The Industry Traceback Group traces scam calls hop-by-hop back to their origin — and hands regulators the intelligence to act. Now we're building this for ASEAN.
Calls and SMS are the dominant vector — and the scale is accelerating across every ASEAN member state.
Traceback doesn't capture calls or monitor networks. It asks a single question — and follows the answer backward to the source.
Intelligence without a backstop is just information. The U.S. model pairs traceback with regulatory teeth that reach any provider carrying illegal traffic.
A graduated escalation — from notice to cut-off — with strict response windows at every stage.
A network-level kill switch: remove a provider's certification and every U.S. carrier must stop accepting its calls.
Locally controlled, legally grounded domestic operations — connected across all 11 ASEAN member states, and built to interoperate with global platforms.
Traceback is a post office, not a database. Nothing is centralized. No country queries another country's data.
Traceback identifies the provider path. Customer identity follows legal process, at home — every member state keeps full control of its own customers' information. Privacy law, retention periods, data formats, and domestic procedure are answered jurisdiction by jurisdiction. The framework is the goal; the details serve it.
A scam-focused traceback program doesn't need everything at once. These are the irreducible steps — in the order that gets traffic cut off fastest.