RE: [asterisk-users] Junk faxes
Unfortunately a lot of people don't bother to set TSI and have blocked Caller ID on their fax line so you would get false positives if you filtered out those faxes. I just did a HylaFAX install last week where the enduser was extremely pleased about the fax-to-email - when a junk fax came in (about 30% of their faxes!) she just deleted it from Outlook. She felt totally empowered. -Original Message- From: Doug Lytle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 8:29 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Junk faxes Hey everybody, I wanted to know what other may be doing to stem the flood of inbound junk faxes? We currently using Asterisk/iaxmodem/Hylafax for fax services and get a number of junk faxes daily. Most (If not all) of them have caller-id blocked and have a TSI of . I was hoping that, since we are using a PRI, there would be other information coming across that I could use to identify these spammers. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Junk faxes
Hey everybody, I wanted to know what other may be doing to stem the flood of inbound junk faxes? We currently using Asterisk/iaxmodem/Hylafax for fax services and get a number of junk faxes daily. Most (If not all) of them have caller-id blocked and have a TSI of . I was hoping that, since we are using a PRI, there would be other information coming across that I could use to identify these spammers. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Take a good look at the resources on the Internet for dealing with junk fax. The TCPA of 1991 made them essentially illegal. The 2005 update broadened the scope a bit, but there are still a bunch of rules you need to follow or you're subject to penalties. You can also do a much better job of getting caller-id by subscribing to an 800# service that puts ANI information in the caller-id field before delivering it to you; this assumes you're willing to pick up the tab for incoming calls. See http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/unwantedfaxes.html for more info. The biggest reason we still have junk faxes is that so few people make use of the available remedies. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again. - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Junk faxes
Joe Greco wrote: You can also do a much better job of getting caller-id by subscribing to an 800# service that puts ANI information in the caller-id field We have our own 1800 lines, hm I'll have to look into this. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Junk faxes
Doug Lytle wrote: Hey everybody, I wanted to know what other may be doing to stem the flood of inbound junk faxes? We currently using Asterisk/iaxmodem/Hylafax for fax services and get a number of junk faxes daily. Most (If not all) of them have caller-id blocked and have a TSI of . I was hoping that, since we are using a PRI, there would be other information coming across that I could use to identify these spammers. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Doug Is this an 800 number? If so, and maybe if your telco is very nice, you can get ANI. Toll free lines get ANI for billing purposes but it is much more useful than just billing. Sometimes you just have to request it. ANI cannot be blocked like callerID. If the spammers are sophisticated enough, they can still get around the ANI but I doubt they are. BTW OT from another thread, I upgraded IAXmodem and used the example Hylafax modem config files instead of using Hylafax's addmodem and things seem to be much better. Keeping my fingers crossed and will load first thing Monday. Thanks, Steve Totaro ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Junk faxes
Doug Lytle wrote: Joe Greco wrote: You can also do a much better job of getting caller-id by subscribing to an 800# service that puts ANI information in the caller-id field We have our own 1800 lines, hm I'll have to look into this. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Try dialing from a phone that lets you block callerid *67 + number with pri debug span x turned on. You will see all of the info that is being passed in the IEs. You may already have ANI enabled and not know it. Thanks, Steve ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [asterisk-users] Junk faxes
Steve Totaro wrote:
Try dialing from a phone that lets you block callerid *67 + number
with pri debug span x turned on. You will see all of the info that is
being passed in the IEs. You may already have ANI enabled and not
know it.
I'll give that a try when I have access to that feature.
As for ANI, I tried the NoOP(${CALLIERID(ANI)}) and it only showed my
cell phone caller-id. I wonder if that could be a feature of a PRI.
I'll have to talk to the phone admin.
Doug
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purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
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Re: [asterisk-users] Junk faxes
Steve Totaro wrote: Is this an 800 number? If so No, they do have 1 800 number though, but it goes to the main inbound number of the facility. BTW OT from another thread, I upgraded IAXmodem and used the example Hylafax modem config files instead of using Hylafax's addmodem and things seem to be much better. Keeping my fingers crossed and will load first thing Monday. Great! I love the package. Doug -- Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
