Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning

Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by loveistheanswer on Saturday February 27, 2021 @02:28PM (#26287428)

The vast majority of phone calls I receive are spam calls by people/robocallers which I did not give my phone number to, but apparently someone else did. I don't want people sharing my phone number with random other people

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by crazygringo on Saturday February 27, 2021 @04:58PM (#26288564)

Nobody had to give them your phone number.

They just dial numbers at random. Phone numbers aren't sparsely distributed. There are entire area codes that are essentially fully utilized.

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Re:Fake_contacts: Android app to create fake phone contacts,... by stjohnswarts on Thursday March 04, 2021 @10:50AM (#26343890)

I thought that the new challenge-response systems between providers (shaken-stir?) was supposed to take 99.9% of this. I guess I'm off to see if they have actually fully implemented it between providers.

Edit: looks like summer is the mandated time. From: wikipedia article on Stir/Shaken As of 2019, SHAKEN/STIR is a major ongoing effort in the United States, which is suffering an "epidemic" of robocalls.[1] Both the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and the Federal Communications Commission are requiring use of the protocols by June 30, 2021.[2][3]

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