The downside is that this regulation then legally prevented AT&T from blocking phone calls even when those calls are known to be spoofed or spam. Government and AT&T is that all calls would be accepted, even calls from competing providers. He talked about the breakup of AT&T and the associated government regulation, and how those two events have had unintended consequences today, like enabling caller ID spoofing and robocalling.
Number Spoofing is a Side Effect of the Ma Bell BreakupĪt Hope XII, gave a talk about robocalling and the history of the phone system. There is some irony that the automatically switched telephone network was invented to defeat fraud, and today it’s also used to commit fraud. His invention eventually became the rotary dial phone and switching system.
The other undertaker was , and once he caught on to what was going on, he started working on a way to route phone calls without going through an operator. The town’s telephone operator was married to one of the undertakers, and she would routinely send business to her husband. The story often told is that Kansas City had two undertakers in the late 1800s. This sounds like the plot of a budget horror movie, how am I being called from a disconnected number? Rather than a phantom in the wires, this is robocalling, combined with caller ID spoofing.Īutomated phone switching is an impressive beast.
Each time, the message is that this number has been disconnected and is no longer in service. These calls are either just dead air, or recordings that start with “Please don’t hang up.” Out of curiosity, I’ve called back on the number the call claims to be from. Over the last few months, I’ve noticed extra calls coming in from local numbers, and if you live in the US, I suspect maybe you have too.
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