Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2020-01-08 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Sat, 2020-01-04 at 16:32 +0200, Max Tulyev wrote: > > Also, we implemented immediate answer and voice menu option, it says > "Welcome, press ... to reach ...!" and circles. So me (as the telco > operator) receive the money for call termination, and real customer > do > not get a spam call. L

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2020-01-07 Thread Max Tulyev
Not only international call costs money (yes, it is extremely cheap SIP nowdays), but the time of call center operators costs money as well, And it is really not so cheap for the end customer (i.e. spammer), even in India. 20.12.19 19:56, Mark Milhollan пише: On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Keith Medcal

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2020-01-07 Thread Max Tulyev
I do that every time ;) As the owner of telco, I even get small money for this call termination. Also, we implemented immediate answer and voice menu option, it says "Welcome, press ... to reach ...!" and circles. So me (as the telco operator) receive the money for call termination, and real c

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Keith Medcalf wrote: On Friday, 20 December, 2019 10:57, Mark Milhollan wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Keith Medcalf wrote: You should ALWAYS talk to the call center behind the robocaller. The robocaller (the one playing the message) is relatively local and the cost of tha

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread bzs
━━━ > From: b...@theworld.com > To: "nanog" > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 5:11:17 PM > Subject: RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls > > > They should be fining the telcos, they're making a lot of money on > thes

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Timmins
On 12/20/19 9:00 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: I can't imagine many telcos are making a lot of money from voice anymore. We are. Not as much as the olden days, but we are. And a lot of companies charge surcharges to customers who have tons of short duration calls. Do the math on why, and who they'r

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/20/19 11:46 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:40 PM Michael Thomas wrote: SHAKEN is trying to solve e.164 problem which inherently hard and subject to a lot of cases where it fails. Their problem statement is worth the read if you're interested. I'll have to go r

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Friday, 20 December, 2019 10:57, Mark Milhollan wrote: >On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Keith Medcalf wrote: >>You should ALWAYS talk to the call center behind the robocaller. The >>robocaller (the one playing the message) is relatively local and the >>cost of that call is minimal. When you select to

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:40 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > > > On 12/19/19 9:14 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > >> Plus if it didn't work well/too cumbersome/etc with email, it probably > >> won't be any better with voice. We have lots of experience with what > >> doesn't work for email. > > I sort o

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/19/19 9:14 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: Plus if it didn't work well/too cumbersome/etc with email, it probably won't be any better with voice. We have lots of experience with what doesn't work for email. I sort of figured that the shaken/stir model that ( i happened to propose in their

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Mark Milhollan
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Keith Medcalf wrote: You should ALWAYS talk to the call center behind the robocaller. The robocaller (the one playing the message) is relatively local and the cost of that call is minimal. When you select to talk to the robocaller, that generates an international handoff

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Dan Hollis
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Mike Hammett wrote: So send them all to Lenny? I wish there was a phone app to do this. -Dan

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Paul Timmins wrote: The people handling these calls know exactly who their customers are, yep and they'd remove them in hours if a legal mandate came down to provide passthrough penalties for providing service to these people. the only penalties that would motivate them

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Mike Hammett
ember 19, 2019 6:09:32 PM Subject: RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls This, of course, will do no good. These so called "Robocalls" are exactly that. They generate a random number to call and play the silly canned message. If you press whatever the code is to tal

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Mike Hammett
ay, December 19, 2019 5:11:17 PM Subject: RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls They should be fining the telcos, they're making a lot of money on these calls. And if you believe otherwise (e.g., that it's like email spam) you've been duped by telco PR. Unlike

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 00:14:33 -0800, Large Hadron Collider said: > Is it legally a spoofed robo-call if I robo-call someone who has > consented to be robo-called, with the caller-ID of a number that is > affiliated with me but not with the telco I'm calling from? Every 8 weeks, the vampires at the

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Jared Mauch
There's a lot fewer cell companies than email providers. This may work to the advantage of consumers. Sent from my iCar > On Dec 19, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > Plus if it didn't work well/too cumbersome/etc with email, it probably won't > be any better with voice. We have lo

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Large Hadron Collider
Is it legally a spoofed robo-call if I robo-call someone who has consented to be robo-called, with the caller-ID of a number that is affiliated with me but not with the telco I'm calling from? On 19-12-19 09 h 09, Andreas Ott wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:16:08AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wr

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Christopher Morrow
> Plus if it didn't work well/too cumbersome/etc with email, it probably > won't be any better with voice. We have lots of experience with what > doesn't work for email. I sort of figured that the shaken/stir model that ( i happened to propose in their first meeting) of: "get the originator (han

