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Re:I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam by laumars on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:15AM (#13597666)
A word of warning for the author: phone numbers can be easily spoofed (like you can spoof the sender email address or the originating IP in a UDP packet). What's more, many scam calls do use spoofed phone numbers. Thus the number you might be flooding may not be the originating caller. This could turn your utility into something far more malicious than was originally intended.
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Re:I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam by Nursie on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:25AM (#13597711)
I think this is aimed at viruses/scam popups etc that say "You have a virus! Call Windows support at this number now!"

In that case we can be pretty sure the number is correct.

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Re:I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam by laumars on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:37AM (#13597754)
Ahh I missed that part. Appologies.
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Re:I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam by diamondo25 on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:26AM (#13597714)
Yes, but also get the ball rolling to also improve this system in the world. Companies do not care that systems are vurnable until it really affects them. Just look at the botnets from vilnerable IoT devices waking up parties so they start to protect them. Same with phones and their support periods...
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Re:I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam by laumars on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @07:33AM (#13597746)
Blackhats don't tend to publish their work in a way that is traceable back to their person. If this system gets abused then the OP becomes liable. This was why I raised my warning to the author specifically - albeit I couldn't have made my point about the legal consequences of abuse clearer in my previous post.
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Re:I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam by zeure on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @10:25AM (#13598915)
Were a lot of those insecure IoT companies attacked by those botnets? If not, I still don't think much will change.
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Re:I am going to eradicate the inbound Windows Support scam by nommm-nommm on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @12:14PM (#13599976)
This is not for incoming calls, it's for outgoing calls.
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