Re: OffTopic: Telecom Fraud

2019-04-23 Thread Mel Beckman
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Re: OffTopic: Telecom Fraud

2019-04-23 Thread Mel Beckman
Dovid, You are correct that your message is off topic. I respectfully ask that you honor the rules of this mailing list and refrain from off topic posts. They simply add noise to an otherwise useful and highly germane experts resource. -mel beckman On Apr 23, 2019, at 1:24 PM, Dovid Bender

Re: OffTopic: Telecom Fraud

2019-04-23 Thread Dovid Bender
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 4:18 PM Paul Timmins wrote: > I guarantee you that if carriers were made civilly or criminally liable > for allowing robodialers to operate on their network, this sort of issue > would end practically overnight. Robodialer calling patterns are > obvious, and I'd imagine

Re: OffTopic: Telecom Fraud

2019-04-23 Thread Paul Timmins
I guarantee you that if carriers were made civilly or criminally liable for allowing robodialers to operate on their network, this sort of issue would end practically overnight. Robodialer calling patterns are obvious, and I'd imagine any tech could give you a criteria to search for in the CDR

Re: OffTopic: Telecom Fraud

2019-04-23 Thread Valdis Klētnieks
On Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:55:43 -0400, Dovid Bender said: > day). but at the very least why can't Verizon drop these calls at their > edge. If they see the B-Number as being their client and the A number being > theirs but coming from elsewhere why can't they just drop the call? Probably for the

OffTopic: Telecom Fraud

2019-04-23 Thread Dovid Bender
Hi All, I am wondering if a bit of public shaming may help. I every so often get calls from the "verizon wireless fraud prevention dept". It's scammers calling me (and others) telling them there was fraud on their account. This gets people worked up and fooled into giving out data that they