Do you have bill collectors that call you all the time, harassing you, yelling at you, using profanity, screaming, calling your mother or your father and screaming at them, abusing your friends at work.
caller ID spoofing is the practice of faking the origin header of a call to make it appear that the phone call is from someone other than the actual caller.
Who is at fault, the telemarketers, and scam artists, or the phone company.
Because I really want to know, when you get phone calls from people who are intent on committing fraud, by faking their caller ID data, (by the way its a federal crime to do this) Why are not we protected from this thread that costs billions of dollars per year paid for mostly by the elderly.
After all is it not the phone company that is allowing these calls to take place in the first place?
There are now companies that are getting hauled into court, because of the illegal practice of spoofing data transmitted across state lines, commonly known as caller ID.
Telemarketers have been spoofing Caller ID information in attempts to subvert and or commit fraud by wire line.
Yet, for the most part Telephone providers and or companies have done nothing to prevent this practice.
So, for you hungry lawyers out there, heads up because this is a big new story, if local telephone companies and larger regional companies are not doing everything they could be doing to prevent fraud by spoofed caller ID then this could be a great new revenue opening for the near future.
