On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:20:22PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: > On Sat, 17 Apr 2021, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > >Anecdotal: With the prior consent of the DID holders, I have successfully > >ported peoples' numbers using nothing more than a JPG scan of a signature > >that looks like an illegible 150 dpi black and white blob, pasted in an > >image editor on top of a generic looking 'phone bill'. > > All carriers should independently verify any LOAs received for account > changes. > > Documents received from third-parties, without independently verifying > with the customer of record, using the carriers own records, are just junk > papers. > > Almost no carriers verify LOAs by contacting the customer of record. > Worse, they call the phone number on the letterhead provide by the scammer > for "verification."
Presumably we're kinda talking about a problem parallel to the Internet ASN/IP space LOA problem here. It would be awesome if there were a nice easy way to identify the responsible parties, so you could figure out WHOIS the appropriate party to contact. If you've ever tried Googling a company with a hundred thousand employees, calling their contact number on the Web, and getting through to anybody who knows anything at all about IT, well, you can spend a day at it and still have gotten nowhere. It's too bad that this information is so frequently redacted for privacy. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"-Asimov
