Tutorial - How to Setup Asterisk Caller ID Spoofing (to troll scammers)

This tutorial shows how to setup an Asterisk server and spoof your caller ID to whatever you'd like. It should take about 50 minutes to run through all these steps. Some of these steps take quite a long time, so I've sped up those portions of the video.

This should all be able to be done on Windows as well, since there are Windows versions of X-Lite and VirtualBox.

All of the account logins used in this video were wiped after it was recorded, so don't bother trying to use them in your own Asterisk server.

Oh, and enjoy the test call made to a tech support scammer at the end, around 35 minutes in.

Here are all the links used in the video, in the order they were used:

Here is the script for easily changing the caller ID:

[LordM]

Noyce! One of the rare times that I follow a tutorial that is kinda long (but extremely well made) and that I don't run into a single problem. Thanks a lot!

[LewissTech]

Quality tutorial, works great! thanks :)

[StefaniaCastelli]

Hello dear one, hope you're fine. 7 years is a lot of time. I tried to check the Internet for a connection with more and updated tutorials made by you.
No luck.
If someone has news about your new projects or if there's a blog with your contributions, I would be happy to know.
Thank you

[faketechscammers]

So, GoTrunk went the lame route and configured their servers to completely ignore the "callerid=" command from Asterisk. This was most likely a direct result of so many people flooding their service, or because the scamming madarchods saw this tutorial and complained to GoTrunk.

I did find another SIP trunk that has a free trial, and does not block the caller ID command from Asterisk. However, I'm not too sure if I should be posting it publicly now that they might do exactly what GoTrunk did. If I updated the tutorial to explain how to do it with another company, then for all I know the scammers would see it and complain to the new company. Then I'd have to waste another whole half a day searching for another replacement.


If the caller ID that you put in comes up, then you've found one. If the caller ID comes up, but then when you call a scammer the call doesn't go through, then that particular SIP trunk is reporting to the scammer's SIP trunk that your DID is unverified. You just move on to the next SIP trunk trial until you find one that lets you through to the scammer's phone number with a spoofed number.

So, basically I've found one that does not report DID verified status, so the scammer's SIP trunk just has no clue it's a fake number and accepts the call. Some other trunks I've tried did spoof the number when calling my cell phone, but the scammer's server denied the call because the SIP trunk sent out that it was an unverified DID. So, trust me, there are SIP trunks out there that work like GoTrunk used to, but the one I'm using now is just buried in tons of BS ad websites and shitty SIP trunk services.

Now to make "trolling scammers with caller ID spoofing - part 2"... ;)

[bushes]

literally took me 9 times to input that first one with my windows computer. I can tell this will be very fun.

[sirbookshelf]

I'm a little upset that I spent 8 hours doing this only to find out it doesn't work

[tobylarone]

Thanks for the inspiration. Didn't get this method to work because of the whole caller ID issue. But I did come up with a different method that is able to call from a random number X amount of times.

[faketechscammers]

GoTrunk has now changed their server to not obey the "CALLERID=" command from Asterisk, effectively disabling caller ID spoofing. You now need to find a different SIP trunk service to spoof the caller ID. And so the search begins... those damn madarchods just had to complain to GoTrunk.

[diesertesch]

"Failed to establish call"
But I can connect to the account with X-Lite!
And I entered the SIP information into the sip.conf file, please HELP!

[Hellsking]

when i run
asterisk -rx "core restart now"
unable to open master control file
but there is no such file in /etc/asterisk
help please

[SildaekarD]

btw, you can create a snapshot without shutting the machine down.

[franklanford]

Awsome video I'm studying this at a university. May get this set up in advanced...

[brianhargrove]

Awesome tutorial. I don't know how you stay so serious while talking to them. And your Hindi... don't know how/where you learned it, but you really get to them when you use it. Brilliant! What do you do when the "free trial" is over on GoTrunk? Just set up another with a fake email?

[aritrakundu]

Did try this yet but as an Indian I really enjoyed the end encounter. Omg it was hilarious!! Good tutorial though dude

[ChosenHawk]

lol the title of the video specifically tell what i want to do XD

[rithishjohn]

guys does it work even now.. i spent more than 9 hours to set this up bcz all the given links are changed. i successfully set the asterisk server but nothing works after that🙁

[GamingwithRAHUL-itny]

Thanks for the information . I'm working on this right now. Wish me luck

[karlnul]

At first I thought he said his name was Uncle Gelati XD

[v.gedace]

Around 3 years later: Does this still work? Lets figure it out! But first things first: VERY GREAT TUTORIAL! Thank you very much!
As expected some parts changed in the meanwhile. Like "OpenSSH server" installation, "Bria solo" instead of "X-Lite", etc.
Finally I was able to change the outgoing caller ID with the "./new_number" script, saw the change in and was able to make outbound calls.
But "Anonymous" was shown in the phone I called. A phone number (and not "Anonymous") was only shown on the called phone in case I uses the number that was assigned to the GoTrunk account (and which is displayed in the GoTrunk wizard step #6, region "Test Inbound Call").
So finally: It does not work any longer! Any ideas?

[ManchesterUrbex]

can you get in contact with me personally mine doesnt work x-lite connects to asterisk fine but it fails to establish call