Re: Phishing and telemarketing telephone calls

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

> https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/how-to-shake-down-robocallers-and-robotexters-for-fun-and-profit/

I absolutely endorse this idea. Very early in my career, I worked for a
shop that provided network/IT services for a bottom tier debt collector,
one of the early innovators of the 'rent-a-lawyer' concept in that
industry. It disgusted me to overhear the tactics they used when I was in
their offices setting one thing or another up, and I reveled in
the schadenfreude when they started getting splashed with such 'stock'
FDCPA complaints and losing constantly.


On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 1:25 PM Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. <amitchell () isipp com>
wrote:

> > On Apr 24, 2020, at 5:36 PM, Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Apr 2020, Matthew Black wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone else noticed a steep decline in annoying phone calls since
> the FCC threatened legal action against three major VOIP gateways if they
> didn’t make efforts to prevent
> > > Caller ID spoofing from scammers?
> >
> > Not that it's at all on-topic for NANOG, but no.  I still get numerous
> "last chance to renew my car warranty" and whatever the scam is from the
> credit card callers per day on both my home and cell numbers.
>
> Well, while we are already engaged in the thread, some of you may be
> interested to know (especially if you find yourself with time on your hands
> these days), that you *can* actually get money from these scum.  In fact,
> it turns out that they cave pretty easily because they *know* they are
> violating the law, and they *know* what the penalties are.
>
> In fact, we wrote up how to do it (link below) and I *know* that it works
> because I just got myself $1000 out of a text message spammer!
>
> So, harass those phone spammers for fun *and* profit! ;-)  Here's the
> write-up I did, feel free to ask me any questions you may have. :-)
>
>
> https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/how-to-shake-down-robocallers-and-robotexters-for-fun-and-profit/
>
> Anne
>
> --
> Anne P. Mitchell, Attorney at Law
> Dean of Cyberlaw & Cybersecurity, Lincoln Law School
> CEO/President, SuretyMail Email Reputation Certification
> Author: Section 6 of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 (the Federal anti-spam law)
> Legislative Consultant, GDPR, CCPA (CA) & CCDPA (CO) Compliance Consultant
> Board of Directors, Denver Internet Exchange
> Former Counsel: Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS)