[conspire] (forw) Re: Email( spoofing)

[paulz at ieee.org]

 I figured if Caller ID said "Unavailable", it probably wasn't anyone I knew or wanted to talk to, but they kept calling all afternoon.  
    On Friday, August 19, 2022 at 04:56:17 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:  
 
 Quoting Paul Zander (paulz at ieee.org):

> A bogus email is less annoying than spam phone calls.  A week or two
> ago, I received 8 phone calls all from "unavailable".  All left voice
> mail saying it was Amazon calling about an order for an iPhone.  Press
> #1 to confirm; Press #2 if I didn't place the order.

tl;dr:  Incoming voice calls (and CallerID[1]) are unauthenticated.
Everything else flows naturally from that.

[1] The IETF SHAKEN/STIRRED auth. protocols should remediate this
partially, as it gets rolled out, but CallerID still should not be
relied upon.


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