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Re:FCC hits robocaller with agency's largest-ever fine of $120M by Shivetya on Saturday June 24, 2017 @07:40AM (#14625267)
Well Heather certainly loves to call me and its a combination of either using my area code and prefix or other companies randomly choosing long distance numbers.

I have noticed spoofing of 8 numbers as well. how do these get through the phone system, can't they detect ANI being bad at the source? I used to work for a company where we logged our workers on and off shift; rent a cop; based on the ANI data from the phone call. So I am really curious how this isn't blocked by entry into the system.

Re:FCC hits robocaller with agency's largest-ever fine of $120M by tyingq on Saturday June 24, 2017 @11:21AM (#14625864)
Some providers send an ANI that has nothing to do with the actual caller, and some allow it to send nothing at all. See http://www.oldskoolphreak.com/tfiles/voip/voipani.txt