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There are some PSTN gateway providers that you can basically makeup your outgoing CID on. Les.net used to let me do that for example - no validation.

Twilio is doing their own enforcement to help their reputation.



These gateway providers, in addition to simply spoofing the outgoing number, will also sell blocks of legitimate domestic numbers to the scammers- knowingly- to use for callback numbers. Truly disgusting

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/district-court-enters-permane...


Yea, I wasn't tryna call anyone out, there are legit use-case and I like Twilio approach and yet, it's so easy so fake a CID :(




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