[asterisk-users] List of telemarketers??

[Steve Totaro]

Things that will make your idea difficult.

 

Although telemarketers are supposed to send their CallerID, many if not
most, I see "Unkown".  I believe this is illegal but I see it many times
a day.

 

I worked at a company with over one thousand toll free numbers, simply
changing outbound CallerID to another number defeats your scripts.  I
could also change the actual DNIS of these calls, so a telemarketer
could easily defeat your mechanism and still be legal.

 

I could also send any arbitrary ten digit CallerID and DNIS which looks
better to the callee than "Unknown" but cannot be associated to a
particular telemarketer.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro
http://www.asteriskhelpdesk.com/ 
KB3OPB
  

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From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Ritesh
Agrawal
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 4:38 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] List of telemarketers??

 

Thanks everyone for the responses, encouragement and offers to help.
I will get started on this shortly and circle back with you guys.
If someone has a starter list, it would help jump start the
efforts/motivation :-) 

Ritesh




On 5/9/07, Noah Miller <noahisaacmiller at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Ritesh -

> Does anyone know if there is a known list of telemarketers?
> Something like http://whocalled.us/ with an easier access?
>
> We could all benefit if there was such a thing :-) 
> If there is enough interest, I could put up a database that everyone
can
> benefit from.
>
> I just need some suggestions on:
> (1) Adding new numbers based on community responses (some rule to
sanity 
> check)
> (2) Method that everyone would prefer to access the dbase.

Wow, that's a generous offer.  I like the idea of a blacklist for
telemarketers.  It's bound to be more effective than an RBL for 
spammers!  One thing to note: this may end up being a non-US database.
Here in the US, I've experienced great success with the
www.donotcall.gov service.  If you're in the US and haven't signed up 
for this service, I'd highly recommend it.  Of course, there may be
non-telemarketer calls that it would be nice to be able to block.


- Noah
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