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Fraud over Internet Protocol Last modified: Tuesday, August 08, 2006
FoIP, short for Fraud over Internet Protocol, is the act of taking advantage of VoIP security vulnerabilities to steal network capacity. The term was used after a well-known criminal case where two men tapped into corporate and service provider networks and routed millions of minutes in calls illegally. One of the first uses of the term FoIP as an acronym for Fraud over Internet Protocol appeared in an article on Datamation. (Datamation is owned by the same parent company as Webopedia.)
EarthWeb’s IT Management Provides strategic information and analysis that lets CIOs, CTOs and Senior IT Managers be more effective in their jobs. Articles and columns cover a variety of topics important to IT Managers, including: security, network and systems management, application development, enterprise resource planning, intranets and IT services. Enterprise VoIP Planet The IT Manager's Guide to Voice over IP FoIP (Fraud over IP) Alarm bells should be going off at VoIP providers everywhere after the recent case in which a fraudulent VoIP aggregator routed as many as 10 million minutes of calls through other providers' networks and pocketed an estimated $1 million in fees from its customers.	Related Categories Ethics Internet Telephony Telecommunications Related Terms fax over Internet Protocol Internet Phone Internet Protocol Internet telephony VoIP VoIP Gateway VoWi-Fi Shopping internet protocol Products Compare Products,Prices and Stores Shop by Category: Security Systems and Surveillance 99 Store Offers