[AusNOG] "Telstra" scammers

[Noel Butler]

On 19/02/2021 06:54, Mark Andrews wrote:

> Well at least with the NBN rollout basically done I haven't heard from 
> "Nicole from NBN"
> saying my phone is going to be cut off if I don't do something in a 
> while.
> 
> Whats needed is a simple way to report "the last call to this line was 
> a scam" so the
> calls can be traced back to their source along with a legislated 
> requirement to follow
> the call trail back to its source.   I get several calls like this a 
> day from
> "Telstra NBN", "Mastercard Visa", "E-Bay and suspicious iPhone 
> purchase", etc.  It's
> so common that my wife looks at the caller-id and says "It's your 
> girlfriend calling
> again" from the number of times Nichole called.
> 
> Unfortunately I need to field calls from unknown numbers for new 
> members for Scouts, etc.

I set freepbx up on a pi for my parents, didn't take much creativeness 
to block them, they havent been bothered since, a quick look now in 
their CDR, seems to still block average 3 calls a weekday

-- 
Regards,
Noel Butler

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