Oh, I believe it. Anything to make money, someone will do it. I suppose this could be used for CallerID dip revenue sharing as well, although certainly not as profitable. 2 seconds is about how long an analog phone takes to retrieve the CallerID.
I used to get generic Office Depot looking invoices addressed to my LLC, Accounts Payable. They were not large bills and had things like toner, paper, pens, or whatever. Total under $200. Total scam. I never ordered from these guys but I wonder how many larger companies get these small invoices with Net 30 terms and don't even question it. They just cut a check since it is a small amount and it would be a pain to track down who made the order or find a purchase order. If they can make a buck the easy way, they will. Thanks, Steve T On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Sahil Gupta <[email protected]> wrote: > Basically, what happens is these guys have numbers for expensive countries. > > They are usually countries either in Africa or South Pacific Islands. > > The idea of the model is to give missed calls to a range of numbers > across the world and hangup upon receiving a connect from the far end. > They make their money when the B-party decides to call the A-party > number back because they are concerned they will miss an important > call. > > Believe it or not there are a number of people doing it. > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Mobile Wi.Fi <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Hello Sahil, >> >> What is Audiotext numbers? >> >> On 2012-10-13 13:54, Sahil Gupta wrote: >>> >>> Sounds like someone is generating calls to Audiotext numbers. >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Mobile Wi.Fi >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Recently I have a strange request from a customer which whats an account >>>> just for making calls for 1 or 2 seconds :) >>>> but a daily traffic of 30000 calls per day all over the world. I have 2 >>>> problems with this: >>>> >>>> 1.) At this type of traffic how can I correctly charge them because >>>> there's >>>> some providers where this type of calls will be charged as an 1 minute >>>> call. >>>> 2.) Is obviously that i must activate concurrent calls on customer >>>> account >>>> to be able to archive 30000 requests per day, but our services is >>>> pre-payed >>>> and I want to deactivate account when the customer finished the amount of >>>> allowed calls. >>>> 3.) As they want world wide access can somebody recommend me how can i >>>> make >>>> conveyable fixed per minute rate in context of variable cost per >>>> different >>>> destinations. I presume i must make a flat rate based on weighted average >>>> formula adapted at your volume of call traffic. Do you use some tools to >>>> archive this type of request? >>>> >>>> Thank you. >>>> >>>> --- >>>> Regards, >>>> Mobile-Wi.Fi Team >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> _____________________________________________________________________ >>>> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >>>> >>>> asterisk-biz mailing list >>>> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >>>> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >> >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > > Sahil Gupta > Director > > Tigercom Pte. Limited > 998 Toa Payoh North #07-22/23 > Singapore 318993 > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz -- _____________________________________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-biz mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
