AGCOM has announced a plan to force every telephone operator who works in Italy to have an anti-Spoofing filter. It may seem only a technical detail, but this filter will allow to block many of the calls that come from illegal call centers. Spoofing, specifically the Calling Line Identification Spoofing, is the technique with which the sender’s number is masked.
A compulsory filter. An automatic system to prevent you from receiving dozens of calls on our smartphone weeks related to telemarketing. AGCOM has announced that it has closed the first phase of a project to make a telephone operator for each telephone operator Anti-Spoofing filter. It may seem like a technical detail but spoofing is precisely the way in which unregistered call centers manage to multiply their calls to users.
In short. By telephone spoofing means the practice with which the telephone number from which call the call center is changed virtually in such a way as to appear as a different number. In this way the traditional filters with which we block the calls they do not work. Not only that. With the spoofing, unregistered call centers can always change the number, so that we always appear a different sender when We look at the screen of the phone. By blocking the calls in which the sender’s number has been altered, most of the call center activity that act outside the law.
AGCOM plan: “After the resolution there will be six months of time”
AGCOM is the authority for the guarantees in communications. In the press release in which he announced the arrival of the Anti-Spoofing filter He explained that the project is not an initial stage. The proposal comes after a path that began with telephone operators. The explains the Massimiliano CapitanioAgcom Commissioner: “The continuous spam calls are making millions of users impossible. The authority has completed the work of a table together with telephone operators with the aim of defining technical measures, a real technological filter, to prevent CLI Spoofing”.
How to block the numbers of telephone scams, from antispam filters to the opposition register
The term CLI-SPOOFING It refers specifically to the type of spoofing practiced. CLI is the acronym for Calling Line Identification. Times should be tight. Once the resolution is approved, telephone operators will have maximum six months To block spam calls.
