Setup a 1-900 number and redirect that number when it calls in and make some money? :) ... You can't block the caller in the BPX?
— Sent from Mailbox On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote: > OK, this is kind of OT, but maybe someone here knows the answer. > For a few months now, we've been randomly getting long voicemail messages, > always some guy blabbing about government programs and stuff, almost sounds > like a radio show, not a political message like a robocall, I'm guessing > just constant voice to keep silence detection from ending the message. > I'm sure it's either a scam, or some attempt at toll fraud, but I can't > figure it out. The calls come at all hours but mostly at night, and the > caller ID will say something like NEW YORK NY or SAN ANTONIO TX. > I was just looking at our Windstream bill (they redirect our toll free > number because years ago we got that number from McLeod), and I realized > these calls are coming in on our toll free number. Which is really just an > alias for our local DID which goes to our VoIP PBX. Which had the max > message size at default 60 minutes. So these messages were all 60 minutes > long. I've changed the setting to 10 minutes, but that's still 10 minutes > of toll free word salad. > I can't figure out who is benefitting from these calls other than > Windstream. It's not a ton of money, but I want to stop it. The calling > numbers vary so I can't just block them. I looked up a couple of the > numbers and they seem to be from bandwidth.com thousand blocks, so > apparently VoIP calls, but I'm not sure that means anything other than VoIP > makes it easier to fake the caller ID. > What are these guys up to?
