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

[Chris Shaw]

---- Original Message -----
From: "Walt Reed" <asterisk at linuxguy.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: VoIP SPAM, what's next ?


> On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:12:51PM -0700, Scott Laird said:
> > On Aug 10, 2004, at 1:14 PM, Loek Gijben wrote:
> > >"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.
> > >
> > Why stop there--you can beam pre-recorded messages to phones without a
> > person or phone line ever being involved.  You could send hundreds of
> > calls per minute without paying for more then a cheap PC and a T-1.
>
> Well, this seems like an DNSBL would be helpful. DNSBL's work quite well
> at shutting off the big spammer networks. VoIP spam from broadband / DSL
> / dialup shouldn't be as bad due to the limited bandwidth unless they do
> the backdoor / trojan / viruses like email spammers do.

And then when we start using DNSBL and VoIPAssassin we'll get calls like
this!

hey *random word* tried C*I*A*L*I*S Yet? *Random word*

*an entire dictionary of random words*

Hey cialis is great and blah blah blah check out this website SPAM *click*

jeezuz as if it isn't bad enough in e-mail... That would take like an hour
to read off...

-Chris