Do Not Call registry
which has finally been introduced [again] to Canadians.
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http://tinyurl.com/4absx4
No-call registry kicks off today
Program targets telemarketers
Calgary Herald Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Family dinners may get a little more relaxing thanks to a registry kicking in today that limits the number of telemarketers who can phone your home.
Starting today, Canadians can sign up for the national Do Not Call List and get some relief from determined telephone salespeople.
The legislation will give the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission the ability to charge penalties of up to $1,500 per infraction for individuals and $15,000 for corporations that do not respect the wishes of consumers.
Ann Storla, who doesn't like telemarketers "at all," said she is eager to sign up for the list.
After being dogged by the same telemarketer all week, Storla said she's just not answering her phone anymore.
"They constantly phone you, and they phone you at hours that are just really early in the morning or really late at night and it's very annoying. I'd put myself on that list immediately."
Telemarketers have 31 days before they're required to stop dialling registered numbers.
But a major slate of exemptions from the legislation -- including registered charities, political parties, pollsters and newspapers seeking subscriptions -- take the bite out of the registry, some say.
When is a telemarketer not a telemarketer? When it's a charity, a political party, an opinion-polling firm, a newspaper or an organization that has an existing relationship with you. Those are exempt from this regulation and don't have to follow the national do-not-call list. However, each organization must administer an internal do-not-call list and respect requests to be added to them.
Foxes guarding the chicken coop: Bell, which is itself a major telemarketer, will also be made responsible for enforcement of the registry and collection of complaints. This has concerned consumer advocates, though the CRTC itself will handle the actual investigations.
The exemptions include telemarketing calls made by, or on behalf of:
* Canadian registered charities;
* Political parties, riding associations and candidates; and
* Newspapers of general circulation for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions.
Telemarketing calls from organizations with whom you have an existing business relationship are also exempt. You are considered to have an existing business relationship with a telemarketer if you:
* Purchased, leased, or rented a product or service in the last eighteen (18) months from the telemarketer;
* You have a written contract with the telemarketer for a service that is still in effect or expired within the last eighteen (18) months; and/or
* You asked a telemarketer about a product or service within the last six (6) months.
http://tinyurl.com/4fj6xd
The exemptions include telemarketing calls made by, or on behalf of:
* Canadian registered charities;
* Political parties, riding associations and candidates; and
* Newspapers of general circulation for the purpose of soliciting subscriptions.
Telemarketing calls from organizations with whom you have an existing business relationship are also exempt. You are considered to have an existing business relationship with a telemarketer if you:
* Purchased, leased, or rented a product or service in the last eighteen (18) months from the telemarketer;
* You have a written contract with the telemarketer for a service that is still in effect or expired within the last eighteen (18) months; and/or
* You asked a telemarketer about a product or service within the last six (6) months.
http://tinyurl.com/434shy
It just so happens that many of the annoying calls are from the very organizations being allowed as exceptions. I wish registrants would have the option of opting out ALL telemarketers.
http://tinyurl.com/5x3926
Do Not Call website 'victim of its own success'
Updated Tue. Sep. 30 2008 7:18 PM ET
ctvtoronto.ca
The CRTC is increasing capacity for its "Do Not Call" list website after it was overwhelmed by thousands of interested Canadians trying to block telemarketers.
The website slowed down due to the heavy traffic, but is now "slowly getting better," CRTC spokesperson Denis Carmel told ctvtoronto.ca on Tuesday.
People could access the website again after about 3 p.m., although the phone line rang busy.
The CRTC said about 223,000 people had registered for the service by about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday. More than one million people tried to access a telephone hotline to register. The site and hotline were activated at 12:01 a.m.
========DO NOT CALL DAMMIT================
http://tinyurl.com/4tspv4
The National Do Not Call List (DNCL) introduces new responsibilities for Canada’s telemarketers. If you are a telemarketer you can use this Web site to register your business information, obtain and buy a subscription to the National DNCL, and download or query the National DNCL. You can also find out about subscription rates, file formats and other information in the Telemarketer section of this Web site.
Certain portions of this Web site require that cookies be enabled for proper operation.
you can call the National DNCL Service Line to register your number by phone at 1-866-580-DNCL (1-866-580-3625)
IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO A COMPUTER.
This can be accomplished in under 10 minutes.
Number: 613-478-6221
Registration Date: October 02, 2008
Expiration Date: November 02, 2011
The Recent Phone Calls registry.
http://tinyurl.com/67ozye
Recent Phone Call Reports
This is a user supplied database of phone numbers of telemarketers, non-profit organizations, charities, political surveyors, SCAM artists, and other companies that don't leave messages, disconnect once you answer, ignore the Do-Not-Call List regulations, and simply interrupt your day.
You enter the number from your call display and sometimes information will be forthcoming about the spam calls originating from that number.
You may find a few entries by Paul MOth .. Readers of News2Few will know who that is.
http://tinyurl.com/4u9vfx
who calls me reveals 212 121 2121
THERE IS NO WAY THAT YOUR TELEPHONE COMPANY
CAN CONTROL TELEPHONE SPAM.
