Anyone else dealt directly with Model Power?

[7j43k]

Taken directly from paperwork accompanying a shipment from Model Power, their phone number is 631-694-7022.

Ed

[tbdanny]

Or maybe he could start another thread about trash.

Or maybe I could:

1. Cancel the order with Model Power

2. Find a dealer who actually has inventory that matches their website and place an order (it ships on Monday)

3. Not let other people know about a possible fraud

[jwhitten]

The OP indicated that he was to fax the information to Model Power. The fax number for model power is the same as the message received.

I have never heard of anyone hijacking a telephone number, have you?

Actually I have. Do a google search on (“phone number hijacking”) and see what you get-- and those are just the simple ways. There are even better ways nowdays and it gets easier all the time-- especially if the hijacking takes place in a “PBX” (private telephone exchange) such as a company. Lots of companies don’t know, understand, or want to know about their telephone systems. So they plug it in, hire a guy to program their numbers and conference channels and that’s it. However, many (perhaps most) PBX systems these days are pretty powerful and have lots of interesting features that can be used to wreck havoc upon unsuspecting companies and then on people at-large by calling through these companies via their hacked / hijacked or compromised phone PBX systems… And that’s just the private companies. Anybody who’s got sufficient communications industry insider information and some “social engineering” skills could easily compromise a telephone company “switch” such as a DMS100 or a 5ESS or whatever the current switches are that are out there these days-- and those are just some of the common ones in the US– there’s a whole world of potentially compromizable switches and communications gear.

Frankly the only thing that really surprises me is that phone numbers aren’t regularly hacked MORE often. There’s nothing “magic” about them-- they’re just NAR’s (Numeric Access Registers) inside a big computer/switch thingy-- that’s it. Their security is as good as the mgmt and administrative policies that surround it.

[jwhitten]

3. Not let other people know about a possible fraud

WHAT !?!?! And miss all this FABULOUS nit-picking !?!?!?!

[:D]

[jwhitten]

One thing they could do would be to establish local dealerships for their foreign customers to purchase from.

Why are asterisks used instead of quotes?

Ed

For emphasis.

[blownout_cylinder]

There were the “Phone Phreaks” back in the 1970’s/80’s that started the trend toward the computer hackers of old----Kevin Mitnick(sp?) was a fine example of them at one point.

Look, at SOME point there are going to be criminals out there who will do stuff like this but let us not get PARANOID.

At the rate we’re going I won’t be surprised at people suggesting that weaselBay is some form of a front for a money laundring operation based in some part of the globe that has giant heroin mills[:-^]

[selector]

Gentlemen, this thread has gotten tangled and increasingly aside from the OP’s original interest.

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