Mike Johnston wrote: > I serve a rural area. I do the technical "make it work" stuff. I'm > generally only involved in the business dealings insofar as determining > technical incompatibilities (draw 7 red lines, all perpendicular, some > with green ink and some with transparent). That said, please forgive > any errors in what I say, and feel free to correct me.
This was all super interesting and helpful; thanks! > I try to find numbers that go to IVRs, fax numbers, automated airport > weather numbers, etc. Anything that doesn't involve bothering a human > over and over. It has to be with the same OCN though, and generally > needs to be in the same NPA-NXX too. Yes; correct. In this particular instance, a county library system that we service a lot of branches for was having trouble calling a particular branch that lies outside of our service area. I knew that branch's operating hours, and they have an answering machine, so I would run my tests while they were closed. > These are generally fake voicemails. Just a recording of some voicemail > intro, to make you think you hit a voicemail box. The call hasn't > actually been mis-routed. It hasn't been "routed" anywhere, other than > to an audio file. I suspected it was either this, or it was hitting a genuine voicemail system that was perhaps misconfigured and accepting calls for any RDNIS / voicemail boxes it received. Though I guess if I'd thought about it for 2 seconds, if it had actually been AT&T's voicemail system, then it would have told me that the destination mailbox in question had not yet been initialized / set up. > Are you sure it actually rang a line at some business? Or maybe it was, > again, just an audio file? Some wav file on a server at Bob's Shady > Long Distance Shack? [...] > I would argue it is fraud. But again, prove to me they are actually > "routing" to any number, and not some audio file. Fair point. I don't actually know. -- Nathan _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps@voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
