New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens

New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-10-27

Web-based caller I.D. spoofing is back, and this time it's available to everyone.

New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
Lucky225 (1 replies)

It should also be noted that many credit card company's use CPN(Caller ID) as a '2-factor authentication' mechanism for card activation verification. Supposedly you have to 1) HAVE THE CARD, and 2) CALL FROM HOME. A lot of them don't even ask for any personal information to verify the legitamacy o...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
NotGreyarea

You are right,this is what the masses should know....

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
SeabH

How nice. I wonder how this can be legal. I would suppose there is some law out there that covers this activity....

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Re: harassing phone calls 2004-10-28
iago (6 replies)

"claiming he'd received harassing phone calls and a written death threat."

I can't help but wonder, did the people who called to harass him use their real phone number, or spoof their caller id?

To me, that's the main problem -- what's the stop people from using this service for harassing or...

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Re: harassing phone calls 2004-10-28
brendan (2 replies)

Well, there's nothing to prevent people from being harassing and threatening in general, so I don't think you can indemnify the service if its used that way. It would be like banning knives from kitchens on the grounds that a chef might flip out and stab people; the service has a legitimate use, an...

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Technology - worsening human life 2004-10-29
Anonymous

Most of the people authenticate phone calls and discuss critical information over phone due to many reasons(example: geographically dispersed). This technology is not helpful to people but an annoyance.

There is no point in having a caller ID hereafter if this technology proliferates. How can thi...

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Re: Re: harassing phone calls 2006-10-24
Anonymous (1 replies)

How could anything that is using deception fall under the pretense of legitamacy. This is something that should be prevented ASAP. ...

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Re: Re: Re: harassing phone calls 2007-03-18
Anonymous

Just got a prank call yesterday...

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Re: harassing phone calls 2004-10-28
Anonymous

It's much easier to stand in your doorway with a truck behind you that says "Verizon" and a nametag that says "Verizon" and fool somebody into letting you into their house and mess with their lines.

Caller ID spoofing is only really dangerous when companies use the ID as an authenticator; maybe a...

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Re: Re: harassing phone calls 2007-01-13
Anonymous

Until today I did not know anything about this. Today I get a call from a woman complaining I have been caller her for the past two weeks from what her caller ID shows.I never called her at all and now I found out about this mess. Now how do I stop someone from spoofing my phone number?...

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Re: Re: harassing phone calls 2007-05-02
Anonymous

my 80 year old mother has been recieving spoof phone calls from an individual for the past two weeks they are crude and vile and are meant to aggravate her failing health. although 'persons of interests" have been identified the police cannot trace the calls they continue and she is at their mercy...

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Re: Re: harassing phone calls 2007-05-24
Anonymous

Can someone tell me if this is illegal? The phone company says it IS illegal. Just by coincidence, I got a call from my "13 year old son" as I was frantically searching for him. Turns out it was someone that I did not want to talk to at the moment, and I was very shaken. (I did find my missing so...

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Re: Re: harassing phone calls 2008-01-03
Anonymous (2 replies)

well...harassing and threatening people is already a crime. unless the website promoting their service has the slogan, "come harass people today" then they shouldnt be liable for what the customer does with the service which im sure is included in the terms of use. so is it bad? it depends on whos u...

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Re: Re: Re: harassing phone calls 2008-02-10
Anonymous

I received a spoofed 13 digit phone call and the person returned my call with my new cell phone number that must have shown up on their caller ID.They hung up!...

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RE: Annonymous 2008-11-08
David

Yes, I believe if you go and read their Terms Of Service(TOS, that it says somewhere in there that the service can't or shouldn't be used for harassing or illicit reasons or intent....

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
Jeffrey Clark <jclark525 (at) adelphia (dot) net [email concealed]> (1 replies)

How in the world this isn't considered fraudulent on the basis of Identification, is beyond my thoughts. ...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
Anonymous

Because the telcos give the ability and option to change the caller-id at will. If they had a concern about liabilities they wouldn't let anybody and their grandmother have free access to this type of system; they'd manage it themselves, changing it to only specific names and numbers per outgoing li...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
Anonymous (4 replies)

It would be curious to also spoof the emergency services. Could one spoof the number and fool 911 to respond to an emergency at a residence or other location?...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
natas (1 replies)

You can't spoof to 911 services or anything, and people need to realize this. The reason being is that they actually get your billing telephone number, known as ANI, and not just your CallerID/CPN. And if your calling from a cell phone they may be getting your pseudeo-ANI from the cell tower your on...

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Re: New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2009-03-31
Anonymous

You are mistaken. 911 spoofing has been done many times. I'm a 911 operator and we just had it done today....

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
Anonymous

No. Whatever carrier this site is using to complete their calls, has (if they provide 911 service) their own E911 trunks and the call technically should go out on those trunks, so it wouldn't be hard for the PSAP to determine this 911 call is coming from "the call spoofing company"....

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
JTWebMan

See thats just proff that common people don't need access to our little tricks....

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
Anonymous

Supposedly no. IIRC, 911 was able to trace calls long before caller-id became widely used. Not to mention government agencies....

