Hi, Keith:
The root cause of phone spam is because Caller-ID service was first
deteriorated by a marketing gimmick that enabled the spoofing of the
Caller-ID. Combined with eMail spam techniques, VoIP operations have now
become out of hand. Below is an overview of these annoyances. This is a
topic that I am not sure whether NANOG is the proper forum to deal with.
Although, certain parameters and considerations are closely related to
the Internet issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caller_ID_spoofing
Abe (2022-04-27 22:17)
On 2022-04-27 21:39, Keith Medcalf wrote:
With AT&T and perhaps others, you can forward the message to 7726
(spells SPAM on the keypad) and they'll reply asking for the originating
phone number or email address.
This is, of course, the root of the problem. The recipient of the spam does
not know either the originating phone number or the originating e-mail address.
All they know is the Advertizing ID -- and that is useless for everything
except what it was designed for -- advertizing.
If one knew the originating phone number then one would know who to hunt down and
which throat to slit from ear to ear, and there would be no need to involve
AT&T at all... This, and the fact that the Telco's get bloody rich from
providing termination for all the crap they have enabled is exactly the reason they
did it in the first place!
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