I have seen this as well, though with more malicious results such as 911 hangups with the customers callerID. I would love to hear any suggestions on tracing the malicious calls as well, since I know there are a lot of ITSP's that allow customers so send whatever callerID they want so this might be an exercise in futility. On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 23:35 -0500, Peter Beckman wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job
I have a customer who this is happening to. No clue how to track it or figure out who is doing it or how to get it to stop.
Total of 10 calls to the number in 3 months, now 188 calls since 2:47pm today, all with a pretty wide variety of callerIDs.
25 Voicemails left, only one actually didn't hang up, and they spoke spanish. It seems obvious to me that someone is doing a dialer with this number (not theirs) as callerID.
I can block it, but it seems to be a problem that continues to come up. Probably companies violating the telemarketing rules and trying to get away with it by using legit but not their CallerID.
Thoughts? I can provide the number privately if you want to see if YOUR customer(s) are doing this specific one.
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