[VoiceOps] Spoofed Traffic

[Scott Berkman]

If there is money behind the effort, you might want to try reaching out 
to a Internet Security consulting firm for a "vishing takedown".  They 
can help put pressure on the right carriers and assist in working with 
local LEOs.


On 12/11/2013 08:25 PM, Ryan Delgrosso wrote:
> 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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