> Spoofing technology even allows callers to match the first six digits of recipients’ own numbers. Consumer complaints about that practice, dubbed “neighbor spoofing,” are on the rise, according to the FCC.
By chance my phone number is from a completely different city than where I work and live, so whenever I get calls that match the area code of my number, I know to ignore them.
> Carriers are working on developing a set of technologies nicknamed SHAKEN and STIR that will allow them to digitally sign off on caller ID information using cryptographic keys.
Really makes me wonder how guys like Abramovich get started. Did he used to work for the telecoms and knew how things worked? Or is he just one of those insanely motivated hacker types to just poke around the internet and find opportunity?
Well, I think it's because there's no more fines like that, at least until now. If the government (worldwide) will think seriously about cracking them down and give such punishments to them, I believe such spammers will stop harassing us. People should also try to report them or even filing lawsuits against them, like what I just read at http://www.whycall.me/news/my-4500-payday-from-a-telemarkete....
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 22.0 ms ] threadBy chance my phone number is from a completely different city than where I work and live, so whenever I get calls that match the area code of my number, I know to ignore them.
> Carriers are working on developing a set of technologies nicknamed SHAKEN and STIR that will allow them to digitally sign off on caller ID information using cryptographic keys.
That makes a lot of sense to me.
Really makes me wonder how guys like Abramovich get started. Did he used to work for the telecoms and knew how things worked? Or is he just one of those insanely motivated hacker types to just poke around the internet and find opportunity?