[VoiceOps] Rogue 800 number

Aaron Seelye aseelye-lists at eltopia.com
Tue Jan 31 12:40:19 EST 2012


If you have the ability, dip the number to see the carrier.  Then you'll 
have to contact them, though I wouldn't know if they'd willingly release 
that information.  Perhaps a RESPORG would have more tools to do 
something, I'm just looking at it from a LEC perspective.

-Aaron

On 1/31/2012 8:53 AM, J. Oquendo wrote:
> Hey all, just wondering slash curious about something. I have a client
> who had their domain pseudo-typosquatted and whomever is behind it went
> as far as registering a toll free number with a professional sounding
> AutoAttendant referencing the victim company's name and the owner on a
> dial by name directory. There are no accents/typos in the autoattendant
> and dialing an extension, as we all can imagine, is likely being call
> forwarded or trunked elsewhere.
>
> In any event, I would like to track down what carrier is responsible for
> the number but have had no luck asking/enquiring/etc to my carriers (big
> 3-4 Level, VZ, Global, Paetec)... Any takers on tracking who owns this
> number?
>


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