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It's great that the FTC in the US rolled with the flood of scam calls and partnered with call blocking lists [0], but ignorant question--why are scammers able t
by z2 8y ago
It's great that the FTC in the US rolled with the flood of scam calls and partnered with call blocking lists [0], but ignorant question--why are scammers able to cycle through and commandeer and route through so many domestic phone numbers and remain untraceable to enforcement?
0: https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0548-blocking-unwanted-calls https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0548-blocking-unwanted...
Edit: Thanks for the pointers! Sorry this was a bit of a tangential question.
- philprx 8y agoThey often buy SIP services from VoIP operators, as a business, and cycle through the subscriptions. But it's a totally different problem than the problem depicted in this article.
- bostik 8y agoThere's a good practical look into how this works in Martin Vigo's talk.[0] 0: https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9383-compromising_online_accounts_by_cracking_voicemail_systems https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9383-compromising_online_account...
- bluGill 8y agoBecause once you get connected to the SIP network you are assumed trusted. Getting connected to the SIP network is easy and requires no verification.