Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Sprint Cracks Down on TTY Relay Abuses

Posted by michael on Tuesday April 27, 2004 @05:02AM from the do-not-call-list dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sprint thinks it has found a way to keep West African scam artists from using Sprint's deaf-relay service to defraud people." Our previous two stories have background information.

2 of 192 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Blocking IP addresses? Only a matter of time... by beebware · 2004-04-27 05:08 · Score: 4, Informative

I know our web hosting business has had quite a bit of fraud the past few days which has resulted in me finding a big list of 1,700 anonymous/open proxies and then blacklisting them/their IP addresses. Ok - it won't block every single one, but hopefully it'll block the majority/well known ones.
Re:Here's an idea.... by lish2 · 2004-04-27 05:41 · Score: 4, Informative

You (and a lot of people) are missing a key fact: the relay service is ALSO legitimately used by hearing people to call deaf people. You can't just require everyone who uses the service to "prove you're deaf", or whatever.