to pull the information for Prexar.com, which is a company in Maine that has the same address as that which is listed in Teleblend.com’s Whois info, this is all I get:

Domain Name: PREXAR.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.tucows.com
Referral URL: http://domainhelp.opensrs.net
Name Server: NS1.PREXAR.COM
Name Server: NS2.PREXAR.COM
Status: ok
Updated Date: 21-nov-2006
Creation Date: 20-dec-1999
Expiration Date: 20-dec-2007


Anyone have more information on this?

Teleblend.com – Myteleblend.net:
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