Ah no, you're looking for the Identity header. Not PAI.

> On Mar 18, 2026, at 11:58 AM, Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I forgot Twilio lets you download PCAPs of calls.
> 
> I grabbed one at random:
> P-Asserted-Identity: <sip:[email protected]:5060>
>     SIP PAI Address: sip:[email protected]:5060
>         SIP PAI User Part: +14632018300
>         E.164 number (MSISDN): 14632018300
>         SIP PAI Host Part: 206.147.72.38
>         SIP PAI Host Port: 5060
> 
> -A
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 8:44 AM Aaron C. de Bruyn <[email protected]> wrote:
> I did NOT know that. :)
> I'm not a telco or service provider.  Just part of a company that's 
> unfortunate enough to help a handful of customers manage their own internal 
> Asterisk or FreePBX systems.
> 
> Most of my customers use Twilio upstream.  I don't think Twilio logs that 
> header, and I don't see anything like it in the Asterisk logs.  (Not sure if 
> it even gets passed to us or if it just doesn't logs it.)
> 
> -A
> 
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 8:36 AM Mark R Lindsey <[email protected]> wrote:
> So...did you get any Identity headers?  A traceback with ITG, or maybe an 
> Identity header, is your only hope for tracing the origin.
> 
> I'm including the below, not to say that you, Aaron, don't know this, but 
> just in case it's valuable to anyone else reading:
> 
> In the case of your first number, it  belongs to a thousand block assigned 
> initially to Bandwidth.com...but that's not even meaningful for routing a 
> call to them today. You'd have to do an LRN lookup to find out how to deliver 
> a call back to the legitimate owner of this number.
> 
> I did an LRN lookup for that first one, and it's currently ported to Onvoy, 
> one of the brands of Sinch. But again, that only tells us how to get a call 
> TO that legitimate owner.
> 
> What you want to know is how they're sending calls to you. And if you're 
> getting an Identity header it would be at least interesting.
> 
> Failing that, you can file a report with the Industry Traceback Group to 
> report illegal calls: 
> https://tracebacks.org/traceback-requests/
> 
> Mark R Lindsey | +1-229-316-0013 | [email protected] | LinkedIn
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 18, 2026, at 11:22, Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> A bunch of numbers out of Indiana have been spamming my customers for about 
>> a week.
>> 
>> Most are automated recordings about how your Google business listing is 
>> wrong and needs to be fixed so customers can find you.  Sometimes it's a 
>> human prefixed by the telltale "BWOOP" sound.
>> 
>> +14632000068 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN
>> +14632001925 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN
>> +14632004002 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN
>> +14632005772 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN
>> +14632006038 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN
>> +14632006422 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN
>> +14632006730 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN
>> +14632009587 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN
>> +14632018300 - BHN IP ENABLED SERVICES LLC
>> +14632018413 - BHN IP ENABLED SERVICES LLC
>> +14632018586 - BHN IP ENABLED SERVICES LLC
>> +14632018682 - BHN IP ENABLED SERVICES LLC
>> +14632027042 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen)
>> +14632027073 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen)
>> +14632027200 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen)
>> +14632027252 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen)
>> +14632027397 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen)
>> +14632027539 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen)
>> +14632027678 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen)
>> +14632027899 -LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen)
>> +14632030946 - METROPCS INC (T-Mobile US)
>> 
>> Kinda hard to believe the big boys haven't caught this abuse of their 
>> network yet.
>> 
>> I tried reporting the numbers to bandwidth.com (as ID'd by telcodata.us), 
>> but their form only allows for a single entry at a time, and it says most of 
>> the numbers don't belong to them.  Either their form is broken or 
>> telcodata.us is out of date.
>> 
>> I can't find a reporting for Level3/Lumen.  They seem to be geared towards 
>> "I'm a customer and need help figuring out the star code to block calls".
>> 
>> -A
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