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

[Walt Reed]

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.