SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

Thu Jul 11 18:31:16 UTC 2019

On Thursday, 11 July, 2019 11:18, Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 12:00 PM Paul Timmins <paul at telcodata.us> wrote:

>> Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight,
>> by creating some liability on the part of carriers for illicit use of
>> caller ID data on behalf of their customers.

>'illicit use of caller id' - how is caller-id being illicitly used
>though?
>I don't think it's against the law to say a different 'callerid' in
>the call session, practically every actual call center does this, right?

The problem is that CallerID is not really the CallerID.  It is some fraudulent shit created by the caller.  This is not how "CallerID" was originally sold.  It was sold as being the ID of the Caller.  If it is not the ID of the Caller then Fraud is being committed and the bastards should be castrated (or worse), and the CEO and Directors of the carrier responsible for fraud getting through to the end-user should face the same penalty.

See then how quickly this gets fixed.  You will fall off your chair and it will be a "solved problem" before your arse hits the ground!

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