Sources have reported that Britain is in the grip of a high tech crime wave and one of the latest targets is one of our closest friends, the mobile phone.
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Experts have discovered a security floor in some of the most popular Bluetooth enable phones. It allows others to hack into a handset and take control of it. Our hustlers are going to demonstrate for our hidden cameras just how vulnerable your phone can be to a silent attack. This is the Bluetooth scam.
Adam Laurie: The problem with some Bluetooth phones is you can make a first connection to the phone and finally take over the phone read the contents out, so are the phonebook, SMS messages and even if she make a call from it.
So how does the Bluetooth hack work? Our hustlers are going to demonstrate it here. Just for the phones, have their Bluetooth turned on. Alex uses his mobile pocket pc, because of a security floor on Jessie’s phone he is able to locate the Bluetooth signal. Hack directly into the handset and take control of it. Now, he can make a call from Jessie’s phone to Paul’s phone. This technique is known as blue jacking.
Interviewee 1: The Bluetooth hustle works by using the Bluetooth feature on mobile phones. It is very modern, very useful, very easy piece of technology. They can connect to your phone without you knowing it. Your phone will not even show that is connected to something.
Then I am ready to test it on the public. Alex has set his pocket computer to search for Bluetooth signals. Now he has pinpoint it to the mob with an enable handset and he can go for the hack. Now he is making a call using the marks phone but where is the actual scam here? It is in the number that Alex is calling from the marks phone. Our hustlers have set of their own premium rate line where calls are charged at 1.50 pound a minute. So this guy is having their money taken from his pocket by this totally oblivious and if the marked does not realize his phone is calling the hustlers premium line doing Manchester and he will lose 75 pounds in call charges. So if Alex spend some time here, he can really take home the bacon. In an hour, he manages to target 20 phones with an average call time with 15 minutes making a grand total of 500 pounds. Our hustlers have proved for those with the technology and the know how this is a really money spinning scam.
Interviewee 2: The simplest and best way to protect yourself against this scam is just simply keep your Bluetooth turned off unless you are actually using it.
Interviewee 3: If you do not switch off the Bluetooth feature in your phone when you are not using it, you are endangered of somebody finding a way in.
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