“Stapling the pockets is just one of them to ensure that nobody can put
an item in their pocket and walk in (to the call centres)…..We have to take all
necessary precaution to ensure that our data and our clients' data is not
compromised in any way”
CEO of Global Outsourcing Limited
Davon Crump, at the Conference on Cyber Security and Digital Forensics at the
University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
That above statement must have shocked the attendants at that Cyber
Security Conference at the University of the West Indies as reported in “Pockets Stapled! ... Call
Centres Workers Face New Measure To Secure Client Data”, Published
Tuesday October 1, 2013 12:11 pm, The Jamaica Gleaner.
But its regular news to me based on my experience from working at
Fullgram Solutions Limited as a CSA (Customer Service Agent) from February 24th
2012 to April 1st 2012. Fullgram Solutions is now renamed as Fullgram
International Call Center Limited, Telecom Provider Digicel’s current Call
Center for Prepaid and Postpaid Customers as stated my blog article
entitled “Digicel cuts 120 Call Center
Jobs - Fullgram Solutions to benefit as Antonio Graham speaks of an AEPP future
by the Ocean”.
Already the BPIAJ (Business Process Industry Association of Jamaica)
President Yoni Epstein has distanced themselves from the comments of the CEO of
Global Outsourcing Limited Davon Crump as stated in the article “Pocket Stapling
Practice 'Draconian', Says Call Centre Operators Group”, Published
Wednesday October 2, 2013 11:19 am, by Livern Barrett, Gleaner Writer, The Jamaica Gleaner.
In BPIAJ President Yoni Epstein own words, quote: “The BPIAJ and its
members do not condone such draconian measures being used to prevent security
breaches and protect client's data”.
Hello, I’m Lindsworth Deer –
Call Center Veteran for Three Years
I’d also worked previously at ACS-Xerox as a CSA (Customer Service Agent)
from November 1st 2011to January 27th 2012 on the Amazon
Account during which time I’d penned several articles on Call Centers and
Amazon latest product, the Amazon Kindle Fire as noted in my Geezam Blog article entitled “Amazon
Kindle Fire vs the Apple iPad – The Stats Wars worth Reading About”. If you
wish to see them all, go to my Geezam
Account and search for “Amazon
Kindle Fire”.
ACCENT Marketing was the last place I’d worked from June 23rd 2012
to April 17st 2013 as a TES (Technical Engagement Specialist), which
I’d left to work at AREL Jamaica Limited as a Biomedical Field Engineer. At
which point I’d penned my blog article entitled “How to find work in Jamaica at Call Centers - Job
Agencies, Applications with Proposals and Reading the Sunday Gleaner for Fast
and the Furious 6 Tips and Tricks” on how I’d managed to escape the
Milk Chocolate and free Pizza Factory that was ACCENT Marketing after nearly nine
(9) months of hard work in this Call Center located at 63-65 Knutsford
Boulevard.
After spending so long in that field over a span of almost 3 years
on-and-off, I’ve begun a series of article on their World that are titled “How to find work in Jamaica at Call Centers”
for easy Google Searching. From my sojourn, I’ve found their World is not
different from Telecoms with the exception it’s more touchy-feely in terms of
how workers interact with each other, you get lots of free food and they’re
non-discriminatory in terms of who they employ.
Also, Millennials Rule (ages18 to 28) rule and are very tech-centric, owing
to the fact that they deal with a lot of Customers and assist them if their
heads aren’t tough, with their Technology related queries for the various
accounts, mainly Panasonic, Sharp, SC Direct and Asus (am I forgetting
anyone?).
You can get dehydrated easily after four (4) hours of non-stop talking in
the phone, requiring that you rehydrate frequently as noted in my blog article
entitled “How
to find work in Jamaica at Call Centers - Drink Bottled Water as Dehydration
and Salty Foods makes you lose concentration”.
And yes, in the future, changes to the Labour laws that are yet to be
made by Minister of Labour David Kellier will mean more Flex-Working and BPO
(Business Process Outsourcing) companies coming to Jamaica as stated in my blog article
entitled “How to find work in Jamaica
at Call Centers - Church opposed to Modernizing Jamaica via Flexi-Work and 4G
LTE to introduce Tele-commuting is really Much Ado About Nothing”.
My work
resume logs all of the places I’ve worked while searching for Work in Call
Centers in Jamaica and hunting legitimate work on my Days Off
How Call Center Workers are
connected to Scam – Easy Access to Create Lead Lists
So the unfeeling comments of CEO of Global Outsourcing Limited Davon
Crump at this mostly intellectual crowd that has never worked in a Call Center
that are damaging to morale as well as your good-good Gucci pants are nothing
new. Call Center managers like CEO of Global Outsourcing Limited Davon Crump
are evil embodied!
Call Center work, in the eyes of the
TES and CSA’s, is basically a form of Modern day slavery with Pizza and Candy
as the sweeteners, being carried home from work via bus as a perk and a measly
JA$300 per hour (if ya lucky) salary! Really the last bit of freedom that’s
left to take away is personal privacy in terms of having cameras everywhere, as
your calls are all monitored. His comments really indicate that Global
Outsourcing Limited may have trust issues with their staff and they don’t have
the money to install Cameras.
