Phishing and telemarketing telephone calls

Mike Hammett nanog at ics-il.net
Mon Apr 27 16:33:30 UTC 2020


Where I was meaning to counter was Jon Lewis's point that it was offtopic. 




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From: "j k" <jsklein at gmail.com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net> 
Cc: "Jon Lewis" <jlewis at lewis.org>, "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 11:29:12 AM 
Subject: Re: Phishing and telemarketing telephone calls 


Mike, 


Except in this case the flaw was acknowledged back in the 80' and it room the FCC almost 40 years to do something about it. 


Joe Klein 


On Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 8:54 AM Mike Hammett < nanog at ics-il.net > wrote: 




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




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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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