Now, calls that don't answer our IVR prompts get shunted to voicemail. We get a 
couple dozen blank voicemail recordings a day. I'm not sure if there's any 
audio stream present or not because they're coming in our TDM trunks and I'm a 
data guy. Not sure how to figure that out in Metaswitch SAS. 


Clearing the calls if they're silent sounds interesting. I'll look to see if we 
can do that. 


There's no carrier that's obvious. All over the country. Some are mobile caller 
IDs, some are not. Given that some are mobile, I'm assuming they're 
illegitimate calls because why would a bunch of random cell phones across the 
country be calling my 7-town ISP at all hours of the day and night? They 
wouldn't, so it's someone spoofing them. However, there's no one there, so what 
are they trying to scam me out of? 




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From: "Richard Jobson via VoiceOps" <[email protected]> 
To: "Carlos Alvarez" <[email protected]>, "VoiceOps" <[email protected]> 
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2022 2:26:23 PM 
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Empty Calls 



Hi Mike, 

When you have “empty” calls, do you still get some RTP? 
Have you tried recording any audio? 
Would setting the SBC to clear the call when silence detected, with a variable 
timer? 
Do they come from any particular carrier? 
Or NPA-NXX or IP address weighted? 

Sounds a nice Big data analysis challenge  


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From: VoiceOps <[email protected]> on behalf of Carlos Alvarez via 
VoiceOps <[email protected]> 
Reply-To: Carlos Alvarez <[email protected]> 
Date: Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 1:13 PM 
To: VoiceOps <[email protected]> 
Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Empty Calls 



Are they coming in via your carrier(s), or are they coming from random IPs? 





On Dec 11, 2022 at 1:09:28 PM, Mike Hammett via VoiceOps < 
[email protected] > wrote: 





Didn't even realize I had sent it already... 





We've been getting "empty" calls for years. BY empty, I mean there's no audio 
there at all. They're calls from all over the place (I don't think I've traced 
them all down). We've had them sit on the line for hours (back when our IVR 
permitted that). 



Okay, I'll just deal with it. Now they're hitting our customers too. 



To me, it's more annoying than active scam calls because there's doubt if it's 
real or not. I assume every call not from a current or prospective customer is 
a scam, so from the content, it's easy to tell. 





How are others handling these calls? 



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Mike Hammett 
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From: "Mike Hammett" < [email protected] > 
To: "Voiceops.org" < [email protected] > 
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2022 2:07:02 PM 
Subject: Empty Calls 

We've been getting "empty" calls for years. BY empty, I mean there's no audio 
there at all. 



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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
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Midwest Internet Exchange 
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