"Quantell Research", anyone else?......

[Andy54Hawken]

As a historian...
I keep reading this thread title as :
Quantrill Research....Has me wanting to re-watch The Outlaw Joesy Wales...or re-read the novels with him in them...
Andy

 

[Certaindeaf]

Caller id and call screening are your friends. Unrecognized numbers or numbers not in my contact list go to voicemail. If it's important they leave a message. If it's something I need to deal with I provide a return call. Otherwise it goes into the bit bin.

Once I got called by my own number and inadvertently blocked the number thus effectively bricking my phone.




Lol, only the first part is true.

 

[Certaindeaf]

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I get texts from these smokin hot Chinese chicks all the time.

Usually, I amuse my self by asking for ridiculous stuff. I asked that one to sell me a cardboard aircraft carrier.

She's why wahl visited communist China what, thirty times?

 

[nammac]

Back in the day, a fellow I worked with had a real twisted sense of humor. He'd feed telemarketers numbers into this program he wrote for his pc and let his computer periodically call the numbers 24x7. He did have some success insofar as reducing those cold, unwanted calls.

 

[Mikej]

Back in the day, a fellow I worked with had a real twisted sense of humor. He'd feed telemarketers numbers into this program he wrote for his pc and let his computer periodically call the numbers 24x7. He did have some success insofar as reducing those cold, unwanted calls.

Gotta love them "Geeks" sometimes!

 

[Provincial]

Apparently, it is easy to fake a caller ID. I've received sales calls from numbers I know were not the source of the call. The phone companies should be required to have a non-hackable way to ID the true source of the call, an easy way to blacklist that number, and penalties for providing service to known bad actors.

Put Elon on the case!

 

[Stomper]

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I get texts from these smokin hot Chinese chicks all the time.

Usually, I amuse my self by asking for ridiculous stuff. I asked that one to sell me a cardboard aircraft carrier.

Hmmm.... I suspect that one is LOADED with MSG.

 

[Nosferatu]

Apparently, it is easy to fake a caller ID. I've received sales calls from numbers I know were not the source of the call. The phone companies should be required to have a non-hackable way to ID the true source of the call, an easy way to blacklist that number, and penalties for providing service to known bad actors.

Put Elon on the case!

The dialing software spoofs the number. The phone company has no control over it.

 

[Diamondback]

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I get texts from these smokin hot Chinese chicks all the time.

Usually, I amuse my self by asking for ridiculous stuff. I asked that one to sell me a cardboard aircraft carrier.

Dude, they have those on AliExpress. Assemly required, and pirated--the good ones come out of Poland and other ex-ComBloc countries like JSC, GPM, FlyModel and Halinski.

 

[Provincial]

The dialing software spoofs the number. The phone company has no control over it.

That is why I didn't specify a method of tracing the number, only to ensure that the call could be traced back to the actual source. They can do it if they try.

 

[Nosferatu]

That is why I didn't specify a method of tracing the number, only to ensure that the call could be traced back to the actual source. They can do it if they try.

They are using voip to originate the call and metadata appending using a spoofing server. It then forwards to the phone company who delivers the call. There is no trace that can be done.

They setup gazillions of these voip services and change them constantly. Getting the originating number would accomplish nothing.