[Tfug] OT - Telemarketing calls with fraudulent caller ID

[Stephen Hooper]

> Hmm, interesting... I was earlier thinking that what the phone network really
> needs, at the LATA level, is an implementation of a phone-equivalent BOGON
> filter. ISPs (usually) filter invalid/unassigned IP blocks at their borders,
> why doesn't the phone company?

I think the  better question would be, "Why would they?"

What do they get out of it, and who's going to pay?