Subject: [stir] ITU blog: Countering The Upsurge In Numbering Fraud

From: Dan York <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:54:36 +0000

Going back to  Brian's definition of WHY we need secure origin identification in IP communications, we've been talking mostly of the FCC's concerns around robocalling, phishing, etc., but other countries are voicing similar concerns - and here is an ITU blog post out today on the general topic:

http://itu4u.wordpress.com/2013/06/21/countering-the-upsurge-in-numbering-fraud/

Note: "at a recent ITU workshop on origin identification and alternative calling procedures, Ghana indicated that studies had found about 25% of the country’s incoming traffic to be affected by SIM-box fraud and the suppression or spoofing of CLI (Calling Line Identification)."

Dan

P.S. And yes, I do realize that the ITU blog post also gets into other bigger call routing issues that would not necessarily be solved by the issues that we are working on here.