{"id":2481,"date":"2018-11-07T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T11:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/blog\/fraud-alert-depreciated-voip-phones\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T10:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:55:17","slug":"fraud-alert-depreciated-voip-phones","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/en\/blog\/fraud-alert-depreciated-voip-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"FRAUD alert : depreciated VOIP phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Degraded VOIP phones can cause a very serious data breach. In fact, your old VOIP phones are extremely useful to fraudsters looking to take a bunch of money from your company.<\/p>\n<h2>First of all just what information can be like in a VOIP phone:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lists of your company&#8217;s contacts<\/li>\n<li>Recorded voice mails<\/li>\n<li>Call &#8211; logs. either call history, who called and who called you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But one of the most troubling things left in a depreciated VOIP phone is its NUMBER. Or its old boss.<br \/>\nBy this I mean that your old VOIP phone was recognized by your business associates and continues to be recognized by your business associates.<br \/>\nNot only that one sees your number on the screen but nowadays there are numerous intelligent systems that instantly recognize that it is you who is calling.<\/p>\n<h2>The security of a VOIP device:<\/h2>\n<p>There is almost none: A written-off VOIP phone from someone else you can just plug in like that and there is no password on it like there is on a computer or cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>So if you hand over your depreciated VOIP phones for recycling &#8211; and you don&#8217;t have them destroyed &#8211; then anyone can impersonate you.<br \/>\nSo one can just call and say they are calling on your behalf. This is giant practical for bottle pullers and fraudsters.<\/p>\n<h2>Advice from IT Recycling regarding old VOIP devices:<\/h2>\n<p>I think old VOIP phones should really be destroyed. IT Recycling has now included the destruction of VOIP phones in its price list.<br \/>\nThere is actually no market for old VOIP phones, which is why &#8211; at least with us &#8211; the old VOIP phones will find their Waterloo in our shredder.<br \/>\nAs far as I know, IT Recycling is the only certified data shredder that has the destruction of VOIP phones standard in its price list. So apparently this subject is not at all well known yet.<br \/>\nWe can destroy VOIP devices both on site &#8211; and on a take away basis. <\/p>\n<p>I also notice with our customers that people are still completely unaware of the security problems with old VOIP teostellen. Let&#8217;s not hope that things have to go badly wrong first&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1756,"template":"","subject":[],"label":[18],"class_list":["post-2481","blog","type-blog","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","label-blog-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it-recycling.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/label?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}