So, when are we going to actually take away the ability to spoof your phone number?
Whatever utility that feature may have is clearly outweighed by all the harm it's causing. It's past time we get rid of it.
Whatever utility that feature may have is clearly outweighed by all the harm it's causing. It's past time we get rid of it.
Most of the responses I see so far don't seem to realise that world ever existed.
The bank/doctor/employer used to call from the local visible office. You'd know if it was the local bank branch, the nearby business office, the card, loan or mortgage centre as they'd all have different PBX spoofed numbers as it was constrained by the line groups. You wouldn't get to know from caller ID whose desk it was.
Let small businesses spoof the least significant digit - yes just ONE, and large businesses two digits. Then it can work like it was meant to, and we can have customer service again.
For $600/hr, I wouldn't mind to receive the spamming calls from them. Maybe some robo dialer might just be stupid enough to call? $$$$ :-)
The whole problem with robocalls is that your provider gets paid some small pittance to terminate the call, but gives none of that to you. Because they don't want to change, they drag their heels and complain and complain.
> The whole problem with robocalls is that your provider gets paid some small pittance to terminate the call, but gives none of that to you. Because they don't want to change, they drag their heels and complain and complain.
This must be the same logic used to allow for spam physical mail but laws against the virtual sort.
I made a deliberate effort to answer such calls on the first ring, thus costing them money by connecting the call, and after two weeks of that the calls stopped.
When we burn SS7 to the ground and start over, which will never happen in an era of WhatsApp/FB messenger/telegram/signal
"Hi, thanks for your enquiry about VoIP. Yes, we have a No Questions Asked policy and it'll be $5000 pcm plus $0.01 per second calls, we need the first $10 000 up front and you need to stay $1000 in credit or we pause service. OK?"
"What! That's crazy, we can't pay 1¢ per second, your competitor is ten times cheaper"
"And my competitor doesn't like spam. Either 1¢ per second is fine or you are wasting my time, get off the line. No questions asked is what you need, and that's what it costs. I paid $25 000 in fines just last week, that's a lot of seconds at one cent per second"
"I'll have you know we're a market leading direct sales business and every one of our calls is based on a legitimate sales lead, but I see your point, the $10 000 will be in your account first thing tomorrow".
Around the same time we can no longer spoof the From: in emails.
These 2 technologies are quite different, but similar in the way the architecture treats the originator. (i.e. there's no authentication or validation of the originator required)
I'm curious. What utility does spoofing a phone number have?
There’s probably a better solution.
People with multiple phone cards, but wanting callbacks in one place.
People with phone numbers belonging to another country.
Doctors responding to out of hours requests, but not wanting to share their direct contact.
Of course, why it was designed to allow spoofing of any number in the world, instead of only numbers in the same block...