Is this even possible?

How on earth did this guy receive 25k calls on a particular phone number in 4hrs? https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/looking-to-buy-a-bot-urgent-details-inside.1049472/

I hate to do maths but ..

If every call lasts average 10 secs the max calls that number can receive in 4 hours would be 6*60*4 which is 1,440

Is there something I don't know?

DorTom said:

Someone is spamming my phone numbers in the office.

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It is phone numbers and not number.

I don't have only 1 number, I have a couple.

I'm getting around 100 calls every minute!

Weirdest said:

How on earth did this guy receive 25k calls on a particular phone number in 4hrs? https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/looking-to-buy-a-bot-urgent-details-inside.1049472/

I hate to do maths but ..

If every call lasts average 10 secs the max calls that number can receive in 4 hours would be 6*60*4 which is 1,440

Is there something I don't know?

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I think he's the one who wants to spam someone.

I think I know who is doing this, so yes, I want to do the same thing back.
Also I'm looking for a solution on how to stop this madness.

that will be one fast bot lol.

I recon that type of bot will use a lot of
phone line or virtual lines to get the out calling of the numbers.

it very possable but needs a lot of programming unless there a desktop app already on the market .

i dont think your get 25k incoming calls dont tally at all .

phoneing 1 line will be engaged if others phone while one ringing the 1 line.

phones work in order , first come first served The rest have to wait and there get a engaged tone.

redarrow said:

that will be one fast bot lol.

I recon that type of bot will use a lot of
phone line or virtual lines to get the out calling of the numbers.

it very possable but needs a lot of programming unless there a desktop app already on the market .

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None of the numbers are working.
If you call back to any of the numbers, it says the number is disconnected.

so all the numbers are all sub numbers of the main number and on some kind of ansawing machine

this is what i think .

a company buy a batch of 50k numbers .

1 main number is setup in a app to foward call from 1 of the 50k numbers , you dont see the 50k number there all set to a ansawing blank message if you phone it , if you do say anythink i guess the main number get the message ....

the app fowards from all numbers and rings you with all 50k of them , like a loop till they stop.

i think the app got stuck somewere a crash and it was your number in the loop.

only thinking out loud.

i bet it , car accedent or does bank owe you money(( defently a popular marketing advert and team))《《《《《《 .

The practice is called "call flooding", and since it's tied to the hacking category I doubt any in-depth discussion would be allowed here. Suffice to say, at only 100 calls a minute, it's nether difficult nor expensive to carry out such an attack.

Stavro said:

The practice is called "call flooding", and since it's tied to the hacking category I doubt any in-depth discussion would be allowed here. Suffice to say, at only 100 calls a minute, it's nether difficult nor expensive to carry out such an attack.

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we get it from car insurance marketing in uk 1 to 10 a day only thu.

(( call flooding ))

Stavro said:

The practice is called "call flooding", and since it's tied to the hacking category I doubt any in-depth discussion would be allowed here. Suffice to say, at only 100 calls a minute, it's nether difficult nor expensive to carry out such an attack.

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On a completely unrelated note, Stavro - hay es du?

Edvard Benk said:

On a completely unrelated note, Stavro - hay es du?

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I don't know any modern German, so I'm almost certainly not the person you're thinking of.

Stavro said:

I don't know any modern German, so I'm almost certainly not the person you're thinking of.

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Stavro is an Armenian name.. was a long shot haha

Stavro said:

The practice is called "call flooding", and since it's tied to the hacking category I doubt any in-depth discussion would be allowed here. Suffice to say, at only 100 calls a minute, it's nether difficult nor expensive to carry out such an attack.

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Asterisk PBX (free) + any cheap VOIP provider could do that with probably just one number. Simultaneous calls would use extra bandwidth not extra lines. So yeah could be scary cheap!

The question is how does he block the calls? As spoofing the number is actually spoofing caller ID not the number you can use an app for mobile that will reveal the real number and block that instead. Fixed line is harder to deal with. There are landline phones that will reject calls where callerid doesnt match the return path but thats maybe not viable as he mentions "phonelines" so is behind some kind of switchboard pbx anyway.

Best option is to contact your phone provider whether fixed line or voip. As mentioned theres a good chance all these calls are coming from one number so they should be able to block it...until they change their voip number and start again. Keep on at your phone provider in that case. Callerid spoofing is legal. Using it for flooding is a denial of service and definitely not legal in a lot of places.

Edited: to remove certain details as I just noticed the original thread has been deleted.