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/19/19 6:52 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: On Thursday, 19 December, 2019 19:07, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:02:42 -0700, "Keith Medcalf" said: That stupid people do stupid things has no bearing on me. If there is a legal requirement for these people to be "notifying" t

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Thursday, 19 December, 2019 19:07, Valdis Kletnieks wrote: >On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:02:42 -0700, "Keith Medcalf" said: >> That stupid people do stupid things has no bearing on me. If there is >> a legal requirement for these people to be "notifying" then they are >> required to notify. >>

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 16:02:42 -0700, "Keith Medcalf" said: > That stupid people do stupid things has no bearing on me. If there is a > legal requirement for these people to be "notifying" then they are required to > notify. > I do not want to receive robocalls period. End of Line. No Exception.

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Keith Medcalf
Thursday, 19 December, 2019 16:38 >To: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls > >Perhaps list the phone number of your representatives or your state >attorney general's office in your domain contact info. > > >On Thu, Dec 19, 2

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Chad Dailey
Perhaps list the phone number of your representatives or your state attorney general's office in your domain contact info. On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 5:28 PM wrote: > > If you want to end robocalls then every time you get one call your > local congress person's or senator's main phone number and sa

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread bzs
If you want to end robocalls then every time you get one call your local congress person's or senator's main phone number and say "I just got another robocall (perhaps characterizing it like 'for auto warranties' or 'for IRS fraud')". Everyone. Every time. -- -Barry Shein Software Too

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Jeff Shultz
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 3:15 PM wrote: > > > They should be fining the telcos, they're making a lot of money on > these calls. > > And if you believe otherwise (e.g., that it's like email spam) you've > been duped by telco PR. > > Unlike spam when was the last time a telco failed to bill you for a

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Paul Timmins
On 12/19/19 6:11 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: They should be fining the telcos, they're making a lot of money on these calls. And if you believe otherwise (e.g., that it's like email spam) you've been duped by telco PR. Unlike spam when was the last time a telco failed to bill you for a billabl

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread bzs
They should be fining the telcos, they're making a lot of money on these calls. And if you believe otherwise (e.g., that it's like email spam) you've been duped by telco PR. Unlike spam when was the last time a telco failed to bill you for a billable phone call? Never. They know exactly who is

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Keith Medcalf
gt;Jeff Shultz >Sent: Thursday, 19 December, 2019 14:59 >To: North American Network Operators' Group >Subject: Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls > >On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 1:46 PM Rich Kulawiec wrote: >> >> [ Re-sent with proper headers.

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Thursday, 19 December, 2019 14:02, Michael Homas wrote: >There are robocalls that you want to get. Here in california, our >wonderful electric company sends out robocalls when they are going to >cut our electricity so they don't get blamed for burning down cities >(and then still manage to an

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/19/19 2:56 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: On Thursday, 19 December, 2019 13:57, Michael Thomas wrote: Plus if it didn't work well/too cumbersome/etc with email, it probably won't be any better with voice. We have lots of experience with what doesn't work for email. I really do not care. It

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Thursday, 19 December, 2019 13:57, Michael Thomas wrote: >Plus if it didn't work well/too cumbersome/etc with email, it probably >won't be any better with voice. We have lots of experience with what >doesn't work for email. I really do not care. It is my e-mail server. It is my telephone.

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 13:59:00 -0800, Jeff Shultz said: > I've occasionally thought that a tactical air strike on a couple of > call centers might just convince the others of the errors of their > ways. Having a US-owned A10 strafe a Philippines-based call center is probably a bad idea diplomatical

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Jeff Shultz
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 1:46 PM Rich Kulawiec wrote: > > [ Re-sent with proper headers. My apologies for the typo'd previous version. > ] > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:34:48AM -0800, William Herrin wrote: > > I don't want to start an arms race with the spam callers, I want to > > end it. That m

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Rich Kulawiec
[ Re-sent with proper headers. My apologies for the typo'd previous version. ] On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:34:48AM -0800, William Herrin wrote: > I don't want to start an arms race with the spam callers, I want to > end it. That means: jump directly to something they can't easily > defeat. It is

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Kevin Burke
ton Telecom 200 Church St, Burlington, VT -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Troy Martin Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2019 1:54 PM To: Keith Medcalf ; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls WARNING!! This message originated from an External

