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VoIP Toll Fraud: How It Happens and How to Stop It

IP authentication, spend limits, destination blocks and alerting.

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SIPTrunkHub Network Team
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Toll fraud usually starts on a Friday night: someone guesses an extension password or finds an open SIP port, then pumps premium international calls through your account until Monday. This article explains how these attacks work and the five controls that stop almost all of them.

How toll fraud happens

IP authentication and firewalls

Spend limits and channel caps

Destination blocks

Alerting and monitoring

Summary

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