I am curious did the packit have any sound to it when your friend tried it out? I am assuming voip spam would have audio.
thanks
hank
----- Original Message ----- From: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: VoIP SPAM, what's next ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loek Gijben) writes:"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.
I got one the other day, but it turns out it was a buddy trying out his skills at generating UDP from a shell script.
I figure if voice spam gets to be a problem I'll simply use a whitelist arrangement where some aspect of the caller is looked up in an asterisk DB. Callers in good standing get to ring the phone. Others go to a voice-menu tree that asks them to press a certain key if they are a telemarketer, or calling for a political party, or collecting for a charity. They will then get a canned message to please put us in their do not call list. All other callers are encouraged to press a different key to ring through to me. Unlike email, phone calls are interactive and sorting the robo-caller from the real people shouldn't be hard. The only thing bugging me is, is there a law that would prevent a telemarketer from lying and pressing the key for "I am not a telemarketer".
-wolfgang
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