My family has been the target of a harassments campaign by a group of young teenage boys because my sibling has a small following on YouTube and for some reason these dweebs have decided to make it their life’s mission to bully my sib off the internet. Because Sib has fortified all means of communication online and is no longer reachable, the harassers have been contacting me and anyone associated with Sib by sending threatening texts and voice mails through spoofed numbers. The police are involved on Sib’s side of things, but I’m just curious how these idiots are managing to spoof their numbers to attack us daily. What’s the mechanism for this? How does it work?
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It is a failure of US government to regulate powerful telecom companies. Elsewhere telcos are responsible for making sure that the Caller ID sent via SS7 is correct. It isn’t too hard to refuse a call or SMS that has a Verizon’s Caller ID if it unexpectedly comes from a Nigerian VoIP operator. But it costs money and telcos tend not to spend a dime unless required by law and big fines are a risk.
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