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

[hank]

hello wolfgang.
I am curious did the packit have any sound to it when your friend tried it 
out?  I am assuming voip spam would have audio.
thanks
hank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <list+asterisk-users at lists.wsrcc.com>
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Re: VoIP SPAM, what's next ?


>
> 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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