Re: FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

["Abraham Y. Chen" <aychen () avinta com>]

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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