[Asterisk-biz] CID Spoofing

[Michael Greb]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 03:42:45PM -0400, C F wrote:
> First for Alex,
> People do it for all types of reasons, and not always for criminal
> activity. Collections is one example. If you can't get a hold of
> someone just call him with the callerID of his wife, girl friend, or
> boss, and you'll be surprised of the results.
Sure you might get them on the phone but you would be in violation of
the rules that regulate what collection agencies can and can't do to get
in contact with you.

> For Matt,
> I have tried it on SprintPCS, when/if I spoof my callerID to come up
> as my SprintPCS phone, then it will never ring to my cell phone, but
> go straight to VoiceMail, but it will NOT let me listen to my messages
> without entering the password, moreever, when calling from cell phone
> I get the please enter your password prompt, however if I call from
> the spoofed caller ID I just get the regular Voice Mail, and I have to
> press * to get the password prompt. Which makes me believe that thier
> routing is set up to check callerid thats why I end up in vm and never
> at the cell phone, while their authentication does use something
> better.
> I never tried it with other providers, but I believe they are all the
> same. AFAIK you are right about it being legal, unless you are a
> telemarketer, in which case the callerID has to ring back to you.
Telemarketer or collections agency or any other company that you owe
money.

> 
> And agian Alex is right about asking an attorney and not some joe
> shmoe on the Interweb.
Indeed. 

Michael
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