Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do?

Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by Razengan on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:33PM (#25340479)

Regarding all the stories about this, with number spoofing and whatnot:

With all this surveillance and tracking going on everywhere at every level, are telecom companies seriously not able to see where someone is calling from??

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Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:08PM (#25348091)

Define "where someone is calling from". If the call is carried via VoIP, then all the phone company knows is who the VoIP provider is. The VoIP provider may know what account it is, but not who that is. Tracking it down to an actual human you can jail (or even sue) may not be easy.

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Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by aerosmile on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @12:52AM (#25355760)

"Not easy, but technically possible" is a very fertile ground for a startup.

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Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by aerosmile on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:08PM (#25341250)

The intuitive answer is - of course! But, as someone pointed out elsewhere, the technology stack really is 150 years old.

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Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by SheinhardtWigCo on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:18PM (#25341332)

They have never cared because there’s no profit in solving this problem.

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Re:Ask HN: Extremely brazen phone scammer – what to do? by dvtrn on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:14AM (#25342138)

Of course there is, ever ran an enterprise PBX and had to pay your telco for toll fraud after an extension and DID pair gets pwned? This still happens even in VoIP and SIP stacks.

Seen it first hand, one month, normal billing. Next month, $44,000k in fraudulent calls to and from Cape Town over an enterprise trunk thanks to a poorly configured ATA.

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