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Similar, I used to work for a guard company. We implemented a process where employees reported to work by calling from an assigned set of phones at each client.
by Shivetya 9y ago
Similar, I used to work for a guard company. We implemented a process where employees reported to work by calling from an assigned set of phones at each client. they also signed out of work by calling from the same number.
needless to say we had all sorts of attempts to use other numbers but that never would work. since we had ANI numbers I doubt they could be spoofed.
now we never went as far as having them call in hourly, likely that would be dependent on client requirements. still I understand why the guy in the article was fired and honestly if he was skipping out then so be it
- nisse72 9y agoI thought this was normally done by requiring the guard to regularly scan special tags physically located around the premises being guarded (or previously, by keeping "watch clocks" wound). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_tour_patrol_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_tour_patrol_system
- JadeNB 9y ago> still I understand why the guy in the article was fired and honestly if he was skipping out then so be it Yeah, it's a shame that the framing of the article makes it sound like it's the blocking that was shady, rather than the fraud.
- djrogers 9y ago> since we had ANI numbers I doubt they could be spoofed. ANI is just the fancy name for what we call caller-id, it's not a special kind of phone number. It's also highly susceptible to spoofing...
- c22 9y agoAutomatic Number Identification (ANI) is not the same system as caller ID. ANI is used for billing purposes and is harder to spoof than CID. Caller ID uses in-band tones which is why it's so easily spoofed.