“Forex” Traffic Isn’t a Vertical. It’s a Scam Profile

“Forex traffic” in wholesale voice is a euphemism for investment-fraud boiler rooms. From Kyiv to SE Asia, these operations push fake CFDs, crypto, and “managed forex” to unsuspecting victims, then double-dip with “recovery” scams. This post exposes their playbook: how they operate, their telecom fingerprints, and how carriers can detect and block this traffic without … Read more

The only telecom routing classification that matters

Why routes are defined by type × scope — and everything else is marketing noise TL;DR: In outbound telecom there are three quality types — CLI (legit caller ID), NCLI (hidden/faked caller ID / refile), and FAS (fraud / fake answer supervision) — and two scope variants — Local/National or International/Cross-border. The real taxonomy is: … Read more

Hello, World — Welcome to WTF Telecom

Where the truth about telecom finally speaks. Telecom has spent years drowning in buzzwords.“Smart routing.” “Premium TDM.” “AI optimization.” “Semi-CLI.”Every week, a new label for the same recycled product. So we built WTF Telecom — a blog with one purpose:to cut through the noise and say what everyone inside the industry already knows but never … Read more