Hey all, just wondering slash curious about something. I have a client who had their domain pseudo-typosquatted and whomever is behind it went as far as registering a toll free number with a professional sounding AutoAttendant referencing the victim company's name and the owner on a dial by name directory. There are no accents/typos in the autoattendant and dialing an extension, as we all can imagine, is likely being call forwarded or trunked elsewhere. In any event, I would like to track down what carrier is responsible for the number but have had no luck asking/enquiring/etc to my carriers (big 3-4 Level, VZ, Global, Paetec)... Any takers on tracking who owns this number? -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J. Oquendo SGFA, SGFE, C|EH, CNDA, CHFI, OSCP, CPT, RWSP, GREM "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." - Warren Buffett 42B0 5A53 6505 6638 44BB 3943 2BF7 D83F 210A 95AF http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2BF7D83F210A95AF
You can find out the resporg by dialing 800-337-4194. It'll give you the Resporg ID, carrier and the support number associated with that company. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:53 AM, J. Oquendo <sil at infiltrated.net> wrote:
Hey all, just wondering slash curious about something. I have a client who had their domain pseudo-typosquatted and whomever is behind it went as far as registering a toll free number with a professional sounding AutoAttendant referencing the victim company's name and the owner on a dial by name directory. There are no accents/typos in the autoattendant and dialing an extension, as we all can imagine, is likely being call forwarded or trunked elsewhere.
In any event, I would like to track down what carrier is responsible for the number but have had no luck asking/enquiring/etc to my carriers (big 3-4 Level, VZ, Global, Paetec)... Any takers on tracking who owns this number?
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." - Warren Buffett
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That below number is the Ameritech RESPORG ID service and I recommend it too. The two main issues are that it only gives you a generic code (which you can usually look up here: http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/resporg/resporg-ids.html), and that "native" numbers (ones owned by certain carriers in certain ranges) get a "not in the DB" response. Another RESPORG lookup number is the following one from Sprint, but this gets you to a person, not an automated system, and only during business hours: (800) 578-1000 If you pay someone to act as your RESPORG, you should also be able to contact them and ask them to look it up. Good luck, -Scott From: voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org [mailto:voiceops-bounces at voiceops.org] On Behalf Of Jared Geiger Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:39 PM To: J. Oquendo Cc: voiceops at voiceops.org Subject: Re: [VoiceOps] Rogue 800 number You can find out the resporg by dialing 800-337-4194. It'll give you the Resporg ID, carrier and the support number associated with that company. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 11:53 AM, J. Oquendo <sil at infiltrated.net> wrote: Hey all, just wondering slash curious about something. I have a client who had their domain pseudo-typosquatted and whomever is behind it went as far as registering a toll free number with a professional sounding AutoAttendant referencing the victim company's name and the owner on a dial by name directory. There are no accents/typos in the autoattendant and dialing an extension, as we all can imagine, is likely being call forwarded or trunked elsewhere. In any event, I would like to track down what carrier is responsible for the number but have had no luck asking/enquiring/etc to my carriers (big 3-4 Level, VZ, Global, Paetec)... Any takers on tracking who owns this number? -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ J. Oquendo SGFA, SGFE, C|EH, CNDA, CHFI, OSCP, CPT, RWSP, GREM "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." - Warren Buffett 42B0 5A53 6505 6638 44BB 3943 2BF7 D83F 210A 95AF http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get <http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x2BF7D83F210A95AF> &search=0x2BF7D83F210A95AF _______________________________________________ VoiceOps mailing list VoiceOps at voiceops.org https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/voiceops
If you have the ability, dip the number to see the carrier. Then you'll have to contact them, though I wouldn't know if they'd willingly release that information. Perhaps a RESPORG would have more tools to do something, I'm just looking at it from a LEC perspective. -Aaron On 1/31/2012 8:53 AM, J. Oquendo wrote:
Hey all, just wondering slash curious about something. I have a client who had their domain pseudo-typosquatted and whomever is behind it went as far as registering a toll free number with a professional sounding AutoAttendant referencing the victim company's name and the owner on a dial by name directory. There are no accents/typos in the autoattendant and dialing an extension, as we all can imagine, is likely being call forwarded or trunked elsewhere.
In any event, I would like to track down what carrier is responsible for the number but have had no luck asking/enquiring/etc to my carriers (big 3-4 Level, VZ, Global, Paetec)... Any takers on tracking who owns this number?
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