On Sat, 17 Apr 2021, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
> Anecdotal: With the prior consent of the DID holders, I have successfully
> ported peoples' numbers using nothing more than a JPG scan of a signature
> that looks like an illegible 150 dpi black and white blob, pasted in an
> image editor on top of a generic looking 'phone bill'.
All carriers should independently verify any LOAs received for account
changes.
Documents received from third-parties, without independently verifying
with the customer of record, using the carriers own records, are just junk
papers.
Almost no carriers verify LOAs by contacting the customer of record.
Worse, they call the phone number on the letterhead provide by the scammer
for "verification."
The U.S. Postal Service used to let random people change mail forwarding
orders, without verifying with the original and new addresses. As you can
guess, there were lots of fake forwarding orders and criminal activity.
After USPS begin verifying mail forwarding orders by sending a letter to
the ORIGINAL address and NEW address, mail forwarding fraud declined. Not
zero, but declined.
> Anecdotal: With the prior consent of the DID holders, I have successfully
> ported peoples' numbers using nothing more than a JPG scan of a signature
> that looks like an illegible 150 dpi black and white blob, pasted in an
> image editor on top of a generic looking 'phone bill'.
All carriers should independently verify any LOAs received for account
changes.
Documents received from third-parties, without independently verifying
with the customer of record, using the carriers own records, are just junk
papers.
Almost no carriers verify LOAs by contacting the customer of record.
Worse, they call the phone number on the letterhead provide by the scammer
for "verification."
The U.S. Postal Service used to let random people change mail forwarding
orders, without verifying with the original and new addresses. As you can
guess, there were lots of fake forwarding orders and criminal activity.
After USPS begin verifying mail forwarding orders by sending a letter to
the ORIGINAL address and NEW address, mail forwarding fraud declined. Not
zero, but declined.