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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Y'all realize that if the trust of
      carriers to not let garbage calls with spoofed near neighbor anis
      on their networks none of these other problems would exist, right?
      (using my backup iPhone for the last few days, I have been exposed
      to the brunt of the garbage google has been call screening for me,
      and I completely sympathize with anyone trying to do anything to
      confound the bad actors at this point, consequences be damned.)<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/16/21 11:44 AM, Carlos Alvarez
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        <div dir="ltr">But the ridiculous side of this is that there are
          valid reasons to "spoof" numbers.  We have two customers who
          need to do it all the time, and it's legal, as well as
          demanded by their customers.
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            AM <<a href="mailto:paul@timmins.net"
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            <div dir="auto">Legal or not it’s genius. Humans will notice
              right away and it’ll cost for the robocallers.<br>
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                <blockquote type="cite">On Feb 16, 2021, at 11:23 AM,
                  Calvin Ellison <<a
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                  <div dir="ltr">Today we received a notice from one of
                    our underlying carriers that included the following
                    statement:
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                            If a customer spoofs an ANI that they do not
                            own, the clec's can forward to call to a
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                      <div>Is there any legal device that actually
                        supports this practice? I'm looking for a
                        specific statute, FCC rule, precedent in a
                        judicial ruling, or the like.</div>
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                      <div>The FCC has ruled that the SIP 608 response
                        code is to be used for signaling when a call is
                        rejected. I doubt the FCC or FTC has ruled that
                        terminating carriers are permitted to cause loss
                        of trust and revenue between upstream
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                                          <div dir="ltr">Regards,
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