[VoiceOps] Confusing Spoofing Customers

[Christopher Aloi]

It's possible, and a theory we have been thinking of... just hard to prove
much.  We don't have the "bad" call on our network, so there isn't much
there to go on.

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:34 AM Alex Balashov <abalashov at evaristesys.com>
wrote:

> Any possibility that someone out there specifically has it out for your
> customer, and hopes to inundate them with calls from bewildered consumers?
>
> —
> Sent from mobile, with due apologies for brevity and errors.
>
> > On Nov 6, 2020, at 11:30 AM, Christopher Aloi <ctaloi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > Hey All,
> >
> > We have observed multiple reports of our business customer telephone
> numbers being used by a bad actor leaving messages for consumers.  The
> consumers receiving the call do not have a direct relationship with us.
> The bad actor presents “unknown” as the caller-id and leaves a harsh
> message asking for personal information and demanding a call back (illegal
> sounding collector call).  The number the bad actor leaves to be called
> back (in a verbal message) is owned by one of our business customers.  So,
> the response to the “bad” call goes back to the legit company.  The
> consumer calls our business customer back and explains the message, the
> business customer has no record of an outbound call to the consumer and is
> perplexed by the call.
> >
> > We have a few customers impacted by this and in every instance we have
> no record of the outbound (bad actor) call leaving our network.  I can’t
> figure out the scam here, they aren’t pumping traffic and the call goes
> back to the legit business, leaving no opportunity for the bad actor to
> engage with the consumer.  Anyone have any thoughts?
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