How People Can Fake Caller ID Numbers

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Caller ID spoofing has been around nearly as long as caller ID. Originally caller ID spoofing was innocent, and still is in some cases. Many larger businesses would use a form of caller ID spoofing to make it appear that all phone calls were coming from the same main phone number. Even today it is common for companies with more than one line to have the main number show up no matter what line is called from. In addition, many business cell phones are set up so that a call made from that cell phone will show up as coming from the main business line. This is simply to prevent confusion on the part of the customer.

It did not take long for other people to realize the potential for spoofing their phone numbers. Soon private investigators began using the same technology. It was not long before law enforcement officers and collection agencies began using it as well.

How Easy is it to Spoof Your Phone Number?

Caller ID spoofing is still going on. With no laws in place to prevent caller ID spoofing everyone from large businesses to the local kids making prank phone calls can spoof their phone number to hide their identity.

Anyone with access to a telephone can spoof their phone number. In addition there are a variety of online sites that you can visit and enter your the telephone number you want to spoof as well as the one that you want to call, and be connected. This is a relatively simple process, particularly for people using Voice Over IP technology (VOIP).

While there are no laws currently on the books to prevent caller ID spoofing that may all change soon. With increased concerns over privacy, as well as Americans increasing frustration with telemarketing calls, the chances of a federal law placing severe limits in this technology increases. In fact both the House and the Senate have bills currently on their desks that would restrict the use of caller ID spoofing to law enforcement officials.

While some cases of caller ID spoofing is totally harmless, such as a company using one number for all of its phone lines, and some cases of caller ID spoofing are merely annoying, such as calls from telemarketers or political committees, there are times when caller ID spoofing is frightening.

The idea of being anonymous brings out the worst in some people, and caller ID allows just that. There have been a variety of caller ID spooking incidents that involve prank or obscene phone calls, with the caller ID spoofed, either to remain anonymous or to make it appear that the call is coming from someone else. In other cases, Caller ID spoofing has been used to call for police or other emergency personnel where they were not needed.

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[fortunecookiesucks]

There is on the internet, a bunch of trolls. Now they persecute people. And these trolls have found someone, somewhere, who has engineered a set of software that allows them to dial telephones, anywhere in the country, and put in as the caller ID any particular telephone number they want to. Now, the telephone company knows about this, and the federal government knows about this, to the point where they've even given it a name called "SPOOFING". S P O O F I N G.

[shooterzden]

Why don't you just tell America that all the protection the Government offers, is only a lie to keep your people in order?

Why don't you tell them that the criminals are better at it then they will ever be?

[grandtheftchampion]

lol thtas it. put the link in the description lol

[pspheaven]

high tech.... lolz!!!

[Paperclown]

RoyalsChamp5 is illegal ! go back to mexico !

[qiman2]

oh, whatever. LANDCASTER!? come on! amishland?

[Edline94]

is it legal or illegal i dont get it

[RoyalsChamp5]

Why are they showing people this?

Illegal!