Dismantling an International Fraud Ring in Brazil

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Dismantling
an
International Fraud Ring in Brazil
cliff jordan
oct 2003
Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA) Conference
San Diego, California
Purpose of Discussion
1. Share our lessons learned from
experience with International Fraud
Ring in Brazil
2. Discuss impact of Sep 11th on
Telephone Fraud in Brazil
Our Industry Environment
Anatel Regulations for
Fixed Line Local and LD Operators
1.
Not allowed to discriminate against customers based on credit
history or ability to pay for basic service.
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Not allowed to block service for Bad Debt until after 2
warnings and 30 days have passed from due date of invoice.
3.
Basic Customers are NOT Subscribed to an LD Operator.
They choose the LD Operator at the time of dialing the LD
call.
For example:
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call via Embratel
0021-1-914-827-9086
0023-1-240-337-5907
call via Intelig
Our History
Jun 1999 – Sep 2000
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Jun 1999 – PIC Code dialing started.
Jan 2000 – Billing customers started.
Jul 2000 – First Fraud Reports
Aug 2000 – Blocking of International calls begins
Sep 2000 – Fraud Control Department organized
1 Manager + 1 Analyst + 1 Developer = NEED MORE HELP FAST!!
 Sep 20, 2000 – First Police Action for Fraud
Typical Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 1 – Brazil Fraudster calls Saudi Fraudster and sets up Long Duration call
Step 2 – Saudi Fraudster with client tells Brazil Fraudster where his client
wants to call (eg. friend in India)
Typical Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 3 – Brazil Fraudster makes second call (eg. India)
Step 4 – Brazil Fraudster conferences the two calls together
Step 5 – Saudi client talks to friend in India
Typical Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 6 – Brazil Fraudster and Saudi Fraudster settle the money between them
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Investigated Fraud Systems and purchased Sheriff
a) CDR Based
b) Near Realtime
c) Greater Influence on Customized Development
d) Neural Network Engine
e) Thresholds
f) Case Manager
To be installed in Feb 2001. Until then.....
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We were blocking MANIACS!
a) Long Duration calls to Hot Countries over 2 hours
b) Accumulated duration to Hot Countries of 5 hours + per day
Hot Countries = Mideast and some LatAm Countries
c) No pre-checking of Customer Info, Payment Info
d) Used above criteria and GUT Feelings!
e) 98% Accuracy
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We made a COUPLE of little mistakes...
a) Blocked a TV Network for calls related to international
news gathering
b) Blocked an Isreali Hospital
Result?.....
We got executive direction to validate customer first!
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We Then Recognized...
1. Sheriff would not be agressive enough for this fraud.
2. We needed a system that could do the following:
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Automatically Blacklist B number after Long Duration call
Automatically Blacklist A number after Long Duration call
Stop the Long Duration call in progress
3. We heard of a system that could meet these needs...
For us it was ECTEL’s FraudView system – discussions began
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Progress...
1. Hired 5 more analysts and 3 supervisors and trained them!
2. Installed Sheriff in February 2001
Result? ..... Fraud amount dropped!
3. Began sharing of information with our competitor Intelig
4. Decided to attempt a second police action in March in Rio
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Second Police Action, Rio – March 9th, 2001
Please meet:
Ismael – from Palestine
Syed – from Bangladesh
New Fraud Technology...
DTMF boxes
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DTMF Box Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 1 – Saudi Fraudster calls DTMF box in Brazil which triggers first
Long Duration call from Brazil to Saudi.
DTMF Box Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 2 – Saudi Fraudster sends via DTMF a code and destination phone
number (eg. India) across Long Duration call
DTMF Box Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 3 – Box automatically opens second line, dials destination (eg. India),
and conferences the two calls
Step 4 – When call to India completes, India disconnects call
DTMF Box Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 5 – Box is now ready to accept another DTMF command
DTMF Box Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 5 – Box is now ready to accept another DTMF command
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Second Police Action, Rio – March 9th, 2001
Please meet:
Ismael – from Palestine
Syed – from Bangladesh
New Fraud Technology...
DTMF boxes
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Installed Pilot Version of FraudView – March 12th, 2001
Discovered:
1. We could now see the DTMF signals sent by Fraudsters
2. We could automatically block when DTMF patterns seen
3. Block = Insert SILENCE on the line
We configured FraudView to automatically:
1. Block when detection of reverse direction DTMF signals sent
by Fraudsters
2. Blacklist and Block on Long Duration calls to Hot Countries
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Began using both Sheriff and Pilot Version of FraudView
Did another police action in May, again in Rio
Signed contract for ECTEL FraudView
De-installed Pilot Version of FraudView as part of
installation of Production FraudView
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May 30th, 2001
Rio de Janeiro
Names Unknown – 4 Brazilians
Meet:
Fraudsters were trained and
brought in from
Foz de
Iguaçu.
