Now obviously SOMEONE knows who to bill for the calls and that "someone" will be renting capacity from a major teleco. Presenting a fake CLID with an automated dialer should be grounds for instant termination of service but of course none of the UK telecos is willing to take the hit in revenue.
I applaud the decision BT Retail has taken but can't help feeling its going to have a limited effect as it doesn't address the main problem.
Aren't the vast majority of unwanted calls meant to originate from outside the UK?
OFCOM acknowledges this and also state that they account for a "significant and growing proportion of nuisance calls" when it comes to CLI spoofing.
Overseas calls is where TPS is useless and OFCOM are powerless to act.
Out of curiosity does the UK telco's benefit from overseas nuisance calls?
I applaud the decision BT Retail has taken but can't help feeling its going to have a limited effect as it doesn't address the main problem.
Ive no idea how spoofing can be stopped. As you say, the proposals doesn't tackle the whole issue. But I suppose something is better than nothing.
In a way, it sounds like what BT are doing could be the equivalent of SFS when it comes to forum spam.
SFS isnt fool proof and there are ways around it - such as the Indian guy sat in a cyber cafe working for peanuts. But even those do eventually get caught.
The spammers are constantly looking for new ids or new (proxy) IPs, but it only takes one member of SFS to report them, then they are flagged for all others. On the whole it works pretty well.
When it comes to forum spam, I not only access
project honeypot database, but have a honey pot running to catch bots and this info is fed to the main database. Over the past few years Ive caught 364125 bots (just checked my stats) which have been added to the central database.
I suppose this would be the equivalent to catching CLI spoofers. I wonder if there was any way some sort of honey pot could be set up for CLI spoofing. Your thoughts on this?
