[Asterisk-Users] Re: VoIP SPAM, what's next ?

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Loek at Gijben.nl (Loek Gijben) writes:
> "hank" <hank at hanksmith.net> wrote:
> > voip spam?
> > I have never gotten any yet.
> 
> It's is just waiting for the first one to arrive..
> The mechanics are just too appealing for spam-like businesses.

I got one the other day, but it turns out it was a buddy trying out
his skills at generating UDP from a shell script.

I figure if voice spam gets to be a problem I'll simply use a
whitelist arrangement where some aspect of the caller is looked up in
an asterisk DB.  Callers in good standing get to ring the phone.
Others go to a voice-menu tree that asks them to press a certain key
if they are a telemarketer, or calling for a political party, or
collecting for a charity.  They will then get a canned message to
please put us in their do not call list.  All other callers are
encouraged to press a different key to ring through to me.  Unlike
email, phone calls are interactive and sorting the robo-caller from
the real people shouldn't be hard.  The only thing bugging me is, is
there a law that would prevent a telemarketer from lying and pressing
the key for "I am not a telemarketer".

-wolfgang
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