---- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Reed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:34 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: VoIP SPAM, what's next ?
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:12:51PM -0700, Scott Laird said: > > On Aug 10, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Loek Gijben wrote: > > >"hank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>voip spam? > > >>I have never gotten any yet. > > > > > >It's is just waiting for the first one to arrive.. > > >The mechanics are just too appealing for spam-like businesses. > > > > > Why stop there--you can beam pre-recorded messages to phones without a > > person or phone line ever being involved. You could send hundreds of > > calls per minute without paying for more then a cheap PC and a T-1. > > Well, this seems like an DNSBL would be helpful. DNSBL's work quite well > at shutting off the big spammer networks. VoIP spam from broadband / DSL > / dialup shouldn't be as bad due to the limited bandwidth unless they do > the backdoor / trojan / viruses like email spammers do. And then when we start using DNSBL and VoIPAssassin we'll get calls like this! hey *random word* tried C*I*A*L*I*S Yet? *Random word* *an entire dictionary of random words* Hey cialis is great and blah blah blah check out this website SPAM *click* jeezuz as if it isn't bad enough in e-mail... That would take like an hour to read off... -Chris _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
