Cheap Calls Lead To International Phone Spam
from the can't-wait-for-this dept
For a few years, we've been warned about the impending doom of VoIP spam, though much of that concern was centered on automated calls sent to users on VoIP networks. Apparently the real problem is being driven not by the ability to send out thousands of calls from a computer as easily as sending out thousands of emails, but rather the ever-falling prices of international voice calls thanks to VoIP and other market developments. Telemarketers, scammers and other annoying callers are simply avoiding local do not call regulations by going global and taking advantage of cheap international call rates to make their usual calls with autodialers and recorded messages to the PSTN. There's not a lot of recourse for consumers or regulators, since the calls are passed without caller ID information, making them difficult to trace, and it's not as if people making these calls really care about following local laws. And as the cost of calls continues to fall, it would seem the problem is simply going to get worse -- with the same kind of people who buy from or get scammed by email spam making it worth VoIP spammers' while to harrass the rest of us.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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I get an average one call a day from India trying to sell me DISHNET service, sometimes 3 calls in space of one hour. They laugh when I mention "do not call" list. They have scanned the telephone directory and pulled out East Indian names and call them everyday. I know this because they still quote me my old address. There is SIMPLY no way to avoid these calls. I have taken to hangup whenever somebody asks for me by my FULL name.
DISHNET, if you are hearing, I WILL NEVER SUBSCRIBE to your services no matter what. I am so thoroughly disgusted.
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Why not get these SOB's also
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work around
downside, many legit agencies also hide their number, but they can always write to you i guess.
or get yourself a 'press 1 to talk to me' system, which will nuke the auto dialers, and probably confuse the hell out of india.
i hate this.
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I wasted a 30 seconds reading your post and another 30 seconds responding to your post; a minute i will never get back
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privacy manager or anonymous call rejection
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Caller ID
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There is no end to idiocy...
Idiots respond to spam.
Idiots converse with telemarketers.
Idiots please allow me to explain in simple math:
[Spam - Idiots = 0 Spam]
[Telemarketers - Idiots = 0 Telemarketers]
So you see, if you idiots didn't engage in either, they would receive nothing in return, if they receive nothing for their effort, they are wasting their time, if they are wasting their time, they'll be forced to get real jobs elswhere and proceed to forever close down their mining operations.
Oh yeah idiots...Mining = Spam and/or Telemarketing
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If I am bored, I would pick up the phone and check who is calling. If it is a sales person, I will make my day by making sure that their time is wasted.
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Telespam
- Pick up phone
- Identify that it's a telemarketer
- put down phone and let them talk
- go about your business listening for dead air
- if dead air say "i'm listening", or "could you repeat that"
- when they get wise say "well, now you know what it's like to have your time wasted by some dickwad on the phone"
- hang up
- smile
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VOIP white-listing?
callerID is easily spoofed by many PBX systems, so blacklisting (rejecting calls from a list of offenders) only works for serious offenders.
whitelisting is a common practice for stopping spam via IM (adding someone to your friends list and only accepting IMs from people on your friends list).
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the idiots
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voip attacks
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voip attacks
The problem will not be limited to incoming spoofed calls, but to outbound as well. US mail letters will target zipcodes, and urge people to contact some legit co., like, an area bank or utility, and give them a phone number to call to solve some problem. Many people will give up their private and financial info if they think they are making a local call to a local business, and never realize that the social engineer is on a line that terminates in romania. Mostly that's thanks to level 3 which sells "call center" services, and sells "fake" non-geographically assigned phone numbers to scum or to "distribution affiliates" that re-sell to scum. VoIP co's have no incentive to prevent this onslaught. They need one.
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Re: There is no end to idiocy...
The idiots who BUY stuff from telemarketers are really the ones perpetuating the cycle. Ditto for people who buy from spammers.
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Cheap calls to Pakistan
Simply dial this number for(Landline & Mobile) 0871 456 1003.After that the destination number, including country code.
For more details visit this site:-
http://www.briing.com/cheap-calls/pakistan.php
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Cheap International Calls
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Rampant violation of Do Not Call
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