You have probably received a call at odd hours of the evening, and from the accent you can tell the caller is not in your city or even country. We talk about all the good things VoIP brings to the table but today let’s talk about the dark side.

Offshore call centers are geared up to allow call center attendants to call world-wide for next to nothing providing out bound calling services for hire. I think about this every time I get a call from Dish Networks, now if only they can get the right CRM software to remove my name from their calling list as I request every time and I might have something good to say about Dish Networks.

Since SpIT can be sent to recipients with any type of voice service, it doesn’t matter if you have a VoIP system or not, no one is safe. Now, the good thing is without VoIP these offshore companies would not be able to provide low cost calling services, so essentially a whole new industry has been born because of it.

So how does someone go about blocking such calls? Well that is not as easy. The calls come over VoIP circuits to a city near you and then go out from a local number so these people have caller ID beat.