[asterisk-biz] Fraud

[Mike Lynchfield]

this wont work as stated the calls are being doen via fake accounts of real
users ( stolen cards, stolen paypals etc)

meaning you will get the chargeback /deduction from your account and still
pay fees to qwest /level3 etc.. that how some go belly up.


This way you block them BEFORE you actually incur charges.


On 6/6/06, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk at mikefedyk.com> wrote:
>
> Paul wrote:
> > I would like to get some of those numbers and do rate checks with
> > voicepulse and plainvoip using the macros they provided. It seems to me
> > that the upstream provider should be the one to prevent these calls from
> > going through.
> Actually, that is a great idea.
>
> Mark those numbers so that they have some high rate like $10 per minute
> so that the call won't go through you.  Also play a message "you may
> have high charges calling this number" if they haven't checked the rate
> for the number before dialing.
>
> That way, it is the customer's choice to dial the number or not and the
> worst you can be accused of is warning your customers if they don't have
> their systems setup to check the rate before dialing.
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