RE: Are any of you starting to get AI robocalls?

["Sean Pedersen" <spedersen.lists () gmail com>]

Yep. Add it to the list of IRS scams, fake arrest warrants, credit repair, free vacations, etc. The rate of calls has 
increased dramatically in the past year, especially with the "neighborhood scam" where they spoof their CLID to a local 
area code and prefix + 0000 through 9999 and blast you with calls, trying to trick you into thinking it's someone local 
and thus important or legitimate.

I have a second phone I use for work and on-call, so that goes on DND from 6PM to 6AM with a VIP list of people/numbers 
that can ring through. No problems there, and somehow that number isn't (yet) on anyone's list, so I don't get many 
calls.

On my personal cell, I started to use an app called Hiya that has been pretty successful. It's available for both 
iPhone and Android. It powers a lot of the carrier-specific apps like AT&T Call Protect, but unlike them, it doesn't 
suck. It's a giant database of reports that rate calling numbers and classify them as fraud, scam, neighborhood 
spoofing, etc. and you can flag them or route them right to voicemail. The only time it doesn’t work is when it hasn't 
updated its list in a little while and a few sneak through. They just realized a premium version that added some 
features. I haven't explored it yet.

Went from about 20 calls a week to almost nothing.

Carriers seem to be either uncapable or unwilling to address the issue other than the occasional lip-service reply 
about "taking customer's $variable seriously." 

-----Original Message-----
From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of William Herrin
Sent: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 3:32 PM
To: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Are any of you starting to get AI robocalls?

Howdy.

Have any of you started to get AI robocalls? I've had a couple of
calls recently where I get the connect silence of a predictive dialer
followed by a woman speaking with call center background noise. She
gives her name and asks how I'm doing. The first time it happened it
seemed off for reasons I can't quite articulate, so I asked: "Are you
a robot or a person?" She responded "yes" and then launched in to a
sales pitch. The next time I asked, "where can I direct your call?"
She responded "that's good" and launched in to her pitch.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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