Re: Phishing and telemarketing telephone calls

[j k <jsklein () gmail com>]

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 () 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 () lewis org>
> *To: *"Matthew Black" <Matthew.Black () csulb edu>
> *Cc: *"North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog () 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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