> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dean Willis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In some sectors, providers have financial incentives to do just the
> opposite. Lots of US carriers made money charging victims that had
> been tricked into calling those expensive Carribbean premium lines.
>
> See:
>         http://www.scambusters.org/ScamBusters8.html

Well, it sounds to me like that scam was of a different type: the user 
explicitly calling a number which was billed higher than the user expected.  
They reached the number they dialed.  That's a billing problem, not a routing 
problem. (and btw, "US" carriers didn't make money off that, afaict - Caribbean 
ones maybe, but for the US carriers I bet it cost more money in customer 
service issues than it made)


> While this has gotten better recently (which could be your market
> forces at work), I have been in many discussions around 3GPP and OMA
> where people expressed concerns that 302 handling could engender a new
> wave of such problems.

No doubt they can, and probably will.  It's handled by policies, and such 
policies can be mis-configured and/or abused.  Such is also the case on user 
endpoints, of course.

-hadriel

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