Phishing and telemarketing telephone calls

Sat Apr 25 12:52:21 UTC 2020

No different than any other network abuse mechanism and regulatory and legislative measures meant to control it. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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Midwest-IX 
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----- Original Message -----

From: "Jon Lewis" <jlewis at lewis.org> 
To: "Matthew Black" <Matthew.Black at csulb.edu> 
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 6:36:28 PM 
Subject: Re: Phishing and telemarketing telephone calls 

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Matthew Black wrote: 

> 
> Has anyone else noticed a steep decline in annoying phone calls since the FCC threatened legal action against three major VOIP gateways if they didn’t make efforts to prevent 
> Caller ID spoofing from scammers? 

Not that it's at all on-topic for NANOG, but no. I still get numerous 
"last chance to renew my car warranty" and whatever the scam is from the 
credit card callers per day on both my home and cell numbers. 

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