Sorry star 67 [*67] just does not cut it any more.
Your number can be revealed especially to hackers.
The Bell services offered are ALL ineffectual against a determined Spammer.
Call waiting feature can be used to do a combined technical and social hack which has resulted in people giving out private information over the phone line with disastrous effect.
Demand that your bank use a password which you know if they ever want to call you. They certainly do not want you calling them. They have private and unregistered incoming phone lines.
Visit your bank and demand to be given a phone number that will reach your local office with your account in it. They will give it to you eventually but unwillingly.
Here are a few legal hacks which are currently available either free or for a minimal price.
http://codegods.net/cidmage
sharpmail.co.uk
http://sharpmail.co.uk/
You can have any caller id you wish to have!
This one is in the form of a calling card.
Not free, but then nothing in this field is unless you are behind a PBX telephone network, or have a un*x computer, or have real wideband capabilities [not dsl]
http://www.engadget.com/2006/0
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1355
=== welcome to the age of computer telephony=======
Telephone Spam has been in the Computer age for a long time, and people are very very careless with their personal phones.
http://tinyurl.com/3zptnn
The basic issue, as I see it, is that once telephone calls become computer data, they can be manipulated like any other type of data.
Caller ID can be hacked in other ways too. In June 2007, Good Morning America did a story on Caller ID spoofing. That is, calling from one phone number but making it appear that you called from another number. Mitnick briefly appeared in that story which is available on YouTube.
Use the url above to See a summary of all Kevin Mitnick's Defensive Computing postings.
http://tinyurl.com/3w4a62
Private Caller Hack
Caller ID spoofing (faking your CallerID) is a very easy thing to do, especially if you have an Asterisk IP-PBX (see Nerd Vittles' how-to). While CallerID spoofing can be used for harmless pranks, it can also be used to fool customers into giving confidential information, such as their bank account or credit card info. I came across a new website called The Zero Group (TZG), which claims to offer several "interesting" services, including Caller ID spoofing, telephone "tap" (eavesdropping) detection, "BackSpoof" (*67 killer), and a real time voice changer.
=========WIKIPEDIA HAS AN OPINION AND SOME HELP=====
http://tinyurl.com/54jzet
Caller ID spoofing
From Wikipedia
Caller ID spoofing is the practice of causing the telephone network to display a number on the recipient's caller ID display which is not that of the actual originating station; the term is commonly used to describe situations in which the motivation is considered nefarious by the speaker. Just as e-mail spoofing can make it appear that a message came from any e-mail address the sender chooses, caller ID spoofing can make a call appear to have come from any phone number the caller wishes. Because of the high trust people have tended to have in the caller id system, spoofing can call the system's value into question.
Caller ID is spoofed through a variety of methods and different technology. The most popular ways of spoofing Caller ID are through the use of Voice over IP or PRI lines.
Another method of spoofing is that of emulating the Bell 202 FSK signal. This method, informally called orange boxing, uses software that generates the audio signal which is then coupled to the telephone line during the call. The object is to deceive the called party into thinking that there is an incoming call waiting call from the spoofed number, when in fact there is no new incoming call. This technique often also involves an accomplice who may provide a secondary voice to complete the illusion of a call waiting call. Because the orange box cannot truly spoof incoming caller ID prior to answer, and relies to a certain extent on the guile of the caller, it is considered as much a social engineering technique as a technical hack.
On June 27, 2007, the United States Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved and submitted to the Senate calendar S.704, a bill that would make it a crime to spoof caller ID. Dubbed the "Truth in Caller ID Act of 2007", the bill would outlaw causing "any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information" via "any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service". Law enforcement is exempted from the rule. A similar bill, HR251, was recently introduced and passed in the House of Representatives, making it a real possibility of becoming law. It has been referred to the same Senate committee that approved S.704; that committee has not yet acted on it, nor has the Senate bill been sent to the floor. [1] [2]
========== WHERE CAN I GET AN ORANGE BOX?=========
http://tinyurl.com/2shp3o
Orange box
From Wikipedia
This article is about the tool used to spoof caller ID. For the video game compilation, see The Orange Box.
An orange box is a piece of hardware or software that emulates caller ID FSK signals to spoof caller ID information on the target's caller ID terminal. It takes advantage of call waiting caller ID (also called off-hook caller ID) by mimicking the phone company's central office equipment and sending the call waiting tone followed by the audible caller ID data. An orange box can also be used to spoof the initial Caller ID information sent after an incoming call rings, if the user has direct access to the target's phone line. One proposal to accomplish this involves an orange box used in conjunction with a magenta box, which in combination is called a vermilion box.
Alternatively, in software engineering an orange box is any mechanism that record the sequence of events leading to a crash, probably by analogy to the flight data recorder (FDR) in airplanes, which is typically housed in an orange box (to ensure visibility in the wreckage after a crash). Curiously, the FDR itself is popularly (if misleadingly) known as a "black box"; possibly the term "orange box" was adopted in software engineering because "black box" already had a different meaning (see black box testing).
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