[asterisk-users] Caller ID Spoofing to be banned in the USA

[Bryan Laird]

On Jul 2, 2007, at 11:56 PM, Ron Stephan wrote:

>>>>> Please tell me how you can construe making a call with the the  
>>>>> CID of a number in your control to be "Misleading or inaccurate"
> <<<
>
> Sure - it goes like this - The less scrupulous among us might use a  
> spoofed cid to get people to do something they normally
> wouldn't.  Imagine a spoofed CID of your corporate headquarters and  
> somebody calling your employees saying they were HR and needed
> to confirm SSN numbers...  I will let you fill out the rest of the  
> disaster.
>
> Trouble is you don't think as evil as some people do.
>
> It annoys the hell out of me too - I would love to spoof my cell  
> CID.  I would love to have three or four cells with the same CID
> (all pointing back to my astericks box).  It seems damn near  
> impossible hear in Kalifornia.
>
>
> Ron "Elvis" Stephan
>
>
>
>

Not to not pick, but I think you went beyond what Andrew was  
saying... Misleading or inaccurate, I would read this to imply that  
I'm not miss leading you, I'm not providing inaccurate information
I am providing you with a means to contact me back.  I'm opening  
stating "who" I am and where you can reach me with no malitious  
attempt.  The "Misleading or inaccurate" part would encompass the  
scenario you
describe above.  Much the same the intention isn't to target  
corporate offices where employee's have DID's but their caller ID  
shows up as the trunk line which feeds to the building / company  
operator.  Now,
if I goto a provider and tell them my caller ID is the corporate  
number for Maytag and start calling people at 3am with is your  
refrigerator running that would count as Misleading :)


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