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VoIP to Fuel Plague of 'Dialing for Dollars'/Spam
Ant writes "Broadband Reports says Internet News is exploring how telemarketers world-wide are realizing they can dodge long-distance costs (and U.S. "Do Not Call" restraints) by voice spamming VoIP users. Different from SPIT (spam over internet telephony) because it's not automated, an analyst in the article predicts homes and businesses could see some 150 calls a day from overseas call centers."
Gentlemen, start up your whitelists!
You mean U.S. laws don't apply everywhere? We should get that law changed!
I'm a big tall mofo.
Russia, China, India... Who'd have thought these would be new sources of spam?! I routinely block these domains/net blocks from sending email into our networks (along with a few of the other well known spam sludge pits), so would it really be that difficult to firewall out all VOIP traffic from these places too? Maybe if enough people just cut them off they'd change their attitudes to providing havens for (mostly) American spam "companies".
In fact, I'd imagine these call centres would be easier to firewall off the 'net than spammers, as it would be harder to switch net blocks once a blackhole service was set up to list the offending address ranges.
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
This is just more proof that the Internet is the worst thing that could have ever happened to our civilization. No, really. It'll all end in tears and heartbreak.
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Can we please block Anonymous Cowards from posting? ...
er... wait. Never mind. Erase erase.
Yeah, cause grandma jean has a whole trove of zombie machines out there just waiting to DDoS the first sucker that dares to spam her VOIP phone.
Common knowledge tells us that Telemarketing in general should not be a viable business. And yet, it is isn't it?
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"Hi this is John. I am screening my calls. Please leave a voicemail and I will call you back."
"Hi John, this is Pete. You just tried to call me, and left me voicemail about my attempted call a few minutes ago. Please call me back."
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So you would mail empty boxes to people you didn't like?
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Redirect the call from spammers to one of the other spammers that calls me, so now the spammers are just all calling each other.
Don't know if all VoIP services have individual phone number redirecting, but i use Lingo, and they do :)
Yeah, I got a spam that I went through the same spiel with. Checked the headers, did some dns lookups, etc. etc. Finally I found the responsible ISP.
Problem was, when I sent my subpoena to Novosibirsk all I got back was a legal notice saying, and I quote...
"In Soviet Russia, jurisdiction limits YOU."
1 - receive spam ( regardless of what format )
2 - find responsible parties
3 - kill them
4 - repeat until spam stops.
---- Booth was a patriot ----