No different than any other network abuse mechanism and regulatory and legislative measures meant to control it.



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Midwest-IX
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From: "Jon Lewis" <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: "Matthew Black" <Matthew.Black@csulb.edu>
Cc: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 6:36:28 PM
Subject: Re: Phishing and telemarketing telephone calls

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Matthew Black wrote:

>
> Has anyone else noticed a steep decline in annoying phone calls since the FCC threatened legal action against three major VOIP gateways if they didn’t make efforts to prevent
> Caller ID spoofing from scammers?

Not that it's at all on-topic for NANOG, but no.  I still get numerous
"last chance to renew my car warranty" and whatever the scam is from the
credit card callers per day on both my home and cell numbers.

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