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<p>Pretty simply - Sending caller ID to commit fraud. It's literally
already illegal. The legislature has already defined it for us,
even.</p>
<p>47 USC 227</p>
<p><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227">https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227</a></p>
<div class="subparagraph indent2"><a name="b_1_B"></a><span
class="num" value="B">(B)</span>
<div class="content"> to initiate any telephone call to any
residential telephone line using an artificial or prerecorded
voice to deliver a message without the prior express consent of
the called party, unless the call is initiated for emergency
purposes, is made solely pursuant to the collection of a debt
owed to or guaranteed by the <a class="colorbox-load
definedterm"
href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227"
data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">United States</a>,
or is exempted by rule or order by the<a class="colorbox-load
definedterm"
href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227"
data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal"> Commission </a>under
paragraph (2)(B);</div>
<div class="content"><br>
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<div class="content"><span class="num bold" value="1">(e)(1)</span><span
class="heading bold"> In general</span>
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<p>It shall be unlawful for any <a class="colorbox-load
definedterm"
href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227"
data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">person</a>
within the <a class="colorbox-load definedterm"
href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227"
data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">United States</a>,
in connection with any <a class="colorbox-load definedterm"
href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227"
data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal">telecommunications
service</a> or<a class="colorbox-load definedterm"
href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227"
data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal"> IP-enabled
voice service,</a> to cause any<a class="colorbox-load
definedterm"
href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227"
data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal"> caller
identification service </a>to knowingly transmit
misleading or inaccurate<a class="colorbox-load definedterm"
href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227"
data-toggle="modal" data-target="#myModal"> caller
identification information </a>with the intent to
defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value,
unless such transmission is exempted pursuant to paragraph
(3)(B).</p>
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<p>All I'm asking is to make the carrier liable if it should have
been obvious to a carrier using basic traffic analysis that the
service was a robocaller (low answer rates combined with tons of
source numbers, especially situations where the source and
destination number share the first 6 digits) that the carrier be
liable for failing to look into it.</p>
<p>Carriers already look at things like short duration in order to
assess higher charges, and already investigate call center
traffic. If they then look at the caller ID and it looks
"suspect", and the customer then is contacted and barred from
sending arbitrary caller ID until they can verify they own the
numbers they're calling from, then they're good to go.</p>
<p>If the carrier continues to just ensure that call center traffic
is a revenue stream they can bill higher without making sure
they're outpulsing valid numbers, then they should absorb the
social costs of what's going on.</p>
<p>Let's not get this confused - this isn't about customer PBXen
outpulsing forwarded calls when they do it, it's about people
shooting millions of calls a month, the carrier hitting them with
short duration charges, making more money, and having zero
incentive to question the arrangement.<br>
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<p>-Paul<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/11/19 1:18 PM, Christopher Morrow
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAL9jLaa9zNuPKJ=StWonF_X2=2y85zv9M=1-PWp0oq9t2JA=3Q@mail.gmail.com">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">'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?
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