[Asterisk-Users] VoIP Spam (was VoYP.Net)

[Matt Riddell]

One of the telemarketing companies I work for uses VOIP for everything, so
bandwidth isn't an issue (they are terminating to PSTN in other countries).

Having sent the post I realised that DNC registries are controlled by
individual countries' law and so making a worldwide one would be next to
impossible to enforce.

If one country decided it would get more money by not prosecuting people
(who call without first scubbing against dnc), it would get more business.

So...I guess in the end, unless we have a worldwide police force etc, it's
not going to happen.

Matt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Retkowski" <greg at rage.net>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] VoIP Spam (was VoYP.Net)


> Luckily VoIP telemarketing is much higher sender/recipient
> (bandwidth/resource) expense ratio than email spam.. Until of course they
> figure out how to make VoIP-spam worms to infect a bunch of windows boxes.
>
> I bet that VoIP spammers will have the same immpecable ethical standards
> as their email counterparts, making it difficult to implement do-not-call
> for voip.
>
> Databases aside, nothing prevents them from 'wardialing' sip
> @fwd.pulver.com or other providers to build telemarketing lists. I suppose
> it's a looming issue that'll only be a matter of time before becoming
> serious.
>
> Press 1 for viagra, 2 for male enhancement, or 3 for girls-gone-wild.
>
> -- Greg
>
> Greg Retkowski /     I.T. Infrastructure Consultant       /)/|//`
> greg at rage.net  http://www.rage.net/~greg/ C:408-455-3913 /|/ /_/
>
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Matt Riddell wrote:
>
> > Only problem I can see if that currently, I can search for a or e
etc...if
> > this gives me a list of urls/numbers, what is to stop me feeding them
into a
> > database to telemarket to them?
> >
> > As far as I'm aware there is no internation Do Not Call registry for
> > internet based calls...
> >
> > Anyone know anymore about this?
> >
> > Anyone keen to help with this?
> >
> > Would it be worthwhile?
> >
> > Is there another?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > P.S. I don't really want to do it but someone should and if noone else
wants
> > to, I will...
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