Quattrohead
join:2005-02-09
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Re: Spam calls from spoofed CID
Its getting worse. Had a call on my VS number 413 315xxxx. This is the number that showed up on CID 619-582-3747
»whocallsme.com/ is another website I found to record these calls.
Is anyone else getting these, do the carriers care ? |
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nitzan
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join:2008-02-27
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| said by Quattrohead  :Is anyone else getting these, do the carriers care ? My guess would be a "no" on that one - they don't care. In fact, as long as they're getting paid they'll be happy to assist the spammers.
Is your number on the Do Not Call list? I don't think that'll stop them, but it'll be a good start.
I guess this is a good reminder as to why we need to implement blacklisting and such.  I expect the problem to just get worse - it costs spammers literally a fraction of a cent to send a message to your phone - so as long as even a tiny fraction of the target crowd responds and buys - they make money. It's not as prevalent now since some people haven't figured out how to do it yet - but eventually they will. |
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Quattrohead
join:2005-02-09
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1 edit | That is what I am worried about, as long as the carrier gets paid, that's OK with them.
The first number that started getting these spam months ago is a cell phone for the MIL, she never uses it, its just for emergency's. I wrote it off as crap meant for the previous owner of the number...413 330xxxx if anyone is interested.
Yesterday I got one on my cell, 413 330xxxx. Researched the number on the CID and found the sites above.
Today the spammers got to my VS number 413 315xxxx. The history of this and the websites that have popped up to log these calls does not bode well.
So Nitzan/Bruce/Brendan etc. Can these calls be tracked by your systems if something is setup so the public can log these calls ?
Edit to add, first 2 numbers are on the do not call list, third is not. |
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nitzan
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| said by Quattrohead :That is what I am worried about, as long as the carrier gets paid, that's OK with them. The ridiculous thing is, that US calls are so cheap, that the actual profit from such spammers is very small. They'll need to send millions of messages for the carrier to make any decent profit at all.
Yesterday I got one on my cell, 413 330xxxx. Researched the number on the CID and found the sites above.
Today the spammers got to my VS number 413 315xxxx. Both of these numbers show up as Omnipoint Miami E License, LLC. - so you found your underlying carrier.
So Nitzan/Bruce/Brendan etc. Can these calls be tracked by your systems if something is setup so the public can log these calls ? Depends what you mean by tracking. Eventually I see no option but to implement some sort of user-configurable (block or not, and at what level) spam filters, with user submitted numbers to be blocked - but that's a whole project in itself. (it'll have to be smart enough to figure out which numbers really are spam, and which numbers are just someone's ex-bf)
I'll add it to the wish-list. |
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