Re: Sabotage: several severed cables at the origin of a major internet outage in France

2022-04-27 Thread Hank Nussbacher
source evokes with "the Obs" a "coordinated malicious act", which confirms SFR and Free affected. An investigation has been opened. https://www.nouvelobs.com/faits-divers/20220427.OBS57722/plusieurs-cables-sectionnes-a-l-origine-d-une-importante-panne-internet-en-franc

Re: FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

2022-04-27 Thread Abraham Y. Chen
Hi, Keith: The root cause of phone spam is because Caller-ID service was first deteriorated by a marketing gimmick that enabled the spoofing of the Caller-ID. Combined with eMail spam techniques, VoIP operations have now become out of hand. Below is an overview of these annoyances. This is a

RE: FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

2022-04-27 Thread Keith Medcalf
>With AT and perhaps others, you can forward the message to 7726 >(spells SPAM on the keypad) and they'll reply asking for the originating >phone number or email address. This is, of course, the root of the problem. The recipient of the spam does not know either the originating phone number

Re: FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

2022-04-27 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 4/27/22 15:33, Michael Thomas wrote: So I have a question. Suppose that I wanted to report a call as being spam to my provider, say. With email, I can just send them a message with the full headers since it's in my inbox. There isn't the equivalent for an inbox for voip, so that would

Re: FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

2022-04-27 Thread Michael Thomas
On 4/27/22 2:41 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: I've noticed a few (small number) of robocalls have started spoofing international phone numbers instead of local phone numbers.  I don't know if this is because telephone gateways are doing a better job at blocking neighbor caller ID spoofing -- or

FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

2022-04-27 Thread Sean Donelan
I've noticed a few (small number) of robocalls have started spoofing international phone numbers instead of local phone numbers. I don't know if this is because telephone gateways are doing a better job at blocking neighbor caller ID spoofing -- or something else.

Re: Sabotage: several severed cables at the origin of a major internet outage in France

2022-04-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
FR and Free affected. An investigation has been opened. https://www.nouvelobs.com/faits-divers/20220427.OBS57722/plusieurs-cables-sectionnes-a-l-origine-d-une-importante-panne-internet-en-france.html English language news article, fwiw: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/04/27/internet-multiple-

Re: Sabotage: several severed cables at the origin of a major internet outage in France

2022-04-27 Thread Paul Ferguson
uot;coordinated malicious act", which confirms SFR and Free affected. An investigation has been opened. https://www.nouvelobs.com/faits-divers/20220427.OBS57722/plusieurs-cables-sectionnes-a-l-origine-d-une-importante-panne-internet-en-france.html English language news article, fwiw: https:/

Sabotage: several severed cables at the origin of a major internet outage in France

2022-04-27 Thread Sean Donelan
onfirms SFR and Free affected. An investigation has been opened. https://www.nouvelobs.com/faits-divers/20220427.OBS57722/plusieurs-cables-sectionnes-a-l-origine-d-une-importante-panne-internet-en-france.html