Block non-US NANP area codes - NANP != US, a real gap the design carried

Anveo Direct's "Call Security" rate-cap feature (found while evaluating
their account portal) prompted a closer look at our own NANP dialplan
pattern, which turned out to have a real gap: NANP covers Caribbean/
Atlantic nations and several US territories, not just the US - these dial
exactly like a normal 10-digit US number but bill at international/
premium rates, a well-known toll-fraud/"one-ring scam" vector precisely
because the format looks domestic. The existing _1NXXNXXXXX/_NXXNXXXXX
patterns matched all of them equally, meaning any extension (including
"full" tier) could reach premium Caribbean/territory numbers despite the
whole point of the design being "US only, no premium-rate destinations."

Verified the area code list against multiple sources rather than relying
on training-data recall alone, then added an explicit block on all 27
(Bahamas, Barbados, Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, British Virgin Islands,
US Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, Grenada, Turks & Caicos,
Jamaica, Montserrat, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, Sint
Maarten, Saint Lucia, Dominica, Saint Vincent, Puerto Rico, Dominican
Republic, Trinidad & Tobago, Saint Kitts & Nevis) - checked via REGEX()
against the extracted area code, before permission-tier checks, so it
applies regardless of tier. Tested the extraction/matching logic against
both blocked and legitimate US area codes.

Updated docs/pstn-calling-voipms-plan.md's toll-fraud reasoning, which had
previously (incorrectly) claimed NANP-only restriction alone fully closed
the cost-per-minute risk - noted as a real, live gap rather than glossing
over it. Also noted Anveo Direct's provider-side Call Security setting
(rate cap + max call duration) as a complementary backstop worth
configuring on their account portal directly, independent of this repo's
code.
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@@ -130,9 +130,20 @@ anyone notices. Two independent layers matter more than either alone:
trunk's own capabilities.
**Important nuance: these two layers bound different things, and neither
alone bounds both.** NANP-only restriction bounds *cost-per-minute* (a
compromised box can only ever reach $0.01/min US numbers, never $25/min
international/premium destinations) — that risk is fully closed. It does
alone bounds both.** NANP-only restriction bounds *cost-per-minute* — but
**NANP-only alone was not actually sufficient**, and this design carried
that gap for a while before it was caught. NANP includes Caribbean/Atlantic
nations and several US territories (Bahamas, Puerto Rico, Dominican
Republic, and 24 others) that dial exactly like a normal 10-digit US number
but bill at international/premium rates — a well-known toll-fraud/
"one-ring scam" vector specifically because the format looks domestic. The
NANP pattern match alone would have let a compromised extension reach every
one of these. **Fixed**: `services/pstn-trunk.sh` now blocks those 27 area
codes explicitly, checked before permission tier, for every extension
regardless of tier — see the dialplan file's own comment and
"Non-US NANP area codes are blocked" in its generated README for the full
list. With that fix in place, cost-per-minute risk actually is closed (a
compromised box can only ever reach genuine US-rate destinations). It does
**not** bound *how fast* the prepaid balance gets burned: nothing stops a
compromised box from opening many concurrent US-destination calls in
parallel and draining the whole balance (e.g. $15 balance ÷ $0.01/min =
@@ -165,7 +176,11 @@ separately from that hourly check.
- An outbound dialplan route matching US numbers only — **implemented**:
`_1NXXNXXXXX` (11-digit NANP with leading 1) and `_NXXNXXXXX` (10-digit,
auto-prefixed with 1), both routed to the trunk. No catch-all `_X.`
pattern.
pattern. **Also implemented**: an explicit block on the 27 NANP area
codes that aren't actually US (Caribbean/Atlantic nations + US
territories — see the toll-fraud nuance above for why this matters),
checked via `REGEX()` against the extracted area code before permission
tier, ahead of every other check.
- **Three-tier permission model — implemented**, superseding an earlier flat
allow-list design. `internal` / `restricted` / `full` per extension, read
live from `pstn-permissions.conf` via `AST_CONFIG()` rather than baked
@@ -309,7 +324,10 @@ generator output. Fixed by quoting every value in that heredoc.
1. ~~Decide: new `services/pstn-trunk.sh`...~~ Done — separate service file,
generalized to any IP-auth SIP provider (VoIP.ms is just the default).
2. ~~IP auth vs. registration~~ Done — IP authentication, no password stored.
3. ~~Exact NANP dial pattern(s)~~ Done — `_1NXXNXXXXX` / `_NXXNXXXXX`.
3. ~~Exact NANP dial pattern(s)~~ Done — `_1NXXNXXXXX` / `_NXXNXXXXX`. ~~NANP
≠ US gap~~ Done — 27 Caribbean/territory area codes explicitly blocked
(see toll-fraud nuance above); this was a real, live gap in the design
for a while, not a hypothetical.
4. ~~Inbound~~ Done — rings a configurable list of extensions (ring-group
supported), each checked live per-call against its own tier. ~~Permission
model~~ Done — superseded the original flat allow-list with a 3-tier
@@ -338,3 +356,9 @@ generator output. Fixed by quoting every value in that heredoc.
(VoIP.ms's docs mention some redundancy/failover between servers — if
inbound calls ever stop matching the `identify` section, this is the
first thing to check).
7. Anveo Direct specifically has a provider-side "Call Security" setting
(account portal, not exposed through SIP config) — a per-minute rate
cap ("block calls with rate more than $X/min, 0 = block all") and a
maximum call duration. Worth setting on any Anveo Direct account as a
provider-side backstop independent of this repo's own dialplan code —
not automatable from here since it's their web UI, not a config file.