FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

Thu Apr 28 02:19:29 UTC 2022

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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