home phone hacked?

Post #390,343 by rcareaga 6/5/14 3:16:18 PM Reply	home phone hacked? My office phone rings. The call is for my spouse in her capacity as an officer of the court. "[Spouse] can be reached at area code-three digit prefix-four number suffix," I advise the caller. "That's the number I called," comes the reply. I take the contact particulars, and call the spouse. Conversation lasts 30 seconds (long enough for her to verify that she's never assigned my phone as a rollover) and then terminates with a series of audible clicks. I hang up; call back. LCD on my phone displays message: "Most expensive route" and does not connect. We went to ATT-based digital voice a couple of years ago. I wonder whether someone is essaying mischief. Has anyone heard anything in this line? cordially,
Post #390,349 by folkert 6/5/14 4:06:25 PM Reply	It is Voice over IP And Since you probably have a "uPNP" router that auto sends stuff to your VOIP phone... since one of my employees has one and can;t figure out to only allow connection from our VOIP provider and never direct connections... It is tough. Trust me, all it take is a person with a rouge Asterisk install and a couple of "land lines" or equivalent... and an internet connection... and voila they can do all kinds of social engineering. No, you phone wasn't hijacked before you did you did your calling out. Next time it happens, because it will. If you answer the phone and then hang up, you really didn't hang up, unplug power from the phone. Or use your cell phone to do the checking and or call the phone with your cell. If you establish another connection or break the existing connection... it resets. They could have gotten you to local forward a very expensive call for you. This is one of those things were I hate these "phone services" provided by AT&T and Comcast and other non-phone carrier service phone services. Needless to say, get a new phone from AT&T or have them update the firmware on the phone to restrict inbound direct calling. (More than likely they'll have to send you a new one... especially if you have one of notoriously really cheap phones they use. -- greg@gregfolkert.net "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Post #390,367 by rcareaga 6/5/14 6:05:49 PM Reply	separate issues, it turns out I don't know how it happened that a call dialed to my home number rolled over to here, but apparently the "most expensive route" error message has been afflicting users all through this building today. cordially,
Post #390,374 by boxley 6/5/14 8:05:30 PM Reply	it may be "most expensive route" error message is a borqued upstream router config Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 59 years. meep

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