[VoiceOps] Spoofed Traffic

[Ryan Delgrosso]

LOL @ the FOIA request bit.

Seriously he hit the nail on the head. Weve seen this before and there 
is honestly little that can be done.

On 12/11/2013 03:20 PM, Peter Beckman wrote:
> You tell the customer that there is nothing you can do. There are so many
> resellers of resellers, spoofing CallerID is practically brainless, 
> and bad
> actors will complete millions of calls, maybe even billions, using 
> anyone's
> ANI they want. Best you can do is offer to block calls from people who 
> are
> being jerks complaining to your customer who didn't make the calls.
>
> The phone system is decentralized, and while that is generally great, it
> sucks for this.
>
> There is nothing that can be done that will be effective. You can 
> complain
> to lots of places, but unless the call is going through their network, 
> and
> how could you possibly know what network the call is going through, they
> can't help. Even if it is, they might decide not to help.
>
> A non-profit independent organization would have to get all the carriers
> involved to allow for tracking who sent what calls where and when. And us
> little guys won't get access, so we'll have to cut a ticket to our 
> carrier
> to their carrier before we get a response a week later.
>
> Or you could ask for an FOIA request from the NSA. Pretty sure they'd 
> know.
>
> Beckman
>
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Jared Geiger wrote:
>
>> One of our customers is reporting that their ANI is being used to make
>> calls. I've verified that the traffic isn't traversing our network, 
>> but I'm
>> not sure of where to look next.
>>
>> The customer doesn't necessarily want to know who is making the 
>> calls, but
>> wants them to stop. I know I can contact Verizon, who owns the 
>> number, but
>> since the calls aren't being originated from us or our customer, I'm not
>> sure how they can help.
>>
>> Does anyone have ideas of how to go about blocking this since we 
>> aren't the
>> LEC owner of the DID?
>>
>> ~Jared
>>
>
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