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/19/19 1:09 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: Bcc: Subject: Reply-To: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:34:48AM -0800, William Herrin wrote: I don't want to start an arms race with the spam callers, I want to end it. That means: jump directly to something they can't easily defeat. It is

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/19/19 11:27 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 11:02 -0800, William Herrin wrote: I call your phone number. Your phone company compares my number against your whitelist. Ring through on match. If no match, "You have reached Name. Press 2 to leave a message. Press 3 to ente

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/19/19 11:34 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:27 AM Brian J. Murrell wrote: On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 11:02 -0800, William Herrin wrote: I call your phone number. Your phone company compares my number against your whitelist. Ring through on match. If no match, "You have

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Michael Thomas
On 12/19/19 8:16 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: How is it envisioned that this will work? I mean, I'm all for less spam calling... and ideally there would be some form of 'source address verification' on the PSTN/phone network... but in today's world that really just doesn't exist and the motiva

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Troy Martin
ing my cell to continue to be a source of annoyance for the foreseeable future. -- Troy Martin | tmar...@charter.ca > -Original Message- > From: NANOG On Behalf Of Keith Medcalf > Sent: December 19, 2019 9:43 AM > To: Brandon Martin ; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: FCC p

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Keith Medcalf
On Thursday, 19 December, 2019 12:54, Dan Hollis wrote: >Fact is the telcos make lots of money off spoofed robocalls so they have >zero incentive to stop the practice. That is an easy one to solve. The telco simply needs to provide a free "Call Screening" service that you can activate on your

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Dan Hollis
there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. -Original Message- From: NANOG On Behalf Of Brandon Martin Sent: Thursday, 19 December, 2019 10:25 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed roboc

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:27 AM Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 11:02 -0800, William Herrin wrote: > > > > I call your phone number. > > Your phone company compares my number against your whitelist. Ring > > through on match. > > If no match, "You have reached Name. Press 2 to l

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 11:02 -0800, William Herrin wrote: > > I call your phone number. > Your phone company compares my number against your whitelist. Ring > through on match. > If no match, "You have reached Name. Press 2 to leave a message. > Press > 3 to enter your code. Press 0 or stay on the

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 9:25 AM Brandon Martin wrote: > Further, it's entirely normal and perfectly legitimate (to varying > degrees) for an outfit to purport in CID a number that is not directly > assigned to them nor which will actually result in a callback being > routed to them. Hi Brandon,

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Keith Medcalf
Behalf Of Brandon Martin >Sent: Thursday, 19 December, 2019 10:25 >To: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls > >On 12/19/19 12:09 PM, Andreas Ott wrote: >> I have also been told that there is no equivalent of uRPF in the phone &

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Brandon Martin
On 12/19/19 12:09 PM, Andreas Ott wrote: I have also been told that there is no equivalent of uRPF in the phone world. This is the biggest issue, and unfortunately (and my knowledge of the PSTN is admittedly a bit lacking, here), there's likely no good way to add it. Calls on the PSTN are r

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Andreas Ott
On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:16:08AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > How is it envisioned that this will work? My prediction for 2020: it still won't work, like in 2019 and the years before that. A call originated, transported and delivered equals revenue for all involved parties, so it is in the

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Christopher Morrow
ave these stopped. I received 10 of them yesterday, > pretending to be apple icloud support > > > > From: NANOG On Behalf Of Javier J > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:38 PM > To: Sean Donelan > Cc: nanog > Subject: Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed roboca

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread j k
8, 2019 8:38 PM > *To:* Sean Donelan > *Cc:* nanog > *Subject:* Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls > > > > It is so bad that I am not above us bribing politicians in > foreign countries to crack down on this. > > > > > > > > On T

RE: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Kain, Becki (.)
Would be nice to have these stopped. I received 10 of them yesterday, pretending to be apple icloud support From: NANOG On Behalf Of Javier J Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 8:38 PM To: Sean Donelan Cc: nanog Subject: Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls It is so bad

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-18 Thread Javier J
It is so bad that I am not above us bribing politicians in foreign countries to crack down on this. On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 3:37 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > > On Monday, U.S. FCC Chairman Pai and Canadian CRTC Chairperson Scott made > the first official cross-border SHAKEN/STIR call. > > https://

FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-12 Thread Sean Donelan
On Monday, U.S. FCC Chairman Pai and Canadian CRTC Chairperson Scott made the first official cross-border SHAKEN/STIR call. https://www.fcc.gov/document/pai-scott-make-first-official-cross-border-shakenstir-call Today, the U.S. FCC announced a proposed nearly $10 million fine for spoofed ro