Industry insiders are lamenting the difficulty of tracking down bad actors in the internet telephony space. Recently, Globex Telecom was forced to pay over $2 million in restitution in connection with an illegal robocalling scheme. Globex’s owner, also ran a business called Educare Centre Services, which not only peddled a fraudulent credit-card-interest-rate scam, but regularly sent spam robocalls to consumers whose numbers were on the FTC’s national Do-Not-Call registry.

Experts say that Educare’s robocalls were difficult to intercept because of the ways that VoIP (voice over internet protocol) calls are routed. Since Globex Telecom also routed plenty of legitimate phone traffic over the internet, a US telecom like AT&T would have no way of differentiating Globex’s illegal calls from its legal ones.

Trade group analyst Jim McEachern said, “The scammers are really devious. They put a lot of effort into this … if you put a really good lock on your front door, they’ll just come in through the basement window.”

Possible Preaching Angles:

It is becoming increasingly difficult to discern between truth and falsehood. We must be vigilant and examine everything since even “Satan himself can appear as an angel of light” (2 Cor 11:14).