[asterisk-biz] ANI

[Miles Scruggs]

This belief is limited to your experience with PRIs.  When you obtain  
SIP termination services from ATT, Verizon, or Level 3.  They have no  
way of verifying what ANI/CID you are sending.  It doesn't matter if  
you are calling 800s or not, they bill it back to the CID that you  
pass (not to say that your carrier won't bill you as well since they  
see the calls go through their switches, but they more than likely  
won't see the reciprocal billing from the receiving LEC).  Want a  
proof of concept?  Setup an account with a small terminating provider  
like Junction networks, send all your calls out with the ANI of your  
cell phone. Last step will be to recoil in horror next time you open  
your cell phone bill. I'm not saying they can't track you down, or  
trace abuse back to you, since everything is logged, but very little  
verification happens.

If you are sending thousands of calls per day to a trunk that is  
outbound only, from thousands of different parties, you don't have to  
delve into to much logic to see the obvious result.

Cheer

Miles

On May 9, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Steve Totaro wrote:
> I may be wrong here but I do not believe that ANI can be spoofed.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_identification
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Totaro
>
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:03 AM,  <nigel.dennis at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> Mike... The reason why collection services, skip tracers and private
>> investigators ask to call back on their 800 toll free is simply  
>> because you
>> can not spood your ANI to a 800 #.
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: "Mike Hammett" <asterisk-biz at ics-il.net>
>> Reply-To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk
>> Discussion<asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>> To: <asterisk-biz at lists.digium.com>
>> Subject: [asterisk-biz] ANI
>> Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 08:29:48 -0500
>>
>> Is the CID of a call to a toll free number really the ANI,  
>> therefore not
>> spoofed or blocked?
>>
>> Someone who's opinion I respect said it generally is, but he wasn't  
>> sure.
>> Since I have a potential customer coming to me with an ANI  
>> requirement, not
>> a CID requirement, I figured I should make sure.
>>
>>
>> ----------
>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
>>
>>
>>
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