[BC] ANI Faking

[Tom]

Spoof Caller ID - yes.  Spoof Switchgear controller - No.  If you did, 
you couldn't make the connection, because the switchgear wouldn't be 
looking at the right circuit.

Same as IP numbers - they're added AFTER the user input; system internals.

While YOU, the customer, may see spoofed - or non-existent - numbers, 
the switchgear, like the Internet Router, knows the truth.  And can be 
made to reveal what it knows... to the right people, in the right place, 
asking the right questions.

Like I said - complaints to the Attorney General's Consumer Affairs 
folks can and will yield results unpleasant to the spammer/telemarketer.

Jeff Orr wrote:
> Yeah, it is possible to fake what is sent. Back in my days prior to 
> broadcast engineering, I oversaw a large school district IP phone 
> system & network (cisco call manager). One of my first duties on the 
> job was to figure out why all calls from the district's administrative 
> center were "coming from a farm store 25 miles north". Well, an 
> installer goofed and entered the routing record as "nnn-745-XXXX" 
> instead of "nnn-754-XXXX". Because we used ISDN-PRI to interface with 
> the local TELCO, I can send whatever I please as ANI (CallerID) info. 
> We actually did this on purpose on occasion. We did not want people 
> calling back into the wrong building when we routed numbers across the 
> network and out the PRI. Therefore, I "spoofed" the callerID into to 
> show as the main dial-in number, or when a student dial-out system 
> called it showed the main district number.
>
> So... there are real reasons, but like everything else. People have 
> found ways to do bad things with it.
>
> Jeff
>
> ____________________
> Jeff Orr
> Communicorr, LTD.
> Broadcast Engineering * Enterprise Networking
> www.communicorr.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom [mailto:Radiofreetom at gmail.com]
>
> With enough occurrences, The New Ma Bell(tm) - and probably the others -
> can pull records; just like IP originating numbers, the actual
> origination number can't be spoofed - the switchgear HAS to "know" what
> circuit connects where at all times.  So hitting "send" and "disconnect"
>
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