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"we now have to be in the business of maintaining a list of authorized CIDs we can send on a specific trunk line"

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Similarly, some ISPs have implemented egress filtering to reduce abuse. At least a few speedbumps in the way of total anonymity over the phone would make scamming less trivial.




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