Should Caller ID Spoofing be Illegal?

Author: mbc at 17-01-2012, 23:58, Views: 66

Would you you like to spy on your wife’s bank account to see what she's been up to? Would you like to spy on the phone conversations your husband has been having by looking into his voicemail service? Would you like to steal your neighbor’s Social Security number or perhaps his credit card number? Well then, all you need is caller ID spoofing. You just need to Google for such a service, pay $10 for an hour of spoofing and then pretend to be calling from just any phone number your little heart desires. How exactly will that get you into other peoples voicemail services and their bank accounts, you ask?

Well, that's a service that the friendly folks at major banks like Bank of America and Chase and major phone services have for you. If they receive a call from the phone numbers they have on their records, they think that it's the account holder calling and they offer just about every scrap of information it's possible for anyone to want. They can tell the caller about what motel a charge was made at, what adult video store a product was purchased at and so on.

Category: Legal » Identity Theft