---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <8b577b45-2b7c-4206-9eab-5aa2aba74890o@googlegroups.com> Date: 17 Aug 2020 12:41:10 -0700 From: HAncock-4 <withheld@teleco-digest.org.invalid> Subject: Re: TN: AT&T Text "Unsuccessful Payment" Scam Hits Robertson County On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 12:58:00 PM UTC-4, Moderator wrote: > Robertson County Tennessee: (Smokey Barn News) - An AT&T phishing text > scam is moving its way through the 615 area code. > > https://smokeybarn.com/att-text-unsuccessful-payment-scam-hits-robertson-county/ There are many robocall-based phising scams going on. Criminals are claiming to be Amazon, Chase Bank, a power utility and a pharmacy service, among others. They record greetings from the real outfits to sound real. We really need a much tighter number identifier control system, as well as aggressive enforcement of fraud laws. ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200818175125.GA8746@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:51:25 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Alleged Privacy Law Violations Create Potential $5 Billion Issue For Google by Brian H. Lam In a proposed class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Google is facing a potential $5 billion dollar class action for alleged privacy law violations. The complaint alleges that millions of Google users have been impacted and asks for damages of at least $5,000 per harmed individual. Implicated are multiple Google offerings, including Google Analytics, Google Ad Manager, website plug-ins, and the Google Sign-In button leveraged by many websites. The ubiquity of these products and services is well known to many who participate in the online ecosystem. According to the complaint, over 70% of online websites and publishers use Google Analytics alone. https://tinyurl.com/y2o39bvx -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200818204104.GA9053@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 20:41:04 +0000 From: Bill Horne <malQassimRilaMtion@gmail.com> Subject: Re: TN: AT&T Text "Unsuccessful Payment" Scam Hits Robertson County On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 12:41:10PM -0700, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > On Monday, August 17, 2020 at 12:58:00 PM UTC-4, Moderator wrote: > > Robertson County Tennessee: (Smokey Barn News) - An AT&T phishing text > > scam is moving its way through the 615 area code. > > https://smokeybarn.com/att-text-unsuccessful-payment-scam-hits-robertson-county/ > > There are many robocall-based phising scams going on. > Criminals are claiming to be Amazon, Chase Bank, a > power utility and a pharmacy service, among others. > They record greetings from the real outfits to sound real. > > We really need a much tighter number identifier control > system, as well as aggressive enforcement of fraud > laws. The reason we get forged "from" numbers on our caller-id's is the same reason we get spam in our emails: both the called-id system and the Internet's email system were designed by techies. I've said this before, but it bears repeating: technical workers have a tendency toward tunnel vision. Given a problem to solve, we often put on blinders that block out everything except the path to the problem's solution. On the one hand, that gives us a very productive work habit which is much sought-after by employers. On the other hand, it leaves us with little appreciation for the larger world in which our designs will be put to use. We get spam and forged caller-id because the people who designed the email and telephone systems were working with a world-view that did not allow for bad actors - it never occurred to them to anticipate that someone would break the rules for commercial gain, nor to we users to measure potential benefits against what are now obvious negatives. Caller-id and similar "value-added" features come with hidden costs, which are paid by the users, and it's long-past time that we all decided if the benefits are worth it. Bill -- Bill Horne (Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly) ------------------------------ Message-ID: <004f01d675d2$3c4b5440$b4e1fcc0$@nc.rr.com> Date: 18 Aug 2020 22:41:26 -0400 From: "Bob Goudreau" <BobGoudreau@nc.rr.com> Subject: A whole lot of NPAs will be dropping support for 7-digit dialing over the next two years According to https://nationalnanpa.com/enas/npaDialingPlansReport.do, almost half (162 out of 330) of the geographic area codes in the US currently allow some or all local calls to be dialed using only 7 digits. The remainder require local calls to be dialed using 10 digits, or 1+10D in certain parts of a trio of non-conformist states (CA, IL, NY). The number of places that support 7D dialing has been shrinking for over two decades, as geographic splits of area codes have fallen out of favor and overlays have become the standard way to add numbering capacity to areas. But this shift away from 7D dialing is going to take a huge leap over the next two years, because 83 out of those 162 codes that currently support 7D will be forced to mandate 10D (or 1+10D) local dialing even if they have no plans to add an overlay area code. The impetus for this change is FCC Order 20-100, which was adopted last month to approve a new 3-digit code (988) for the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. Unlike previous 3D codes, which are of the form N11, 988 would introduce landline ambiguity in places where 988 is a valid local exchange and 7D dialing is supported - is someone dialing the hotline (988) or just a local 988-XXXX number? Resolving that ambiguity with timeouts would be inefficient and error-prone, so the FCC decided to resolve it by forcing all US area codes which allow 7D dialing but contain 988-XXXX numbers to migrate to 10D (or 1+10D) dialing by July 15, 2022. (See https://nationalnanpa.com/pdf/PL_544.pdf for details.) NPAs which don't happen to have a 988 exchange are unaffected by this disruption, though of course they would still need to eliminate 7D dialing if they were overlaid with a second area code. But the list of affected NPAs includes some unlikely suspects - sparsely-populated single-NPA states such as Alaska, Montana, Vermont and both Dakotas will have to discontinue 7D dialing. Even the tiny US territory of Guam (population less than 169,000) will be forced to join the 10D club. After this change is complete in mid-2022, at least 251 of the geographic area codes in the US will require 10D or 1+10D dialing for local calls, leaving at most 79 NPAs which allow 7D. For comparison, Canada is already further along the path to abolition: only 6 of its 41 geographic area codes currently support 7D dialing. In the remainder of the North American Numbering Plan (Atlantic and Caribbean islands), 7D dialing is still the norm (17 NPAs) and only 4 NPAs require 10D dialing. Bob Goudreau Cary, NC (in the 919/984 overlay) ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 19 Aug 2020