Fake caller ID: Fun, Legal and Easy
Note: He is right, you can't trust caller ID these days. I do know that is someone sends no caller ID then I don't answer. It's usually a telemarketer or some congressmen trying to give me an award for donating money to there party or associations. In our current environment I am not sure how long that will last. If you are trying to get in touch with your local press try changing it to some major organization's ID and see if your call gets picked up faster? I bet it would.
He cited some legislation that was put through in 2007 and is currently stuck in the Senate. "The law would outlaw causing "any caller identification service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller identification information" via "any telecommunications service or IP-enabled voice service." Law enforcement is exempt from the rule."
Here is an excerpt from the article:
"Caller ID information is not to be trusted. Judging by the reactions I've gotten from colleagues and friends recently after they've been the victims of spoofed-ID demonstrations, it's not common knowledge that caller ID information, primarily the phone number that often appears on the recipient's telephone display, can be easily faked. Best of all for the mysterious caller, it's not illegal in the U.S. (except in cases where fraud occurs). Calls for the purpose of amusement or revenge are perfectly legal."
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