Were paid a
little over
minimum
Claimed
their wage
boss was
Arab
from Foz
de
Iguaçu.
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Hired 12 new fraud analysts and 7 support staff
FML trained new analysts and support staff
Installation of Production FraudView complete
It now became very difficult for the Arab International
Fraud Ring to complete the Long Duration leg!
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A DESPERATE Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 1 – Try to setup Long Duration call
a. Hacked into PABX in Greece and reoriginated to Saudi – caught via DTMF!
A DESPERATE Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 1 – Try to setup Long Duration call
a. Hacked into PABX in Japan and reoriginated to Saudi – caught via DTMF!
A DESPERATE Fraud Scenario with Arab International Fraud Ring
Step 1 – Try to setup Long Duration call
a. Hacked into PABX in Texas, US and reoriginated to Saudi – caught via DTMF!
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September 11, 2001 – Hot Country traffic at average levels
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September 11, 2001
An event that begs a whole set of questions...
1.
Did any of the communications of the Sep 11th terrorist attack
pass through the Embratel network as part of the fraud that we
had been fighting?
2.
Could it be that terrorists are frauding our network like the
call-sellers, Drug dealers, and the Arms dealers?
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Is al Qaeda or any other terrorist group funded by this Arab
International Fraud Ring?
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Does the Arab International Fraud Ring have any connections
or is affiliated with al Qaeda or any other terrorist group?
5.
What will be the impacts on our industry as a result of the new
realities of terrorism?
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September 11, 2001
Stay tuned.... Some answers to these and other like questions
are coming in the next the few slides...
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October 2001
We increased the complexity of the filters and were able to
quickly find the fraudsters as soon as they made their first
call.
The fraud amounts dropped even further in October.
The month the dominos began to fall for the Arab International
Fraud Ring in Brazil....
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October 5th, 2001
Meet:
Salvador, Bahia (northeast Brazil)
Roberto Barreto de Matos, 23 anos
Telephone Technician
Contracted by unknown Arab from Foz de
Iguaçu,
Brazil
to setup
and maintain
a
Falsified
Identification
Documents
to
clandestine
switch. lines. Used computer
adquire 16 telephone
and
Wasmodems.
paid R$3000 monthly to maintain the
system
Suspicious neighbors notified the
police which led to
the search
warrent and subsequent arrest.
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October 5th, 2001
Meet:
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Foz de Iguaçu, Cascavel and surrounding area
José de Fatima Carnietto – innocent victim of stolen ID
Fraudsters stole his ID.
Rented an apt in Cascavel (near Foz de Iguaçu)
in
Jun 01.
There
lived 4 men between 20 and 26
years
old. several telephone lines.
Adquired
Completed calls Saudi
to: Arabia, Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Italy, USA,
Canada, Sudan, and Egypt
Calls made between June 26 and Aug 23.
Abandoned
apt. apartment on Oct and phone bills,
Owner entered
and called
police.
We
found over
50 accounts with name Fatima
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October 10th, 2001
Meet:
Maringá, near Foz de Iguaçu
Valdir Vitalino
Alex Honorato da Silva
Ederaldo Felix dos Santos
Daniel Trabanca
Idiane Aparecida Wolff
José Antonio de Sá
Clipped onto at least 10 seperate accounts
in Maringá between
July and August.
Believed to have run at least 6 clandestine
switches in the area of Maringá.
Police found passport of Ederaldo with US Visa
Bank
transactions with fraudsters in Saudi
application.
done through
Bank West Union in Paraguay in
name of
Saudi
Arabia, Egypt,
Africa, and
Maria
Lúcia
Ferreira
Josefi.
Completed
calls
to:
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Visit to Foz de Iguaçu
Border town between Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay
Location of largest waterfalls in Western Hemisphere
Strong Arab community (over 20,000 residents)
Headquarters for Arab International Fraud Ring in Brazil
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Visit to Foz de Iguaçu
Bin Laden visted Foz along with other South
American towns in this region between 1995 and
1999.
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October 17th, 2001
Curitiba, Brazil
Roberto Alli Chinais – Lebanon, Leader of Group
Deivis Helen Calamucci - Lebanon
Mohamed Mahmoud El Husseini - Kuweit
Hachem Mahmoud Husseini - Kuweit
Meet:
Ran clandestine switches in Curitiba
in
June 2000
and Feb 2001
Federal Police claim Roberto Alli Chinais
is another
member of the Arab Mafia in
Brazil.
