Re: Falsified caller IDs (was Re: [ot] Busted a telemarketer!)
"Berny" <[email protected]> Tue, 16 May 2006 12:14:03 -0500
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"Kenneth Brody" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... SNIP > What I'd like to know is how they convinced the telco to pass false > caller ID data to the recipient. (I sometimes get "999-999-9999".) Well I can't answer that question, but when my wife or daughter call with skype from the Middle East, it registers as 000 123-4567 on the CNID. And I keep hearing it is trivial to fake the CNID,, which is apparently what most FAX spammers do.