MSNBC/NYT: Caller ID Forging [telecom]

[Quote from MSNBC]

Caller ID has been celebrated as a defense against unwelcome phone pitches. But it is backfiring. Telemarketers increasingly are disguising their real identities and phone numbers to provoke people to pick up the phone. "Humane Soc." may not be the Humane Society. And [do you] think the I.R.S. is on the line? Think again.

Caller ID, in other words, is becoming fake ID.

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Posted 5 years ago by HAncock4 in General Telecommunications Forum

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