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Facts about Caller ID Spoofing
By qwcdirect | June 15, 2010
Many people had not known that caller id spoofing was in existence since the creation of caller id. It was mainly used for businesses with access to expensive Primary Rate Interface (PRI) and voice over IP and other methods. Caller ID spoofing is a method in which a person can cause a telephone network to display a number on the caller ID display of the recipient that is not the number of the originating caller. It is a term used in many deceptive situations with the caller having ulterior motives.
Though this is so, the method can be used for legitimate reasons too. Large companies employ this method in their call centers and telemarketing departments, private detectives and bail bondsmen use it to investigate and locate people. There are other different additional services that come with this method and some include changing voices to different pitches and tones and SMS spoofing for text messages. Caller ID spoofing is not illegal at the Federal level in the USA.
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