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Tuscany Industries now ‘Alpha Service’

Remember the Tuscany Industries car warranty telephone scam I’ve been following? They’ve now calling from a CallerID claiming to be Alpha Service with the number 702-520-1274, and leaving the toll-free number 877-700-5880. Once again, the pitch is to “extend your car’s warranty.” An MT.Net reader claims these calls originate from Great Atlantic Warranty of South Florida. Wouldn’t surprise me.

If you get calls from these clowns, please report your call at 800notes.com under the appropriate number. And, please, don’t reward these crooks with your money!

Phone phisher pileup

The “Tuscany Industries” group (rumored to be Great Atlantic Warranty) isn’t the only one who is dialing for dollars. For the past few nights, we’ve received calls with CallerID info of 206-415-9148. A look at the ever useful 800notes.com shows that calls claiming to be from this number are designed strictly to leave messages on answering machines. Visitors to 800notes.com note that if the call is answered by anything other than an answering machine, the caller hangs up.

The message tells the recipient (or rather the recipient’s answering machine) that they’ve won two free airline tickets and to call 800-514-1363 with a reference number.
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Tuscany Industries phishers persist, switch numbers

Despite being hung up on Friday, another Tuscany Industries (or Upgrade Now) car-warranty-expiring phishing call just came in, this time from 208-839-2686. This number, according to Google, is the mobile phone number of a man in White Bird, Indiana – an unlikely phisher. Falsifying their CallerID. Geniuses, real geniuses.

Since you clowns are most likely are reading this, let me tell you your days are numbered. You had a good gig while it lasted but I’m on to you. You’ve pissed me off and I will find you and I will turn the whole state and federal law enforcement teams on to you if that’s what it takes.

Roy Cooper’s office and I will have a conversation about this today. Count on it.

More Phishiness

I had a call come in from “Tuscany Industries” this morning, number 702-520-1117. I answered and decided to play their little game. A recorded female voice warned about my car’s warranty expiring. If I was not interested in renewing it, she said, press 2, otherwise press 1.

I pressed 1 and their phone switch said “transferring to the operator.”
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Disruptive Weekend

I spent the weekend setting up my diabolical scheme to set up a network for my neighborhood. The HomePlug tests worked fine, as I reported earlier, though it didn’t reach the corner of the neighborhood I needed initially.

That left 802.11g to cover the gaps. I had a new, in-the-box Linksys WRT54G which I bought for the purpose of hacking. It was perched on the top bookshelf near a window on the front of our house. I installed a separate network card in my firewall and assigned a fresh DHCP range to any hosts appearing on that network. To keep the spammers out, I blocked outgoing port 25.

I didn’t get any hits on the access point all weekend, so I spent some time last night gleefully voiding the warranty on the Linksys. That’s right: months after Shane gave his talk on putting Linux on the Linksys, I finally got around to doing it, loading it up OpenWRT. To my surprise, the process was dirt-simple. OpenWRT’s default configuration provides you with a simple NAT firewall and dns redirection, so you can flash it and immediately resume using your access point as an access point. Even without the built-in access point hardware, running Linux on the box is useful in itself. It’s fast and very expandable. I can think of many cool things to do with it.

I hope to add a capture page when people first log into the access point, but for now its up and running. The first step to world domination!

We Got It!!!!!1!111!!!!

We did it! We got our new home! The call came in about a half hour ago! It’s ours!

Our final offer increased to $100 over asking price, but we left in the closing costs (and warranty). The ball was then in their court. We were told to expect a call between 5 and 7 tonight, but by 8:30, we were starting to get doubts. Until the phone rang, that is!

So, barring any meteor strikes between now and then, we’ll be moving into 8321 Hobhouse Circle after June 16th. Woohoo!
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