[asterisk-users] Help Preventing Click to Call fraud on Asterisk Servers!

[Tim Panton]

On 31 Aug 2006, at 18:02, Marco Mouta wrote:

> Yeah,
>
> Could be a solution! Thanks for your reply.
>
> On 8/31/06, Henry J. Cobb <hcobb at io.com> wrote: "Marco Mouta"  
> <marco.mouta at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm developing a Click to call Website, but now i'm getting  
> worried with
> > Click to Call fraud.... Imagine I just create one of this  
> PhoneNumbers
> > (extra charged numbers: like games, erotic lines...) in a remote
> > country....
> > Then i just go to a click to call website and start an "attack"  
> inserting
> > this Special Phone Number like 1$/min. Even if i control call  
> duration on
> > asterisk, and also my recepcionist will notice this is a fraud  
> call, i'll
> > be
> > charged for the 1st minute every time....
>
> Why not exclude international and 809 outbound calls entirely and then
> bless specific countries as needed?
>
> You could include your phone number on your site so that people  
> from other
> countries could call your center as needed.


Or alternatively, don't call them back, just place the call from the  
users
desktop using VOIP and get use the 'toll free' internet model :-)



Tim Panton

www.mexuar.com