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-28
NotGreyarea

HAH I can spoof cpn for less than 0.0002 cents for however long I want to call.If I want the call to last 8 hours well damn it,it will only cost me 0.0002 cents.Noobs beware dont buy into any of this crap.Go get a iax provider,then the easiest way is to get a softphone google "iaxcomm" or "DIAX" an...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-29
Eyes0cket

You could totally spoof someones home phone number and say you are calling from somewhere inside the house, hehe, like in a horror movie...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-29
Anonymous (1 replies)

No ones really said anything about the other site, Telespoof.com, but it say's that they offer international caller id spoofing as well. They cater only to business professionals apparently, same as Star38. Atleast they look professional, unlike camophone....

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Re: New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2005-07-24
Anonymous

We looked at both and Camophone is over 50% less cost. We use Camophone because it works and is less expensive. Both cater to any body that signs up (Telespoof wants $20 sign up fee, Camophone wants $5 with NO start up fee). Since our clients do not see the service, we do not care which "looks" m...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-30
Virtual_Circuit

I find it funny how people flip out when they read these articles yet this is old, people have been doing this for a long time its no new technique all that is new is that it is being offered to the general populus. Though i do think this could be dangerious i also do not think many people out ther...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-31
callerspoof (at) ankh.morp (dot) org [email concealed]

Another implication of bringing spoofed CallerID to the public - getting VoIP access, using someone else's account.

I sure know lot of companies that offer post-paid international/long-distance VoIP service, where the CallerID is the only thing used for authentication and accounting. Such PIN-fre...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-10-31
Anonymous (2 replies)

So what everyone is saying is caller ID is worthless and a waste of money, since you can't depend on it being accurate. The phone companies should be required to notify you of this before subscribing to the service.

Is it absolutely impossible for the telephone companies to prevent and/or fix...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-11-02
Lucky225 (1 replies)

Telemarketers will not abuse this, I'm tired of seeing the misconception. Telemarketers WERE abusing this in the past using older Caller ID spoofing techniques which prompted legislatures to create a federal law that requires telemarketers to pass a name and number associated with their company tha...

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Re: New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2008-04-02
Jennifer Cannon

Telemarketers abuse everything, most of them don't exactly operate within the law-they bend it a little. Telemarketers are generally shady and unscrupulous. They're calling for the sole purpose of annoying you. I can't see why they should have privacy rights.

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-11-03
Anonymous

It's pretty much impossible to fix. The reason is that anyone who has a trunk line, e.g. a T1 PRI, has, and it should be noted, has always had, the ability to set their caller id to whatever they want. Better yet, they have also always had the ability to read caller id even from those who have blo...

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WHOIS Camophone Owner? 2004-11-01
Lucky225 (1 replies)

Does anyone know the true name / telephone of developer / owner of camophone.com? If you don't then how would you go about finding it?...

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WHOIS Camophone Owner? 2004-11-02
Lucky225

No, but I'd appreciate you not posting as me kthx....

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-11-01
Anonymous (1 replies)

I understand the current security issues with Caller-ID, and I feel camophone.com isn't doing anything wrong by offering this service. If it wasn't them it would be someone else, and they're actually offering a benefit by letting people know there's an issue that needs to be dealt with.

But I al...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2004-11-04
Lance James

Caller-ID is a feature, not an authentication method. ANI would stand a better chance for authentication, and I don't understand why 800 numbers fall back on ANI as a last resort, utilizing CID/CPN first.

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2006-10-12
Anonymous

There are tons of other caller I.D. spoofing services now. Plus, you can do it yourself with linux.

http://www.gadgettrail.com/2005/01/06/do-it-yourself-caller-id-spoofing/

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beware of them returning your messages! 2007-05-08
meesha25 (at) aol (dot) com [email concealed]

I have t-mobile, and a collection agency has been calling my phone and accessing my voicemail. they can listen to my messages because they are calling from my number, and my vm did not require a password. They were then taking the names and numbers of people who called me, and called them back!!! ...

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If your worried read this first 2007-07-12
Anonymous

The legal reasons why spoofing is good, and the benefits outweigh a few bad apples! This is eplained here in full detail (at epic)

http://www.epic.org/privacy/iei/s704test.pdf

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2007-07-31
Anonymous

I am a victim of Caller ID spoofing, as a senior woman this is a scary ...

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2007-08-06
Anonymous

There needs to be a law passed that makes spoofing illegal. It is another tool a stalker can use to harass their victim and it should be banned....

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2007-12-18
Anonymous

debtors have gotten into my cell phone book and have disguised their calls with th caller ids of my often received calls from friends, can this be legal?...

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camocard for $8 bucks 2008-02-21
Jon

I would also try www.camocard.com , it's a caller id spoofing calling card not a phone service and I like it a lot. Most of them just change the number but I like this card because it shows the caller id name as well. just my two cents....

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New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2009-02-07
Anonymous (1 replies)

This spoofing need to stop . I get about 30 calls a day from the same # and i am sure it is a ex of my sons father . There needs to be a law that is is NOT leagal at all ...

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Re: New Caller I.D. spoofing site opens 2009-04-05
Joseph Libuszowski

If you have the phone number that is calling you, I would contact your local Telco's fraud department after you file a Police report. Indeed 30 calls from the same number is Illegal and harassment. More than likely, these individuals are using one of three consumer versions of these services, so if...

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