[Freeswitch-users] Tracking down calls with spoofed Caller ID

[Chad Phillips]

This question isn’t directly related to FreeSWITCH, and, I’m curious what
others in this community have learned about dealing with incoming ‘spam’
phone calls…

For many months now I’ve been getting travel-related spam phone calls to my
personal cell. I figured the caller ID was spoofed, so would just hang up,
but a few days ago I decided to call one of the numbers back to see what
would happen.

A woman answered, and I asked her to remove me from their call list, to
which she angrily responded “no, you are the one who has been calling me,
and I’ve contacted the police!”

It was then that I realized the spammers were using caller ID numbers of
other people they were spamming…as if this industry could get any slimier.

I would love to bust these jerks, but I’m not sure it’s even possible to
trace the origins of these calls. It seems futile to block incoming calls
based on caller ID, because they change all the time.

How do the telephony bad-asses in this community handle such shenanigans?

Chad
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