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Today's Topics:
1. Unethical telecom attorney (Mike Ray)
2. Re: Strange calling patterns (Ryan Delgrosso)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 12:25:15 -0500
From: "Mike Ray" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [VoiceOps] Unethical telecom attorney
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Anyone considering employing Barlow Keener as a telecom attorney may want to
contact me first.
Mike Ray, MBA, CNE, CTE
Astro Companies, LLC
11523 Palm Brush Trail #401
Lakewood Ranch, FL 34202
DIRECT: 941 600-0207
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 09:45:08 -0800
From: Ryan Delgrosso <[email protected]>
To: PE <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Strange calling patterns
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Yep, I'm willing to bet David hit the nail on the head, which was what I
had suspected but was curious if it was more wide-spread.
On 11/07/2012 07:16 AM, PE wrote:
> Ryan, did this clear up?
>
>
>
> On Nov 5, 2012, at 7:09 PM, Ryan Delgrosso <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> All,
>> So I know with the election tomorrow all bets are basically off for weird
>> calling patterns but I have seen some really strange stuff today and was
>> hoping someone else might have seen it as well or be able to validate some
>> theories.
>>
>> I had a number in a Michigan exchange receive 99,000 inbound calls in a
>> single hour (no that is actually ninety nine thousand) and that user had
>> their number forwarded off to another overloaded Michigan exchange so it
>> generated nearly a million outbound call attempts as my system attempted to
>> find an open trunk to get through. Earlier I had a similar case with a
>> Florida exchange where a single user received 150,000 calls in an hour all
>> with invalid source numbers, and all arrived through otherwise reputable
>> origination carriers (L3, Paetec etc).
>>
>> The commonality here is that in both cases the customer account had no
>> registered device and had forwarding setup, and the destination for both was
>> an overloaded exchange in a swing state. In all cases I have suspended the
>> accounts and stopped the traffic but it still doesn't give me the warm and
>> fuzzies.
>>
>> My first inclination is this feels like some kind of DDOS to hurt polling or
>> last minute campaigning since if the attempts were legitimate they wouldn't
>> be winning supporters by calling them 150,000 times but im really open to
>> ideas here.
>>
>>
>> Anyone out there with some experience or theories, feel free to chime in or
>> reply off list if paranoid.
>>
>> -Ryan
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