Re: OT: spam phone calls

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, uk.telecom.mobile, comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: OT: spam phone calls
Date	2025-05-07 22:34 +0200
Message-ID	<gosselxves.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink)
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Cross-posted to 3 groups.

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On 2025-05-07 16:20, Jason H wrote:
> On 3/20/25 15:21, Richmond wrote:
>> "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> On 2025-03-20 13:10, Graham J wrote:
>>>> I know you're all very knowledgeable here, so:
>>>
>>> There are groups more appropriate to phone trouble, like
>>> comp.mobile.android or uk.telecom.mobile. I have added them both to
>>> this post, so they will see your post below.
>>>
>>>> Received a call on my mobile, from a lady in Scotland who says I rang
>>>> her landline earlier this morning.  I did not, and my mobile phone
>>>> has been sitting on the windowsill (being the only place it can get a
>>>> signal) all morning, with nobody near it.  The lady used 1471 to find
>>>> out who had rung her number, and used it's recall facility to ring
>>>> me; so she didn't make any transcription error in dialling my number.
>>>> I'm aware that spammers spoof mobile numbers but had always assumed
>>>> that they chose unallocated numbers.  That is now apparently no
>>>> longer true - unless all you here can think of another way that the
>>>> 1471 service can see an erroneous number.
>>>
>>> I thought Britain had some new regulation about faking the A number in
>>> a call.
>>>
>>> I never return phone calls from unknown numbers. Only when I know the
>>> number is from some friend or family I return the call, but I prefer
>>> to let them try again, maybe they got interrupted.
>>
>> It doesn't yet cover spoofed mobile numbers in caller-id.
> 
> And not easy to enforce. I don't think there's anything in place 
> (software/infrastructure) to spot a fake number from real. It's the 
> bleeding obvious plague that no one saw coming -\O/-.

It can be done via regulation.

A major telephone provider has to accept connections coming from other 
provider. If that provider allows faked numbers, break the contract, no 
more calls coming from that provider. Block them all till they do something.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-20 15:00 +0100
  Re: OT: spam phone calls Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-03-20 15:21 +0000
    Re: OT: spam phone calls D <noreply@mixmin.net> - 2025-03-20 16:27 +0000
    Re: OT: spam phone calls Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-03-20 18:53 +0100
      Re: OT: spam phone calls Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-03-20 18:39 +0000
    Re: OT: spam phone calls Jason H <jason_hindle@yehoo.com> - 2025-05-07 15:20 +0100
      Re: OT: spam phone calls David Woolley <david@ex.djwhome.demon.invalid> - 2025-05-07 20:39 +0100
        Re: OT: spam phone calls Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-13 22:48 +1000
      Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-07 22:34 +0200
  Re: OT: spam phone calls David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2025-03-20 15:50 +0000
    Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-03-20 22:32 +0100
  Re: OT: spam phone calls Philip Herlihy <nothing@invalid.com> - 2025-03-21 12:18 +0000
  Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-09 12:50 +0200
  Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-13 15:09 +0200
    Re: OT: spam phone calls Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-05-13 16:08 +0200
      Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-13 20:37 +0200
        Re: OT: spam phone calls Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-05-13 21:27 +0200
    Re: OT: spam phone calls Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> - 2025-05-15 20:59 +1000
      Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-05-15 13:40 +0200
        Re: OT: spam phone calls JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2025-05-15 17:05 +0100

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