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October 18th, 2001
Foz de Iguaçu, Brazil
Muhamed Hassan Atwi - Lebanon
Paulo César Caramorí - Brasilian
Names Unknown – 3 Brazilians
Meet:
Were arrested for running clandestine switches
in Foz de Iguaçu,
within 1st day of fraud.
Embratel and Intelig acted together and sent Federal
Federal
secured search warrents within 2
Police twoPolice
addresses.
hours and sent agents to both addresses.
At one address, they found the 1 Arab and 1 Brazilian
and
them. they found nothing but telephone
At arrested
other address
wires. Neighbors said that 3 occupants had just fled
from the apartment with telephone
equipment in
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October 19th, 2001
Meet:
Brasilia, Brazil
unknown
Federal Police found a PABX setup as a
clandestine switch in an apartment in
Brasilia.
Found also with equipment a package of
cocaine.
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October 24th, 2001
Meet:
Mato Grosso, Brazil
Ghassan Jamil Al Kayal - Lebanon
Jamil Alkayal – Lebanon
Rubens Nunes de Barros - Brasilian
Were arrested Oct 10th for suspicion of
communications with
terrorist groups.
Police found 2 clandestine switches in
Mato Grosso
believed to be run by these
men.
Police found 8 clandestine switches in
Cuiabá believed to
be run by
these
men.
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November 22nd, 2001
Foz de Iguaçu, Brazil
Meet:
Ivan Balic - Croatia
Darko Kuvic – Croatia
Thomas Slov - Croatia
Relationship
with Arab
Mafia
?
Were arrested within one day of the start of
the fraud.
Were
routing calls through a calling card
service in the US to Kuweit and Saudi Arabia.
No information on who hired
them.
Claimed they were
tourists.
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Interesting Relationships Found by Police
Assad Ahmad Barakat
Accused of imposing monthly tax to Arab owned stores
in Ciudade del Este, Paraguay to fund Hezbollah
Accused of transfering $50 Million USD to Hezbollah
Pro-Terrorist Propaganda and training material found in raid
of his residence in Ciudade del Este, Paraguay in December
2001. Barakat fled to Brazil.
Owns electronics
store in
Ciudade del Este,
Paraguay
Afif Abib Eid
Ran clandestine
switches in Maringá,
Brazil
Ederaldo Felix dos Santos
Owns videogame
store in
Ciudade del Este,
Paraguay
Muhamed Hassan Atwi
Ran clandestine
switches in Foz de
Iguaçu, Brazil
Paulo César Caramouri
Interesting Relationships Found by Police
Assad Ahmad Barakat
Accused of imposing monthly tax to Arab owned stores
in Ciudade del Este, Paraguay to fund Hezbollah
Accused of transfering $50 Million USD to Hezbollah
Pro-Terrorist Propaganda and training material found in raid
of his residence in Ciudade del Este, Paraguay in December
2001. Barakat fled to Brazil.
Arrested in Foz de Iguaçu, Brazil on charges of terrorism in June of 2002. Captured
while exiting his electronics store. Sent to maximum security prison in Brasilia.
Nov 2002, Sobhi Mahmoud Fayad, a worker for Barakat was arrested in Ciudad del
Este on suspicion of raising funds for Hezbollah. Detained after police saw him writing
down license-plate numbers outside a U.S.-sponsored disaster-management meeting.
May 2003, Hassan Abdallah Dayoub, married to Barakat´s first cousin was arrested in
the airport at Asuncion, Paraguay while trying to smuggle 5 pounds of cocaine on a trip
to Syria.
Owns electronics
store in
Ciudade del Este,
Paraguay
Afif Abib Eid
Owns videogame
store in
Ciudade del Este,
Paraguay
Muhamed Hassan Atwi
Oct 2001 – Dec 2001
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December, 2001
The month of December appeared very quiet from the Arab International
Fraud Ring!
Did we win the fraud war?
Did they decide to no longer commit telephone
fraud?
Why do we have an upward
trend then in December?
The fraud moved to .....
CELLULAR!
All Brasil’s Intl Cellular traffic goes through Embratel and
Intelig (competitor).
This created a business opportunity for Embratel to market fraud
service...
2002 - 2003
 Other related frauds began in 2002 that are related to this
International Arab Fraud Ring:
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Clandestine Switches providing exclusive VIP cellular
service for prison inmates, specifically to brasilian
mafia leaders.
The switches were setup by people trained by the Arab
Fraud Ring.
Recordings done by the Federal Police of these cellular
calls reveal how drugs, arms, and prostitution are
trafficked, and how the money is laundered and
transferred via banks in Paraguay.
