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Are they coming in via your carrier(s), or are they coming from random IPs?</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Dec 11, 2022 at 1:09:28 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><div></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000"><span style="font-size:10pt">Didn't even realize I had sent it already...</span><div style="font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We've been getting "empty" calls for years. BY empty, I mean there's no audio there at all.</span><span style="font-size:13.3333px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> They're calls from all over the place (I don't think I've traced them all down). We've had them sit on the line for hours (back when our IVR permitted that).</span></div><div style="font-size:10pt"><br></div><div style="font-size:10pt">Okay, I'll just deal with it. Now they're hitting our customers too.</div><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px">To me, it's more annoying than active scam calls because there's doubt if it's real or not. I assume every call not from a current or prospective customer is a scam, so from the content, it's easy to tell.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13.3333px">How are others handling these calls?<br style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span><br><div style="font-size:10pt"><span name="x"></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br><a href="http://www.ics-il.com">http://www.ics-il.com</a><br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br><a href="http://www.midwest-ix.com">http://www.midwest-ix.com</a><br><br><span name="x"></span><br></div><br><hr id="zwchr" style="font-size:10pt"><div style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><b>From: </b>"Mike Hammett" <<a href="mailto:voiceops@ics-il.net">voiceops@ics-il.net</a>><br><b>To: </b>"Voiceops.org" <<a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">voiceops@voiceops.org</a>><br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, December 11, 2022 2:07:02 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Empty Calls<br><br><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000">We've been getting "empty" calls for years. BY empty, I mean there's no audio there at all. <br><br><div><span></span><br><br>-----<br>Mike Hammett<br>Intelligent Computing Solutions<br><a href="http://www.ics-il.com">http://www.ics-il.com</a><br><br><br><br>Midwest Internet Exchange<br><a href="http://www.midwest-ix.com">http://www.midwest-ix.com</a><br><br><span></span><br></div><br></div></div><br></div></div></div></div>
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