Re: Phishing and telemarketing telephone calls

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

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




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From: "j k" <jsklein () gmail com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog () ics-il net> 
Cc: "Jon Lewis" <jlewis () lewis org>, "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog () 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 () 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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