About this unfound Blackjack phone and a phone number that is saved in Casey’s phone list. Phone number 800-9x7-5096 referred to as ‘Universal’ on Casey cell phone dump.
I wasn’t sure where to post this. It doesn’t fit the cell phone ping thread so…..
I Googled this number instead of doing a reverse lookup. This number is listed for AT&T accounting department and as far as I can tell when people call this number back they get a legitimate business. My question is why did Casey have this number listed in her phone as 'Universal'? Why was it not listed as AT&T if she had been calling them about her late cell phone bills?
I am not certain but this looks to me like this number is or was being used in some type of scam. Bill fraud, a way to get credit card info, a way to find out if a user has cell phone minuets that can be snatched by some one. Some type of boilerplate operation is my guess. It also might have something to do with someone working on the inside of AT&T accounting department hooking Casey up with a way to 'purchase' SIM cards.
Complaints from this website on this number
www.callercomplaints.com/SearchResult.aspx?Phone=800-947-5096
Blackjacks being purchased on someone else account
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/249/RipOff0249244.htm
One more site that seems to me says someone is using this number through spoofing software and that is why although the number may be legit in its self and some calls are from the phone company but others are not and it is being used a scamming business
http://800notes.com/Phone.aspx/1-800-947-5096/5
Some additional info:
Caller ID Spoofing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
and the history and some laws and pending laws on spoof calling.
http://www.calleridspoofing.info/
Now taking this information and combing it with this portion of the jailhouse call between Casey and Lee A.
“LEE: So this Black Jack where did you, you said that you reported it missing, give me the information so I can find this phone.
CASEY: I had it (TALKING TO SOMEONE OFF THE PHONE : yes sir, is he ok. Can you ask him to stay there couple of minutes, because we only have…ok thank you). Um Jose’s actually here. Um. (Expletive), ok the last time I know I had it for certain I was up at Universal.
LEE: For work, or for otherwise?
CASEY: I was in through the park talking to just a couple of mutual friends of….
LEE: So you were up there for fun or whatever?
CASEY: It wasn’t necessarily fun, but yes not through work at that moment…
LEE: I’ve got you, ok, I understand.
CASEY: I know I had it at Jay Blanchard Park, I don’t remember where the very last place is I had it.
LEE: Where did you get this phone from? Like how was it provided to you?
CASEY: Through the AT&T Store, god, what road? It’s the bottom left side of town kind of near where the mall and stuff is.”
In through the park = Universal =Casey fake job = an 800 number that is on Casey’s phone that is showing as a number for AT&T. Was a ‘blackjack’ SIM card ‘purchased’ through an inside person at the AT&T cell phone store bottom left down by the mall? I am just trying to make some sense of this.
Combine this with an 800-phone number that has reported connections of people using this number to dupe them into giving out person information and then selling that information.
Was this number stored in her phone to use through a software program to make spoofing calls? Was ‘blackjack’ a password that got ‘her in through Universal’ and she had a separate SIM card that she used for making these types of calls that was hooked to someone else’s billing account. Then she would just put her personal SIM card back in the same phone and there is no trace of any illegal activity on her phone. Unless LE could come up with what other person’s account she was using there is no way to find additional records. Blackjack could also mean the drug, she did mention ‘getting a blackjack’ in one of her Myspace, Facebook or a text message but she may have been referring to a drug at the time and not a phone and we all just accepted that as proof that she did at one time have 2 phones. The idea of 2 SIM cards, not 2 phones could work for drug dealing, escort work, credit fraud, anything for that matter.
A separate SIM card for all illegal type calls. As long as the SIM card was compatible to her Nokia phone that SIM card will now direct all billing and record of calls made at the time to another account. Her personal account would not show any of those calls at all.
Casey has a laptop, wireless or not and she accesses software, downloads spoofing onto her computer. Now Casey uses a USB cable to connect her cell phone to the laptop and pulls the info onto the SIM card [the one that is not connected to anything that has her name on it] to make any phone calls. The number that she now makes with this phone, while using that SIM card shows as coming from whatever number she has programmed into it. Hence it may appear as Casey is calling from AT&T. The 800 number shows up on the caller ID of the persons phone that she is calling. If the ‘target’ person decides to call back the number he/she gets a legitimate business and cannot trace the call to the scammer who is using it. Casey’s own phone records do not reflect these calls since Casey is using a SIM card that is in someone else’s name.
Could this same type of software be used to access an answering service? Casey uses the ‘other SIM’ to check voicemail or to make arrangements to pick up drugs, meet men for paid sex, give SS# or credit cards numbers to a buyer etc.
I am not an IT person. If my understanding of this is incorrect please feel free to let me know why. I am just throwing this out there.
This number is one that Casey called on 7/14. [I did not check to see if it was called on previous days.] 772-5x1-1500 lists as a file download access number.
If you google this number you get a website for Compact RINEX format down load which to the best of my ability it is some type of software that compresses or un-compresses data needed to use with GPS tracking and lets you move data from computer to phones. This one is way over my head. So WTH could this be all about?