The mobile carriers do this today via parties like First Orion, Hiya, TNS, while YouMail and a few others do this for consumers/wholesale carriers/enterprises. There are problems with false positives and redress. Sadly, STIR/SHAKEN didn't end spoofing, and it's still possible for a bad actor to sully the reputation of a legitimate party. That's why they set up freecallerregistry.com to help people get their "SCAM LIKELY" caller ID fixed. The system you're describing takes money to operate and maintain. Who is going to pay for it? On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 2:19 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn <aaron@heyaaron.com> wrote:
Seems like it would be a lot easier to get AI to write a simple app where people can dump known-bad numbers in, and automatically exchange them with other people...sorta like how it gets handled in the email world.
It can be up to the receiving phone system to do something with it--drop the call, challenge the user to solve 3+4, mail in picture of them with a copy of their phone bill while holding a copy of tomorrow's newspaper signed and witnessed by a notary, etc...
-A
On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 1:59 PM Calvin E. <calvine@gmail.com> wrote:
Now you get to crowdsource/lobby your state Attorney General to have the Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force do something.
https://www.naag.org/our-work/center-for-consumer-protection/consumer-file-a...
https://www.naag.org/find-my-ag/
While also CC'ing anything relevant to the FCC & FTC.
It may take a critical mass of consumers/business owners in multiple states to get anything done about the Google Listings spam.
On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 1:46 PM Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps < voiceops@voiceops.org> wrote:
The tracebacks.org route was killed pretty quick.
Their response:
Thank you for the information. Tracebacks are generally run based on evidence acquired from ITG members, enterprise partners, or government partners, including data analytics companies, about illegal call campaigns, so that our team can best prioritize tracebacks to ensure the greatest impact. To ensure the broadest impact, the ITG typically cannot run tracebacks based on a request from any individuals or enterprises. We recommend that you provide this information via complaints to the FCC, FTC, Law Enforcement and/or the office of your state attorney general. Such authorities often aggregate complaints and make referrals to the ITG based on what they are seeing most impacting consumers, in turn helping our team prioritize accordingly.
-A
On Wed, Mar 18, 2026 at 9:04 AM Kili Land <kili.land@gtt.net> wrote:
Submit traceback requests: https://tracebacks.org/traceback-requests/
The form allows multiple entries
*From:* Aaron C. de Bruyn via VoiceOps <voiceops@voiceops.org> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 18, 2026 10:23 AM *To:* voiceops@voiceops.org *Subject:* [VoiceOps] Spamming for a week: 463-20X-XXXX
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A bunch of numbers out of Indiana have been spamming my customers for about a week.
Most are automated recordings about how your Google business listing is wrong and needs to be fixed so customers can find you. Sometimes it's a human prefixed by the telltale "BWOOP" sound.
+14632000068 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN +14632001925 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN +14632004002 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN +14632005772 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN +14632006038 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN +14632006422 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN +14632006730 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN +14632009587 - BANDWIDTH.COM CLEC LLC IN +14632018300 - BHN IP ENABLED SERVICES LLC +14632018413 - BHN IP ENABLED SERVICES LLC +14632018586 - BHN IP ENABLED SERVICES LLC +14632018682 - BHN IP ENABLED SERVICES LLC +14632027042 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen) +14632027073 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen) +14632027200 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen) +14632027252 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen) +14632027397 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen) +14632027539 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen) +14632027678 - LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen) +14632027899 -LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LLC IN (Lumen) +14632030946 - METROPCS INC (T-Mobile US)
Kinda hard to believe the big boys haven't caught this abuse of their network yet.
I tried reporting the numbers to bandwidth.com (as ID'd by telcodata.us), but their form only allows for a single entry at a time, and it says most of the numbers don't belong to them. Either their form is broken or telcodata.us is out of date.
I can't find a reporting for Level3/Lumen. They seem to be geared towards "I'm a customer and need help figuring out the star code to block calls".
-A
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