“There,” he said, pointing. “A redirect rule. Not at your phone. Not at Comcast’s consumer gateway. At the core routing level. This is carrier-grade fraud, Clara. Someone has a key to the kingdom.” Clara did something most people wouldn’t. She didn’t call Comcast’s 1-800 number—she knew that line was compromised. Instead, she drove to the local Comcast store, waited forty-five minutes in a plastic chair, and asked for the store manager, a woman named Denise.
But one missed call stood out. It was from her bank’s fraud department, timestamped 2:15 PM that same day. Urgent: Suspicious login from unknown device. Please call us. comcast block calls
The effect was surgical. For a subset of numbers in the 412 area code—Clara’s, her sister’s, her boss’s—the switch began silently forwarding all inbound calls to a dead-end VoIP server in a strip mall in Delaware. Outbound calls still worked. The victims never knew. “There,” he said, pointing