<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div></div>Telecommunications Act 1997 applies:<br><br><span lang="EN-AU">"The ACMA, carriers and carriage service providers
must do their best to prevent telecommunications networks and facilities
from being used to commit offences.</span>"<br><br></div><div>I'd say the telcos are due to be put on notice regarding the use of CLID spoofing.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div>Kind regards<br><br></div><div>Paul Wilkins<br></div><div><div><br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 May 2018 at 02:00, Paul Brooks <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au" target="_blank">pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 1/05/2018 7:19 AM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:<br>
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> This happens because people aren’t validating CLID on interconnects. It’s not really<br>
> about security and authentication of VOIP infrastructure. It came about because<br>
> people want to set CLID on outbound calls via carriers that don’t own their numbers.<br>
> In some ways it’s consumer/business friendly BUT abuse leads to phone calls being a<br>
> trashfire. In the US it’s meaning that some carriers run all calls through some<br>
> validation and present some info about whether it’s real or not or the likely actual<br>
> origin. T-Mobile are doing this - super helpful as you get info on whether it’s a<br>
> scam or not. HIGHLY recommend Australian carriers get onto this. It’s cut down the<br>
> amount of dodgy calls in the US a lot recently.<br>
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</span>Somebody is doing this in Australia. Don't know if it is activated by Optus, Samsung<br>
or Android OS, but occasionally an incoming call to my or SO's Galaxy mobile displays<br>
an alert something like 'Caution: Number may be Spam or Fraud' - and it is.<br>
<br>
This from 2016, indicates its been baked into Android and deployed to a wider range of<br>
handsets -<br>
<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/25/googles-android-phone-app-now-identifies-spam-callers/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://techcrunch.com/2016/<wbr>07/25/googles-android-phone-<wbr>app-now-identifies-spam-<wbr>callers/</a><br>
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Now if only we could get the landline CallerID display to do this...<br>
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Paul.<br>
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