Worse, the Millennials Rule (ages18 to 28) and the few Generation X’ers
(ages 29 to 45) who work in the field still continue to break the rules in
terms of carrying Cellphones and External Storage devices such a Thumb Drives
and MP4 Players onto the Production Floor and in some cases stealing equiptment
e.g. Tablets and using it as a means to transport Customer information, mainly
Credit Card Numbers and the associated information.
So it’s real easy to create a Lead list, one copied piece of Customer
information at a time every time the Customer has to make a Sale or upgrade a
service. The temptation becomes very high as the work conditions help to
ferment a dislike for the nature of the Job which many are not psychologically
ready to accept: subservience to someone else to make money instead of using
your other job skills!
How to Scam Customers – Got
Lead List, will spend Money on your Credit Card
Once they’ve had enough of not having money and watching all that money
dance before their eyes, scamming Americans or even stealing stuff from the
company becomes an easy choice and a temptation that’s hard to ignore.
The technically savvy CSA can in their spare time, usually days off when
they go home to either log onto the Internet and use either a Proxy or a VPN
(Virtual Private Network) Connection to use the Customer’s Credit Card Number and
personal information online to buy whatever you want as explained in my blog article
entitled “How to find Free TV online
and how to Stream from Hulu or Netflix in Jamaica - Jamaican Pirate of the
Caribbean on Stranger Tides Streaming Restricted US Content”.
Because you can login as if you’re in another country by using a rotating
list of Proxies or VPN’s, you’re basically undetected. You then create a fake
email address and then proceed to get yourself a Payment Gateway such as Paypal
as explained in my blog article entitled “How Jamaicans can set up a
Payment Gateway in order to process Credit Card purchases - E-Commerce the main
Catalyst for Increasing Jamaica's Internet Penetration” and purchase
items online securely and anonymously.
You then purchase your items and then ship the items to Jamaica via a
Shipping Courier as described in my blog article entitled
“How to purchase items and
subscribe to Magazines online and ship them to Jamaica”. After this,
you gotta lie low for a bit and wait and see if the Customer notices that their
Credit Card Balance is diminishing or being used to make purchases.
This is basically Identity Theft, plain and simple! Some may even go the
extra mile and scam fellow Jamaicans abroad when they go on vacation or even
locally at Cyber Cafes as explained in my blog article
entitled “Professor
Marco Gercke warns of Scammers using Keyloggers for Spear Phishing - How to use
Keyloggers and how to Protect yourself from Scammer's American Hustle for Fast
Cash”.
In this case you
can also clone the Credit Card and withdrawal all of the persons money, though
that’ll involve you buying a Credit Card Copier to copy the info on the
Magnetic Strip from one Credit Card to another as explained in my blog article entitled “Debit Card
Cloning and the Cashless Society” and “Who is
responsible if your Credit Card or Debit Card Account is hackeD?”.
The more common scamming method is to create Lead List patiently from all
that personal information you handle on a daily basis. Then call the Customer later
on during you off-work hours using a Master Jack or a paid Skype or Google
Voice account, telling them that they’d won the State Lotto that they’d never
entered and tell them they have to send you money to collect the prize for
processing….all with a nice voice and the use of the word “Sweetie”.
This is the essence of Lotto Scamming, which is now on the decline thanks
to the recently amended Cybercrime Act of 2010 which now sees punishments as
severe as twenty five (25) years in prison as explain in my blog
article entitled “GOJ amends
the Cybercrime Act of 2010, enlists Ethical Hackers in a Cyber Emergency
Response Team - White Hat Hackers are the Q.U.E.E.N Project Janelle Monae and
Erica Badu Style”.
So
the Deterrent is more than strong enough to stop any Millennial (ages 18 to 28)
from stealing and ending up unable to work anywhere in Jamaica or possibly in
the United States of American, depending on the contract you signed at your
Call Center.
Attracting BPO’s to Jamaican -
Increased Security Measures a sign of Trust Issues
Stapling
CSA’s pockets is unnecessary and “draconian” and is bound to be met with the
same opposition as the installation of Cameras in the Bathroom and other
private places; draconian defined. Plus it’s an indication of a serious lack of
trust in your own employees if you have to resort to doing this.
The
best way to deal with Data Security
issues as suggested in the article “Pocket Stapling
Practice 'Draconian', Says Call Centre Operators Group”, Published
Wednesday October 2, 2013 11:19 am, by Livern Barrett, Gleaner Writer, The Jamaica Gleaner is to make sure the CSA’s and TES have a
completely Paper-free work environment:
1.
CSA’s searched regularly for and ban Mobile
phones, Thumb Drives and other Removable Storage Media
2.
Make it mandatory at the time of employment
for all staff to undergo Polygraph and have them carry in a Police Record to
give an idea of their level of Trustworthiness
3.
Block all access to the Internet except for
the websites need to do work and Google
4.
Removing all writing implements and paper
from the Floor and make all work documents virtual and available only via a
Shared Network Drive
5.
Regular monitoring Sessions, both Random and
structured
To
quote BPIAJ President Yoni Epstein once more in their Press Release: “With the recent increase in illegal
schemes such as lottery scamming and other fraudulent activities primarily in
western Jamaica – the epicentre of the BPO industry – entities have had to
implement greater security measures to protect the flow and use of information”.
Once
those measure are in place, Security is more than guaranteed again any such
scamming activity potentially taking place. Best of all you can conserve on
your usage of Staplers!
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