SHAKEN/STIR Shakes Up Robodialers
Why this is GOOD NEWS for skip tracing.
December 30, 2019, was the day that Congress finally stood up for the American people and enacted the TRACED Act (Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence Act). SHAKEN/STIR is another set of acronyms that stands for Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs/Secure Telephone Identity Revisited, and is the tech behind making this beautiful thing work. SHAKEN/STIR is directed at the misuse of robo-dialers to commit fraud against unsuspecting phone owners.
The act gives the deadline of June 30, 2021, for telcos to be in full compliance with updating phone account owner information in the Line Information Database. Most robo-dialers have wrong numbers because they deliberately delete the verified phone number in the program. So when you return a call to a random phone number you’ll hear it’s disconnected even though you’ve just received the call moments before. Many carriers such as Tmobile stopped updating this information citing privacy concerns. VoIP, mobile, landline, and possibly toll-free numbers as well will be so much easier to bust.
This is excellent news for skip tracing efforts on getting the caller ID name and address information on a number whereas there was nothing to be found before. I’ve already tested my phone lines on three major telcos and our VoIP vendor and they…
