Is there a product that spoofs Caller ID?
Q. Is there a product that spoofs Caller ID? A business, stalker, or con man might use it to disguise their real number.
A. It's more a service. You sign up, your calls are routed through their equipment, and the people you dial see a fake number. It's a bad thing and let's hope the FCC kills it.
Emergency dispatcher Smarty Jones comments, "We get calls from people who get outbound call center calls with 'pseudo' phone numbers and area codes not in use. Even MBNA, the second largest credit card company in the world, uses a fake area code. We get complaints for 'harassment' from people and it's MBNA and the same fake area code and number. Ninety-nine percent of the time the person is into them for tens of thousands and even hundreds of thosands of dollars and in arrears. So MBNA and others use this tactic to get to the debtor, right, wrong or indifferent. But after the 23rd time the called person figures it out and then calls law enforcement for 'harassment.' If we do a little bit of homework we find that the reportee actually is close to being a fraudster or actually is one. Amazing how criminals will call the police for help.