What with all the misleading and fraudulently posted Caller-ID signs on the one hand (000-000-0000 or 800-421-0000 or your very own phone number, etc.), which of course results from the phone companies' unwillingness to ensure only valid information is transmitted as Caller-ID data, and the ILECs' and CLECs' insistence on charging extra ($5 to $10, or even more) for transmitting those very likely phony phone numbers to a subscriber, how long, I must wonder, before there's a class action law suit against the phone companies for recovery of fraudulently collected Caller-ID fees (along with penalty, perhaps)?
The newest vish*, it seems, is malefactors' transmitting, as Caller-ID data, the names and matching central inbound phone numbers of major US banks: cf.
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