Fernandinho Beira-Mar, largest supplier of drugs to Rio
continues his operations while in prison getting drugs
from FARC in Columbia and buying and selling of arms
coming in from the tri-border area (Foz de Iguaçu).
Thousands of Russian made AK-47s and millions of
bullets and attempts at buying Stinger Missiles.
Fernandinho is recorded ordering his contact on the
outside to contact the “Lebonese Terrorists in Foz de
Iguaçu” to learn how to put together a Clandestine
Switch.
2003
 Some key regulations for Cellular companies changed in 2003
in Brasil:
1. All cellular customers can now pick their long distance
carrier with each call (casual calling).
a) This shifted the responsibility of long distance
fraud to the long distance carriers.
2. All cellular companies can now offer long distance
service with their own pic-code
a) This means they are responsible for the fraud that
happens with their pic-code
 Net result for Embratel:
As the dominant carrier, we lost some traffic to competition
in 2003. However, we still have some of the smaller companies
with their own long distance pic-code requesting our realtime
fraud service in addition to transport of their calls.
Recent Examples of Fraud Traffic
from a cellco using our network...
1.
Intl Destination Dur (min)
Date / Time
Origen-Brasil
99.87
17-10-03 09:48:57 2799820666 00xx96638354362B
DTMF = >001592431881207<01592431881207*>999<999<99999999>99999999
>9999990015999<9999990015999>0015999<0015999<01592431587803
>999<99999
Comment: This is a call from a cell phone (part of a clandestine switch) in Brasil to Saudi
Arabia. The destination sent reverse DTMF to open up other lines to call via Telefonica
(0015) to Pakistan (92431881207) and (9243158780).
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Intl Destination Dur (min)
Date / Time
Origen-Brasil
17-10-03 18:26:41 1199953229 00xx9616490780C0 497.95
DTMF = >003149413142539<014941142599<01129420841>003161296420841
>00152511133568<0152511158<999>999>999<999<0215949425792#
<0155949425792
Comment: This is a call from a cell phone (part of a clandestine switch) in Brasil to
Lebanon. The destination sent reverse DTMF to open up other lines to call via Telemar
(0031) to Germany (49413142539, 4941142599) and Australia (61296420841). Then calls
were routed through Embratel to French Guiana (5949425792).
Recent Examples of Fraud Traffic
from a cellco using our network...
3.
Date / Time
Origen-Brasil
20-10-03 10:20:49 1196000909
Intl Destination Dur (min)
00xx48693269071 88.83
DTMF = <021842407408#>002184240674038#<**>***>002184350848013#
<02184350848013#>002184350848013#<02184350848013#>***
<***>111111<111111<0
Comment: This is a call from a cell phone (part of a clandestine switch) in Brasil to Poland.
The destination sent reverse DTMF to open up other lines to call via Embratel (0021) to
Vietnam (84350848013).
• The losses for this Cellco in August of 2003 for NOT using our
realtime fraud service are between 3 and 4 Million Reais
(1.0 – 1.4 Million dollars).
Summary of Lessons Learned For Embratel
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One secret to success in stopping fraud is to have good equipment
(systems) and well trained analysts. (6 month ROI or less is entirely
possible)
Realtime Detection (SS7 monitoring), DTMF detection, and Realtime
Blocking, proved INVALUABLE in detection and halting of this
Call-Sell fraud.
We knew that associated with telephone fraud was drug trafficking,
arms dealing, but now also we understand that it is also associated with
terrorism. KNOW YOUR CUSTOMERS!
Working cooperatively with the law enforcement can be beneficial to
both parties.
You may win a battle and secure a product/service from fraud, but the
war still goes on as the fraudster moves to another weakness in your
network.
Sharing of fraud data and working cooperatively with your
competitor truly helps both mutually and helps clean up the industry.
Interesting Reading on the Internet linking
TERRORISM with telephone fraud:
English
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/americas/11/07/inv.terror.south/
http://www.meib.org/articles/0201_l2.htm
Portuguese
http://epoca.globo.com/edic/20011022/especial1a.htm
http://oglobo.globo.com/especiais/terror/1721902.htm
http://www.terra.com.br/istoe/1675/internacional/ 1675_triplice_encrenca2.htm
Italian
http://www.panorama.it/mondo/americhe/articolo/ix1-A020001020446/idpag1-1
Also other articles documenting individual cases are available.
Email request to: cliff@embratel.com.br
clifford m. jordan
manager - fraud control and prevention
Embratel
cliff@embratel.com.br
cliff.jordan@mci.com
55-21-2519-2032
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