Have you ever heard of caller-ID spoofing? Caller-ID spoofing ( also called phone number spoofing ) involves making a phone call to a person or business through a system designed to trick their caller-ID equipment into displaying another residential or business phone number.<\/p>\n
Believe it or not, phone number spoofing is currently legal in the US. Although, the US House and Senate are working on legislation [ HR251 & S.704 ] that would make phone number spoofing a federal crime.<\/p>\n
A Google search for caller-ID spoofing returns nearly 80,000 results, including a number of websites that offer online phone number spoofing services.<\/p>\n
Network World has recently published an interview with a telecommunications worker who used phone number spoofing on a former employer, who owed him thousands of dollars in unpaid commissions. After the HR department stopped returning his phone calls, he used a chain of spoofing numbers to finally reach the CEO of the company to complain about the unpaid commissions owed to him.<\/p>\n
He even confesses to using caller-ID spoofing to spoof a White House phone number.<\/p>\n
His take on the use of phone number spoofing — “Juvenile? Yes,” Bell acknowledges. “Effective at getting past call screeners? Absolutely. Subject to horrible abuse? Totally.”<\/p>\n
For an interesting read, check out Network World’s interview with “Bell” @ Confessions of a Caller-ID Spoofer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Have you ever heard of caller-ID spoofing? Caller-ID spoofing ( also called phone number spoofing ) involves making a phone call to a person or business through a system designed to trick their caller-ID equipment into displaying another residential or business phone number. Believe it or not, phone number spoofing is currently legal in the […]<\/p>\n