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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>+1 – we’ve been getting them as well for a couple of months. Maybe it’s a function of our outgoing message length but our VMs are all 10 seconds of “dead air”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> VoiceOps [mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Brandon Lehmann<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 02, 2013 10:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> nick@flhsi.com; Jay Hennigan<br><b>Cc:</b> voiceops@voiceops.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [VoiceOps] Strange inbound Calls<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'>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></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> VoiceOps [<a href="mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org">mailto:voiceops-bounces@voiceops.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Nick Olsen<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jay Hennigan<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [VoiceOps] Strange inbound Calls<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;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><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Nick Olsen<br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Network Operations</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>(855) FLSPEED x106<br><br><span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><img border=0 width=168 height=56 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CEC020.ECC282E0" alt="Image removed by sender."></span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>: "Jay Hennigan" <<a href="mailto:jay@west.net">jay@west.net</a>><br><b>Sent</b>: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:25 PM<br><b>To</b>: <a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">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>> <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 - <a href="mailto:jay@impulse.net">jay@impulse.net</a><br>Impulse Internet Service - <a href="http://www.impulse.net/">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">VoiceOps@voiceops.org</a><br><a href="https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops">https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>