Re: Falsified caller IDs (was Re: [ot] Busted a telemarketer!)

"Mike Easter" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Berny wrote:
>
> > And I keep hearing it is trivial to fake the CNID,, which is
> > apparently what most FAX spammers do.
>
> Which is one of the things that the FCC uses to treble damages and fines
> for the junxers when they /do/ get nailed.
>
> It is also often interpreted by the courts to which junxers are taken by
> the junxees to allow trebling the allowable 'damages' which the
> plaintiff is granted from $500 per junx to $1500.
>
> Where junx = junk fax, just like spam = ub junk email.
>
> -- 
> Mike Easter
> kibitzer, not SC admin
>

Question, Short of asking for a pen register on their line, which requires a
court order*,  how does the common citizen determine the junx sender in
order to sue?

*(AFAIK and IANAL)