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Date: Mon Jan 12 2009 - 01:10:56 CST

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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/first-pretextin.html

By Kim Zetter
Threat Level
Wired.com
January 09, 2009

Prosecutors have filed "pretexting" charges in the first cases brought
under a federal law passed in 2006 in the wake of the Hewlett-Packard
spying scandal.

Pretexting is a method in which a perpetrator poses as a phone-company
customer, or someone else, in order to request records of the customer's
phone calls.

Authorities in Ohio filed an indictment last month against 28-year-old
Vaden Anderson alleging that the defendant used pretexting to obtain
confidential phone records from Sprint/Nextel. According to the
indictment, Anderson served the phone company with a fake U.S. District
Court civil subpoena to obtain the records.

If convicted, Anderson faces a maximum prison sentence of 10 years and a
$250,000 fine.

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