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<div>--<br>Matthew S. Crocker<br>President<br>Crocker Communications, Inc.<br>PO BOX 710<br>Greenfield, MA 01302-0710<br><br>E: <a href="mailto:matthew@crocker.com">matthew@crocker.com</a><br>P: (413) 746-2760<br>F: (413) 746-3704<br>W: <a href="http://www.crocker.com">http://www.crocker.com</a></div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Oct 2, 2013, at 10:31 PM, Brandon Lehmann <<a href="mailto:brandon@bitradius.com">brandon@bitradius.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">I’ll have to dig into our logs a bit closer. We’ve been seeing a bunch of 1s voicemails appear from random calling numbers to one of our TFs the last few months. I attributed it to listing the # on our ARIN and RADB entries for our ASN but haven’t had time to find the correlation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></div><div style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1.5pt; border-left-color: blue; padding: 0in 0in 0in 4pt; "><div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-<a href="mailto:bounces@voiceops.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">bounces@voiceops.org</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On Behalf Of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Nick Olsen<br><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:54 PM<br><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jay Hennigan<br><b>Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">voiceops@voiceops.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [VoiceOps] Strange inbound Calls<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">If the call is answered by a human, They hear nothing on the other side. I will ask our receptionist to allow the call to continue for a minute or so and see if it hangs up at the 60 second mark.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> </span></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Timing our own IVR. It takes exactly 60 seconds, If you press nothing to get all the way 1 second in to voicemail. As these calls always appear leaving 1 second voicemails.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">Nick Olsen<br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">Network Operations</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">(855) FLSPEED x106<br><br><span style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in; "><span><image001.jpg></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> </span></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">: "Jay Hennigan" <<a href="mailto:jay@west.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">jay@west.net</a>><br><b>Sent</b>: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:25 PM<br><b>To</b>:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">voiceops@voiceops.org</a><br><b>Subject</b>: Re: [VoiceOps] Strange inbound Calls<br><br>On 10/2/13 10:13 AM, Nick Olsen wrote:<br>> Hello Everyone,<br>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>> We've been seeing a lot of strange inbound calls to our toll free<br>> numbers recently. The only thing they have in common is the caller ID<br>> text is always a city and a state. And the the call duration is 60<br>> seconds on the dot..Every time.<br><br>Are the calls answered by a human? If so, what do they hear? If not<br>and it's an IVR, if you call and say nothing does the call drop in 60<br>seconds?<br><br>City and state are not uncommon for CNAM. Many CNAM providers will put<br>the city and state of the rate center for the NPA-NXX if caller name<br>isn't available.<br><br>--<br>Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:jay@impulse.net" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">jay@impulse.net</a><br>Impulse Internet Service -<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.impulse.net/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.impulse.net/</a><br>Your local telephone and internet company - 805 884-6323 - WB6RDV<br>_______________________________________________<br>VoiceOps mailing list<br><a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>VoiceOps mailing list<br><a href="mailto:VoiceOps@voiceops.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>