VOIP Spam Detector from NEC

NEC has developed a Spam detector to be using a computer to determine whether a caller is human or a machine. This sounds similar to Skype Lie detector released by skype some months back.

NEC will debut its new SPIT (spam over Internet telephony) blocker, called VoIP SEAL, at the 3GSM congress in Barcelona in February. The company has given few details of its workings other than to say that it uses a three stage approach to detect and block SPIT calls. I will give you some insider news on 3GSM. Thanks in advance to Georgina Firth ( A regular visitor & Friend), who will be visiting 3GSM conference, Hopefully :-)

The news says - Calls arising from spam-generating-software and calls from real individuals are separated by a Turing test. Before connecting the call, VoIP SEAL detects and blocks the unauthorised access based on the communication pattern observed during a call.

Although, NEC indicated that this might not be a commercial product so soon. So maybe users like us might have to wait for another year or so to have some good filter on unwanted VOIP calls.